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Performing television : contemporary drama and the media culture
- Title
- Performing television : contemporary drama and the media culture / Elizabeth Klaver.
- Author
- Klaver, Elizabeth.
- Publication
- Bowling Green, OH : Bowling Green State University Popular Press, ©2000.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | PN1992.65 .K59 2000 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- ix, 145 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Is it possible today to understand current genres such as drama and theater without considering the influence of television? Elizabeth Klaver argues that television's dominance of the entertainment industry demands a continual negotiation of subject position from all other cultural forms and institutions. By examining plays that incorporate televisual discourse - from cameras and monitors to televisual style and structure - Performing Television probes the turbulent relation contemporary drama has had to television and its negotiations for identity in a postmodern media culture." "Klaver applies post-structuralist theories of subjectivity to drama while ranging through Beckett's plays, National Hockey League games, The Tonight Show, gay and lesbian drama, minority drama, avant-garde performance, and the topics of theatrical paranoia, the mediatized Imaginary, and the spectatorial gaze. By navigating the political minefield of television sex and violence, Klaver shows how drama can subvert those ideologies that would discipline the performance arts."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 1. A Question of Subjectivity -- 2. The Mediatized Imaginary and the Critical Subject Position -- 3. Performing Television/Theorizing Performance -- 4. Televisual Sex and Violence.
- ISBN
- 0879728256
- 9780879728250
- 0879728264
- 9780879728267
- LCCN
- 00050365
- OCLC
- ocm45172847
- 45172847
- SCSB-1223617
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library