Theory for Theatre Studies: Bodies
Seiten
2021
Methuen Drama (Verlag)
978-1-4742-4631-6 (ISBN)
Methuen Drama (Verlag)
978-1-4742-4631-6 (ISBN)
How does theatre shape the body and perceptions of it? How do bodies on stage challenge audience assumptions about material evidence and the truth? Theory for Theatre Studies: Bodies responds to these questions by examining how theatre participates in and informs theories of the body in performance, race, queer, disability, trans, gender, and new media studies.
Throughout the 20th century, theories of the body have shifted from understanding the body as irrefutable material evidence of race, sex, and gender, to a social construction constituted in language. In the same period, theatre has struggled with representing ideas through live bodies while calling into question assumptions about the body.
This volume demonstrates how theatre contributes to understanding the historical, contemporary and burgeoning theories of the body. It explores how theories of the body inform debates about labor conditions and spatial configurations. Theatre allows performers to shift an audience’s understandings of the shape of the bodies on stage, possibly producing a reflexive dynamic for consideration of bodies offstage as well. In addition, casting choices in the theatre, most recently and popularly in Hamilton, question how certain bodies are “cast” in social, historical, and philosophical roles. Through an analysis of contemporary case studies, including The Balcony, Angels in America, and Father Comes Home from the Wars, this volume examines how the theatre theorizes bodies. Online resources are also available to accompany this book.
Throughout the 20th century, theories of the body have shifted from understanding the body as irrefutable material evidence of race, sex, and gender, to a social construction constituted in language. In the same period, theatre has struggled with representing ideas through live bodies while calling into question assumptions about the body.
This volume demonstrates how theatre contributes to understanding the historical, contemporary and burgeoning theories of the body. It explores how theories of the body inform debates about labor conditions and spatial configurations. Theatre allows performers to shift an audience’s understandings of the shape of the bodies on stage, possibly producing a reflexive dynamic for consideration of bodies offstage as well. In addition, casting choices in the theatre, most recently and popularly in Hamilton, question how certain bodies are “cast” in social, historical, and philosophical roles. Through an analysis of contemporary case studies, including The Balcony, Angels in America, and Father Comes Home from the Wars, this volume examines how the theatre theorizes bodies. Online resources are also available to accompany this book.
Soyica Colbert is a Professor of African American Studies and Theater and Performance Studies at Georgetown University. She is the author of The African American Theatrical Body: Reception, Performance and the Stage and Black Movements: Performance and Cultural Politics. Colbert co-edited The Psychic Hold of Slavery. She is currently working on two books projects, a monograph, “Becoming Free: An Intellectual Biography of Lorraine Hansberry,” and a co-edited collection, Race and Performance After Repetition.
Series Preface
Acknowledgements
Bodies: An Introduction
Section One: Historical Approaches to Theatre Theory
Section Two: Extended Case Studies
Section Three: Porous Bodies: New Interpretations
References
Further Reading
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 08.10.2021 |
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Reihe/Serie | Theory for Theatre Studies |
Mitarbeit |
Herausgeber (Serie): Kim Solga, Susan Bennett |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 129 x 198 mm |
Gewicht | 198 g |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4742-4631-1 / 1474246311 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4742-4631-6 / 9781474246316 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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