Amy Petersen Jensen

Theatre in a Media Culture

Production, Performance and Perception Since 1970

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

As the media have increasingly become the lens through which we see the world, media styles have shaped even the fine arts, and contemporary theatre is particularly indebted to mass media's dramatic influence. In order to stay culturally and financially viable, theatre producers have associated theatrical productions and their promotion with film, television, and the Internet by adopting new theatrical practices that mirror the form and content of mass communication. This work demonstrates how mediatization, or the adoption of the semantics and the contexts of mass media, has changed the way American theatre is produced, performed, and perceived. Early chapters use works like Robert Wilson's 3D digital opera Monsters of Grace and Thecla Schophorst's digitally animated Bodymaps to demonstrate the shifting nature of live performance. Critical analysis of the interaction between the live performer and digital technology demonstrates that the use of media technology has challenged and changed traditional notions of dramatic performance. Subsequent discussion sustains the argument that theatre has reconfigured itself to access the economic and cultural power of the media. Final chapters consider the extent to which mediatization undermines theatrical authorship and creativity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. März 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 377g
• ISBN-13: 9780786428779
• ISBN-10: 0786428775
• Artikelnr.: 22577369

Autorenporträt

Amy Petersen Jensen is an assistant professor in the Department of Theatre and Media Arts at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Introduction     
1. The Mediatized Stage: Theatre, Visual Culture, and Presence     
2. Theatre's New Visual Literacy: Production and Reception in a Mediatized
Culture     
3. Theatrical Space in Mass-Media Culture     
4. Nostalgia as Theatrical Presence and Commodity     
5. Media as an Overt Presence in Theatrical Text and Production     
6. Media and the Performing Body     
7. Theatre and the Grammar of Media Technology     
8. Reality and Spectatorship     
Conclusion: Towards Hybridity     
Appendix A: Media Conglomerates in Theatre Production     
Appendix B: Media Based Musicals     
Bibliography     
Index