Ron J. Popenhagen (Professor of Visual Culture and Cal Performance

Gebundenes Buch

Modernist Disguise

Masquerade in Modern Performance and Visual Culture

Beschreibung

This book highlights that masquerade can be regarded as a distinct genre of performance activity that employs elements of the carnivalesque, circus, dance, gestural theatre and theatre of objects.

Autor

Ron J. Popenhagen is Professor of Visual Culture and Performance at California State University. He formerly lectured in Theatre at the University of Southern California and the Sydney University Conservatorium of Music. Dr Popenhagen is a specialist in Actor-Training, Mise en scène, Masks and Masquerade. He has published on French and Swiss actors, choreographers, directors, playwrights and scenographers, and also on Irish literature. Popenhagen has staged opera and theatre productions of Cocteau, Ionesco, Molière, Shakespeare and Wilde in Australia and the States. He has toured devised theatre projects to festivals in Adelaide, Ankara, Edinburgh, Houston, Los Angeles, Vancouver and Vilnius. Ron has written, devised and directed theatre projects for the Australian Theatre for Young People and toured 'Informances' for Young Audiences, Inc. to American cities.

Produktdetails

• Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernism, Drama and Performance
• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 163mm x 240mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 556g
• ISBN-13: 9781474470056
• ISBN-10: 147447005X
• Artikelnr.: 59910299