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Theory for Theatre Studies: Bodies (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,029
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Theory for Theatre Studies: Bodies (Hardcover): Soyica Diggs Colbert

Theory for Theatre Studies: Bodies (Hardcover)

Soyica Diggs Colbert; Series edited by Kim Solga, Susan Bennett

Series: Theory for Theatre Studies

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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.

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Imprint: Methuen Drama
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Theory for Theatre Studies
Release date: October 2021
Authors: Soyica Diggs Colbert
Series editors: Kim Solga (Professor of Theatre Studies) • Susan Bennett
Dimensions: 198 x 129mm (L x W)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards / With dust jacket
Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 978-1-4742-4632-3
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory
Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Theatre, drama > General
Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900 > Art styles, 1960 - > Performance art
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LSN: 1-4742-4632-X
Barcode: 9781474246323

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