This work explores the themes of colonial encounters and postcolonial contests over identity, power and culture through the prism of theatre. The author examines the work of prominent Nigerian and British playwrights who came of age after the passing of the British Empire. Defining theatre as a symbolic interpretation of social reality, the conventions of which generate and sustain cultural power, this book examines the colonial and postcolonial forms of such power in Britain and Nigeria in the latter half of the 20th century.
This work explores the themes of colonial encounters and postcolonial contests over identity, power and culture through the prism of theatre. The auth...
The first book in the field to explore the links between theories of globalization and surveillance, bipower and biopolitics, performance and theatre, computer arts and politics, "The Politics of New Media Theatre" is an investigation into the political role played by the new media theatre. Gabriella Giannachi explores how new media arts constitute themselves as a radical political movement, and presents an analysis of both the role of virtuality in radical performance and politics in virtual and mixed reality practices. This outstanding new work offers an analysis of leading political,...
The first book in the field to explore the links between theories of globalization and surveillance, bipower and biopolitics, performance and theat...
Theatre and Performance in Digital Culture examines the recent history of advanced technologies, including new media, virtual environments, weapons systems and medical innovation, and considers how theatre, performance and culture at large have evolved within those systems.
The book examines the two Iraq wars, 9/11 and the War on Terror through the lens of performance studies, and, drawing on the writings of Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou and Martin Heidegger, alongside the dramas of Beckett, Genet and Shakespeare, and the theatre of the Kantor, Foreman, Societas Raffaello Sanzio and the...
Theatre and Performance in Digital Culture examines the recent history of advanced technologies, including new media, virtual environments, weapons...
Ritual today can be encountered in the midst of catastrophic and transforming events. This collection reassesses and revises traditionally understood relationships between ritual and politics, ritual and everyday life, ritual and art making, and ritual and disaster. The methodologies as well as the subject matter are interdisciplinary: they range from the anthropological to the art and dance historical, from the theatrical and literary to the linguistic, philosophical, and psychoanalytic. It will be a valuable tool for scholars of Theater and Performance Studies, as well as Anthropology,...
Ritual today can be encountered in the midst of catastrophic and transforming events. This collection reassesses and revises traditionally understo...
This anthology is the first of its kind. In addition to opening up fresh perspectives on theatre studies a " with applications for dramatic criticism, performance analysis, acting practice, audience response, theatre history, and other important areas a " the book sets the agenda for future work, helping to map the emergence of this new approach.
Following a comprehensive introduction, the contributors examine:
the interfaces between cognitive studies and Lacanian psychoanalysis, phenomenology and communication theory
different ideas from cognitive studies that open up...
This anthology is the first of its kind. In addition to opening up fresh perspectives on theatre studies a " with applications for dramatic critici...
This book is the first substantial account of contemporary theatre s fixation with the processing and detection of evidence. Since the mid-1990s, across diverse branches of theatrical performance, truth has increasingly been figured in terms of means rather than ends, with procedures for the gathering of information becoming the focus of attention. This overarching turn to the forensic has been obscured by the critical tendency to treat genres discretely. Frieze reconsiders landmark works that have been used to constitute dominant genres, such as Blast Theory s Desert Rain...
This book is the first substantial account of contemporary theatre s fixation with the processing and detection of evidence. Since the mid-1990s, a...
