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Staging Technology - Medium, Machinery, and Modern Drama (Hardcover)
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Staging Technology - Medium, Machinery, and Modern Drama (Hardcover)
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Through an examination of a range of performance works ranging from
Jean Cocteau's ballet The Eiffel Tower Wedding Party (1921) to
Julie Taymor's monumental production of Spider-Man: Turn off the
Dark (2010) and Mexican playwright Isaac Gomez's La Ruta(2018),
Staging Technology asks what becomes visible when we encounter
plays, operas, and musicals that are themselves about fraught
human/machine interfaces. What can theatrical production tell us
about the way technology functions as an element of ideology and
power in narrative drama? About the limits of the human? Staging
Technology bridges the divide between the technical practices of
theatre production and critical, theoretical approaches to
interpreting drama to examine the way dramatic theatre's
technologies are shaped by larger historical, ideological, and
economic forces. At the same time, it examines how those
technologies themselves have influenced 20th and 21st-century
playwrights', composers', and librettists' choice of subject matter
for staged representation. Examining performance works from the
modernist and post-modern European and American canon of drama,
opera, and performance art including works by Eugene Ionesco,
Samuel Beckett, Heiner Muller, Sophie Treadwell, Harold Pinter,
Tristan Tzara, Jean Cocteau, Arthur Miller, Robert Pinsky, John
Adams and Alice Goodman, Staging Technology transforms how we think
about the interrelationship between theatre practice, performance,
narrative drama, and text. In it Craig N. Owens synthesizes
approaches to interpretation and practice from disparate realms,
offering insights into over-arching ways of making meaning that are
illustrated through focused and innovative readings of individual
works for the dramatic stage. Staging Technology provides a new and
transformative paradigm for thinking about dramatic literature, the
practices of representational theatre production, and the
historical and social contexts they inhabit.
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