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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Weber, Samuel, 1940- Theatricality as medium. New York : Fordham University Press, 2004 (OCoLC)607294846 |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Samuel Weber |
ISBN: | 0823224155 9780823224159 0823224163 9780823224166 |
OCLC Number: | 56591201 |
Description: | xiv, 408 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Introduction: theatricality as medium -- Theatrocracy; or surviving the break -- Technics, theatricality, installation -- Scene and screen: electronic media and theatricality / -- Antigone's Nomos -- The place of death: Oedipus at Colonus -- Storming the work: allegory and theatricality in Benjamin's Origin of the German Mourning Play -- "Ibi et ubique": the incontinent plot (Hamlet) -- Kierkegaard's Posse -- After the end: Adorno -- Psychoanalysis and theatricality -- "The virtual reality of Theater": Antonin Artaud -- Double take: acting and writing in Genet's "The strange word Urb" -- "Being ... and eXistenZ": some preliminary considerations on theatricality in film -- "War," "Terrorism," and "spectacle": on towers and caves -- Stages and plots: theatricality after September 11, 2001. |
Responsibility: | Samuel Weber. |
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"With his customary wit and an acupuncturist's knack for exerting philosophical pressure on the most banal formulae of consumer society ('home theater,' 'casting,' 'the commercial break,' 'Stay with us!'), Sam Weber outlines a reading of theater as a place, a juncture, never fully inhabited or vacated by its great theorists (as varied as Plato, Sophocles, Kierkegaard, and Benjamin). The transition from 'theater' to 'media' is made by an excavation of long-submerged metaphors and a recovery of the many meanings of 'acting.' Sharp, dramatic in its own right, and rich in implications, this book is entirely 'in character.'"- -- -Haun Saussy Yale University "Theatricality as Medium is one of those rare and necessary books that seem-but just seem-to appear out of nowhere, to challenge the habits of thougt and dispel intellectual cliches in the fields of performance and theatre studies." -The Drama Review Read more...


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