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Ghosts : death's double and the phenomena of theatre / Alice Rayner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rayner, Alice.
- Series:
- Tales of Horror.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Theater--Psychological aspects.
- Theater.
- Drama--History and criticism.
- Drama.
- Ghosts in literature.
- Ghosts in motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (244 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis, Minn. ; London : University of Minnesota Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Alice Rayner examines theatre as a memorial practice that is haunted by the presence of loss, looking at how aspects of stagecraft turn familiar elements into something uncanny. Citing examples from the works of Shakespeare, Beckett, and Suzan-Lori Parks as well as the films Vertigo, Gaslight, and The Sixth Sense, Rayner describes time as it is employed by theatre with multiple facets of presence, duration, and passage.
- Contents:
- Doubles and doubts
- Tonight at 8:00: the missed encounter
- All the dead voices: memorial and history
- Objects: lost and found
- Empty chairs: the memorial double
- Double or nothing: ghosts behind the curtains
- Ghosts onscreen: the drama of misrecognition.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-9712-4
- OCLC:
- 476096026
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