Ron J. Popenhagen

Modernist Disguise (eBook, ePUB)

Masquerade in Modern Performance and Visual Culture

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Analyses the expansion of head and body masking from nineteenth-century Paris to its international maturity in contemporary cultureLooks at the presence and development of masquerade in the modernist era - via performance history - with parallel references to theatricality and performativity in visual arts and visual cultureComments upon masquerade's foundation in popular performance throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, frequently alluding to significant images from the history of photographyTheorises masquerade within the context of European theatre and drama scholarship, as well as British and European conservatory arts and performance trainingEmploys critical thinking influenced by phenomenological and semiotic analyses of performanceThis 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. Popenhagen traces artistic disguising from fin de siecle Pierrots in Paris, Marseille and Vienna to early twentieth--century masquerading in Moscow and Zurich. He explores identity play and display through the complementary lenses of image studies, cultural history and performance theory.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474470087
• Artikelnr.: 72421290

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Impressions of the Covered Body
2. Facing Change and Changing Masks
3. Re-formed and Uni-formed Bodies
4. Feigned and Distorted Bodyscapes
5. Actor-Effigies and Photo-Portraits
6. Fractured and Effaced Façades
7. Other Places
Bibliography
Index.