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The fifteen original essays in "Staging Philosophy "make useful
connections between the discipline of philosophy and the fields of
theater and performance and use these insights to develop new
theories about theater. Each of the contributors--leading scholars
in the fields of performance and philosophy--breaks new ground,
presents new arguments, and offers new theories that will pave the
way for future scholarship.
The fifteen original essays in "Staging Philosophy "make useful
connections between the discipline of philosophy and the fields of
theater and performance and use these insights to develop new
theories about theater. Each of the contributors--leading scholars
in the fields of performance and philosophy--breaks new ground,
presents new arguments, and offers new theories that will pave the
way for future scholarship.
This volume collects original essays on Hungarian-German playwright and screenwriter George Tabori (1914-2007) and his remarkable contributions to the stage. Tabori, a Jewish refugee and a truly transnational author, was best known for his work in New York theater that irreverently explored the Jewish experience, particularly the Holocaust. Although his illustrious career spanned a century, two continents, several languages, and a variety of literary genres, Tabori's work has received scant attention in American letters, in spite of its significance for U.S. theater and Holocaust studies. Until Tabori, most dramas about the Holocaust were either rooted in American domestic realism, striving to create a strong empathetic connection between the audience and Holocaust victims, or featured an unembellished documentary style. Tabori staked out a third position, beyond realism and documentation. The volume brings together the voices of international scholars to provide a comprehensive introduction to Tabori's theater as well as in-depth analyses of his work, discussing all of his major plays. Individual essays address Tabori's postdramatic theater in relation to sacrificial ritual, performance studies, and post-humanist approaches to the contemporary stage, as well as performance aspects of his productions, questions of ethics and aesthetics raised by his theater, and his plays' relation to Holocaust representation in popular culture.
This timely collaboration by three prominent scholars of media-based performance presents a new model for understanding and analysing theatre and performance created and experienced where time-based, live events, and mediated technologies converge-particularly those works conceived and performed explicitly within the context of contemporary digital culture. Performance and Media introduces readers to the complexity of these performances and helps them understand and contextualize the work. Each author provides a different model for how best to approach this work, and invites readers to develop their own critical frameworks, i.e., taxonomies, to analyse both past and emerging performances. Performance and Media capitalizes on the advantages of digital media and online collaborations, while simultaneously creating a responsive and integrated resource for research, scholarship, and teaching. Unlike other monographs or edited collections, this book presents the concept of multiple taxonomies as a model for criticism in a dynamic and rapidly changing field.
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