"Taking a fresh approach to the study of live theatre broadcasting, this book focuses on National Theatre Live a decade after its launch in 2009. It embeds livecasting in its historical context of 19th-century electrophone technology, assesses its position in contemporary discourse on the meaning of theatre for spectators, in a pre- and post-pandemic moment, and points towards its future. Heidi Liedke navigates between an interdisciplinary range of 20th- and 21st-century theorists from the fields of cultural studies, theatre studies and performance philosophy. Combining lively analyses of…mehr
"Taking a fresh approach to the study of live theatre broadcasting, this book focuses on National Theatre Live a decade after its launch in 2009. It embeds livecasting in its historical context of 19th-century electrophone technology, assesses its position in contemporary discourse on the meaning of theatre for spectators, in a pre- and post-pandemic moment, and points towards its future. Heidi Liedke navigates between an interdisciplinary range of 20th- and 21st-century theorists from the fields of cultural studies, theatre studies and performance philosophy. Combining lively analyses of recent theatre performances with auto-ethnographic accounts, she turns to 20th-century thinkers such as Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht in order to understand livecasting's position in a continuum of developments taking place on the borders of media, film and performance for the past 100 years. Locating livecasting on the conceptual tripod of spectacle, materiality and engagement, Livecasting in Twenty-First Century British Theatre asks what role audiences and their engagement play in livecasting. These conceptual threads are illustrated by in-depth analyses of recent NT Live shows, such as A Midsummer Night's Dream (2019), Antony and Cleopatra (2018) and Small Island (2019) and complemented by insights from practitioners involved in the making of the livecasts. Finally, livecasting is contextualized within recently emerged forms of Covidian (virtual) theatre during the pandemic in order to offer some thoughts on the future of the genre of theatrical performance"--Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Heidi Lucja Liedke is Interim Professor in English Literature at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. From 2018-2020 she was a Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London, UK. She is the co-editor of a special issue of Theatre Research International on "Presence, Politics, Resistance: Tendencies in (Post-)Pandemic Performance and Theatre" (March 2023). Her work has been published in Performance Matters (2019), Journal of Contemporary Drama in English (2021) and Participations (2021). Twitter: @heidilulie
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List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction: Locating Livecasting - Twenty-First Century British Theatre on the Threshold Locating Livecasting Constructing the Live Distractions, Slippages and Turns: Spectacle - Archive Research Overview Aims and Structure of the Book Part I: Spectacle and Materiality Chapter 1. Old New Media: The Optionality of the Theatre Space and Different Forms of Embodiment in Early Live Theatre and Music Broadcasting Early Broadcasting Technologies as Substitutes Acousmatic Livecasting in the Nineteenth Century: Visual Landscapes Not A Substitute for the Real Thing - The NT's Dip Into Broadcasting in the 1940s and 1950s The Launch of NT Live Then and Now: The Fifth Auditorium Chapter 2. Watching Others Having Fun - Livecasting as Spectacle The Best of British Theatre Spectacle and Theatre on Screens - Images and Deception Sports Events, Spectacle and NT Live Framing Livecasting: Mediated Spectacle and Communitas Livecasting as Affective Spectacle: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Bridge Theatre/NT Live) Chapter 3. Capturing the Atmosphere: The Material-Theatrical A Word on Wires, Screens and Electricians from a Brechtian Perspective Theatrical and Cinematic Modes - Filmed Theatre Spatially Extended Atmospheres: The Materiality of the Theatrical Space Shifts Making the Theatrical Experience Porous: Stuttering Screens PART II: Engagement Chapter 4. Livecasting, Liveness, and the Feeling I Spectator-Centric Theatre and Modes of Engagement with Livecasts Livecasts, Liveness and "We" Bakhtinian and Benjaminian Traces-Fabrics of Engagement I Feel, Therefore I am (a Spectator) Chapter 5. Quasi-Experts in the Context of Livecasting Immediacy and Afterlife Quasi-Experts at Work: Liveness and After-Liveness Enabled by Social Media We Are In It Together: Critiquing the Experience Online Against a Stagnation of Theatre Chapter 6. Covidian Theatre: The Move to Small Screens and into Homes Masks and Socially Distanced Theatre Viral Affect on Screens Covidian Theatre Retrospective Synchronicity and NT At Home Chapter 7. Concluding Discussion and Future Directions: What Remains of Livecasting? Responsible Responsiveness and Liveness What Remains of Livecasting? Works Cited Index
List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction: Locating Livecasting - Twenty-First Century British Theatre on the Threshold Locating Livecasting Constructing the Live Distractions, Slippages and Turns: Spectacle - Archive Research Overview Aims and Structure of the Book Part I: Spectacle and Materiality Chapter 1. Old New Media: The Optionality of the Theatre Space and Different Forms of Embodiment in Early Live Theatre and Music Broadcasting Early Broadcasting Technologies as Substitutes Acousmatic Livecasting in the Nineteenth Century: Visual Landscapes Not A Substitute for the Real Thing - The NT's Dip Into Broadcasting in the 1940s and 1950s The Launch of NT Live Then and Now: The Fifth Auditorium Chapter 2. Watching Others Having Fun - Livecasting as Spectacle The Best of British Theatre Spectacle and Theatre on Screens - Images and Deception Sports Events, Spectacle and NT Live Framing Livecasting: Mediated Spectacle and Communitas Livecasting as Affective Spectacle: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Bridge Theatre/NT Live) Chapter 3. Capturing the Atmosphere: The Material-Theatrical A Word on Wires, Screens and Electricians from a Brechtian Perspective Theatrical and Cinematic Modes - Filmed Theatre Spatially Extended Atmospheres: The Materiality of the Theatrical Space Shifts Making the Theatrical Experience Porous: Stuttering Screens PART II: Engagement Chapter 4. Livecasting, Liveness, and the Feeling I Spectator-Centric Theatre and Modes of Engagement with Livecasts Livecasts, Liveness and "We" Bakhtinian and Benjaminian Traces-Fabrics of Engagement I Feel, Therefore I am (a Spectator) Chapter 5. Quasi-Experts in the Context of Livecasting Immediacy and Afterlife Quasi-Experts at Work: Liveness and After-Liveness Enabled by Social Media We Are In It Together: Critiquing the Experience Online Against a Stagnation of Theatre Chapter 6. Covidian Theatre: The Move to Small Screens and into Homes Masks and Socially Distanced Theatre Viral Affect on Screens Covidian Theatre Retrospective Synchronicity and NT At Home Chapter 7. Concluding Discussion and Future Directions: What Remains of Livecasting? Responsible Responsiveness and Liveness What Remains of Livecasting? Works Cited Index
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