The Dubious Spectacle: Extremities of Theater, 1976-2000U of Minnesota Press, 01.01.2002 - 347 Seiten Spanning a quarter of a century, the essays in this book rehearse, in the movement of memory and cross-reflection, an extensive career in theater. The work of Herbert Blau--his directing, writing, and criticism--has been a determining force during this period as theater encounters theory. |
Im Buch
Ergebnisse 1-5 von 79
Seite ix
... less the often foregone conclusions in the heuristics of cultural studies or—in the ethnographic consciousness now prominent in the field—the more predictable liminalities of performance studies. Now that it is pretty much orthodoxy to ...
... less the often foregone conclusions in the heuristics of cultural studies or—in the ethnographic consciousness now prominent in the field—the more predictable liminalities of performance studies. Now that it is pretty much orthodoxy to ...
Seite x
... less fantasy of subversion through permutations of theory: from the uncathected notion of a libidinal economy without reserve through the “phantasmaphysics” of amniotic desiring machines to the current investment in “bodies that matter ...
... less fantasy of subversion through permutations of theory: from the uncathected notion of a libidinal economy without reserve through the “phantasmaphysics” of amniotic desiring machines to the current investment in “bodies that matter ...
Seite xviii
... less vanity is still being struggled against . At that specific historical moment , when the key word was “ relevance , ” 10 the anti - drama of Beckett and the deri- sive spectacles of Genet seemed even more germane than the plays of ...
... less vanity is still being struggled against . At that specific historical moment , when the key word was “ relevance , ” 10 the anti - drama of Beckett and the deri- sive spectacles of Genet seemed even more germane than the plays of ...
Seite xxi
... less how to teach it , were being put to the test in an unprecedented venture endowed ( few could believe it then ) by the late Walt Disney : the creation of California Institute of the Arts , a combination of the Bauhaus and Black ...
... less how to teach it , were being put to the test in an unprecedented venture endowed ( few could believe it then ) by the late Walt Disney : the creation of California Institute of the Arts , a combination of the Bauhaus and Black ...
Seite 2
... less reali- ty depending on your perspective or, for that matter, your critical view of perspective with its notorious vanishing point. For there we encounter the liability, even the vice, of representation, implicating the theater in ...
... less reali- ty depending on your perspective or, for that matter, your critical view of perspective with its notorious vanishing point. For there we encounter the liability, even the vice, of representation, implicating the theater in ...
Inhalt
1 | |
2 The Impossible Takes a Little Time | 18 |
3 Spacing Out in the American Theater | 37 |
Rehearsing the Resistance | 53 |
5 A Dove in My Chimney | 62 |
An Analytic Scenario | 70 |
The Grail of the Voice | 118 |
Chills and Fever Mourning and the Vanities of the Sublime | 132 |
13 Readymade Desire | 199 |
From Tango Palace to Mud | 206 |
The Group Idea and Its Legacy | 215 |
New Music and Theater | 230 |
17 FlatOut Vision | 246 |
Sovereign Pleasure and the Baroque Subject in the Tragicomedies of John Fletcher | 265 |
Revising the Abyss | 281 |
The Insane Root | 307 |
9 The Dubious Spectacle of Collective Identity | 137 |
Subtext of a Syllabus for the Arts in America | 157 |
Educating the American Theater | 181 |
12 The Pipe Dreams of ONeill in the Age of Deconstruction | 189 |
Notes | 321 |
Previous Publications | 335 |
Index | 337 |
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
The Dubious Spectacle: Extremities of Theater, 1976-2000 Herbert Blau Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2002 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
acting actors aesthetic American theater appearance Artaud artists Atget audience avant-garde Barthes Baudrillard Beckett Bertolt Brecht body Brecht Broadway Bunraku Cal Arts conception critique culture dead deconstruction Denise desire drama dream emotion essay fantasy Ghost Group Group Theater Hamlet happened Herbert Blau Humorous Lieutenant idea ideological illusion imagination Impossible Theater Isidore issue Jack Jules Irving kind King Lear KRAKEN less look madness Margaret matter meaning memory mind modern moving myth never O’Neill performance Peter photograph play politics postmodern production question regional theaters rehearsal representation Richard Foreman ritual Roland Barthes San Francisco scene seems sense sequence sixties social sort sound space speak spectacle stage Stelarc structure sure T. S. Eliot thea theatrical theory thing thought tion trans truth voice Waiting for Godot words Workshop wrote York