In the first collection of its kind, Timothy Murray brings together
writing by leading French thinkers on the political effects of
theatricality on theater, film, literature, philosophy, and
psychoanalysis. In addition to recently translated work by Cixous
and Deleuze, the collection features English translations of essays
by Althusser, Derrida, Durand, Fanon, Feral, Foucault, Girard,
Green, Irigaray, Kristeva, Lacoue-Labarthe, Lyotard, and Marin.
Mimesis, Masochism, & Mime provides a welcome theoretical
contribution to recent theories of performance and to the
development of French cultural studies. Its emphasis on the
politics of theatricality lends unprecedented focus to French
theorizations of the body, gender, sight, screen, voice,
territoriality, otherness, and diversity. In so doing, the volume
provides an intellectual context and theoretical blueprint for
future work in the cultural study of mimesis, masochism, and mime.
The collection highlights the importance of theatricality to the
theory and practice of aesthetics as well as to French debates over
patriarchy, absolutism, and metaphysics. In turn, wide-ranging
analyses provide a range of approaches to the politics of identity,
feminism, marginality, and postcoloniality. Timothy Murray's
introduction makes clear the theoretical context of the volume, and
situates the book in relation to recent Anglo-American debates over
realism, multiculturalism, and identity politics. The contributors
are especially helpful in linking varying political accounts of
ideology, philosophy, and psychoanalysis to historical and
contemporary work in performance, film, and video. Astute
commentaries on Sophocles, Shakespeare, and Artaud arecombined with
fascinating analyses of more recent mixed-media performance, from
the European stage (Duras, Theatre du Soleil, Bene, and Strehler),
to the site of North American performance (Snow, Mabou Mines,
Wilson, and Rainer). Mimesis, Masochism, & Mime provides a
stunning account of the political importance of theatricality to
contemporary French thought and will be welcomed by readers in
French studies, theory, theater, cultural studies, film, women's
studies, aesthetics, and psychoanalysis. The essays . . .are
judiciously chosen, accurately justified, wide in range within the
dispensation of post-structuralist thought--that is, they touch on
everything from the question of origins to the libidinal economy of
performance to post- Brechtian staging to the ineliminable shadow
play of tragedy through its ideological demystification by
schizoanalysis to feminism in the theater. --Herbert Blau,
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Timothy Murray is Professor of
English at Cornell University and former Editor of Theatre Journal.
He is the author of Theatrical Legitimation: Allegories of Genius
in Seventeenth-Century England and France and Like a Film:
Ideological Fantasy on Screen, Camera, and Canvas.
General
Imprint: |
The University of Michigan Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Theater: Theory/Text/Performance |
Release date: |
June 1997 |
First published: |
August 1997 |
Authors: |
Timothy Murray
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Dimensions: |
234 x 154 x 18mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
320 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-472-06635-3 |
Categories: |
Books >
Arts & Architecture >
General
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LSN: |
0-472-06635-8 |
Barcode: |
9780472066353 |
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