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Theatre in a media culture : production, performance and perception since 1970 / Amy Petersen Jensen.

Title
Theatre in a media culture : production, performance and perception since 1970 / Amy Petersen Jensen.
Author
Jensen, Amy Petersen, 1967-
Publication
Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c2007.

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Description
v, 221 p.; 23 cm.
Summary
"Works like Wilson's 3D digital opera Monsters of Grace and Schophorst's digitally animated Bodymaps demonstrate shifting nature of live performance. Critiques how use of media technology has challenged and changed traditional dramatic performance, how theatre has reconfigured itself to access the economic and cultural power of the media, and the extent to which mediatization undermines theatrical creativity"--Provided by publisher.
Subject
Mass media and theater
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-218) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The mediatized stage: theatre, visual culture, and presence -- Theatre's new visual literacy: production and reception in a mediatized culture -- Theatrical space in mass-media culture -- Nostalgia as theatrical presence and commodity -- Media as an overt presence in theatrical text and production -- Media and the performing body -- Theatre and the grammar of media technology -- Reality and spectatorship.
ISBN
  • 9780786428779 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0786428775 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2006102459
OCLC
77520621
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library