Theatricality and the Arts
Film, Theatre, Art
1st Edition
Published on 30. April 2024
320 pages
978-1-3995-1167-4 (ISBN)
Description
Theatricality and the Arts presents a series of investigations of the notion of 'theatricality'. Primarily, theatricality concerns that which pertains to theatre, but the term has always carried with it the potentially pejorative associations of exaggeration and fakery. The essays here question and contest such associations. The book is divided into four sections which together provide a comprehensive interrogation of theatricality. The four sections begin with multimedia, where theatricality is examined in relation to mixed modes of media (internet art, painting, performance and digital display). A second section takes a philosophical approach to questions of theatricality. A third section looks at art, broadly speaking, but also at the historical contexts of art, photography and other media (literature, film, music). A final section features reflections on theatre and cinema, often in conjunction. Considered as a whole, the collection contributes to debates on theatricality in various fields, while also enabling a cross-examination of approaches to the topic.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
6 black and white illustrations, 1 black and white table
File size
9,51 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-3995-1167-4 (9781399511674)
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04/2024
Edinburgh University Press
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Content
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction: Questioning Theatricality
- PART 1: MULTIMEDIA
- 1 Staging Night Watch: Theatricality and Scenes of Crime in Peter Greenaway's Screen Adaption of Rembrandt's Painting
- 2 Theatricalising Absorption and Networked Hyper-Theatricality
- 3 Theatricality and Dissonance: Frictions in Contemporary Networked Performance Practices
- 4 Meta-Theatricality, Hypermediacy and Theatricality in the Making of Never Swim Alone
- PART 2: PHILOSOPHY
- 5 Display in Human Art and the Aesthetic Lives of Animals: On the Limits of Evolutionary Aesthetics
- 6 Against Experience: Theatre is Not Life (Or Theatre in the Age of Third Nature)
- 7 Theatre Against Itself: Performance, Politics and the Limits of Theatricality
- PART 3: ART/THEATRE/PHOTOGRAPHY/SOUND
- 8 Between Lies and Truth Lies the Truth: Staged Mythologies in Damien Hirst's Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable
- 9 Owning the (Female) Experience: Theatricality, Writing and Translation in Literature, Theatre and Cinema
- 10 Performance, Photography, Theatricality and Citationality: Theatricality as a Mode of Performing Citation in the Still Photographic Image
- 11 Music, Miles Davis and Theatricality
- PART 4: THEATRE AND CINEMA
- 12 Metaphoric Theatricality: Theatricality as a Weapon of Resistance: The Production of Our Grand Circus in 1973
- 13 Theatricalising Sci-Fi: Theatre and the Multiverse in Mouse: The Persistence of an Unlikely Thought (Daniel Kitson, 2016) and Constellations (Nick Payne, 2012)
- 14 The Interconnectedness between Melodrama and Theatricality in Pedro Almodóvar's The Skin I Live In (2011) and Nelson Rodrigues' Woman without Sin (1941)
- 15 Popular Theatricality in Spike Lee
- Bibliography
- Index
