Puppets, masks, and performing objects / edited by John Bell. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bell, John, 1951-

Series:

TDR books.

TDR books

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Puppet theater.

Masks.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (197 p. ) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Puppets, masks, and performing objects at the end of the century / John Bell

A puppet tree : a model for the field of puppet theatre / Stephen Kaplin

Julie Taymor : from Jacques Lecoq to the Lion King : an interview / Richard Schechner

What, at the end of this century, is the situation of puppets and performing objects? / Peter Schumann

The end of Our Domestic Resurrection Circus : bread and puppet theater and counterculture performance in the 1990s / John Bell

Performing the intelligent machine : deception and enchantment in the life of the automation chess player / Mark Sussman

Czech puppet theatre and Russian folk theatre / Pyotr Bogatyrev

Modicut Puppet Theatre : modernism, satire, and Yiddish culture / Edward Portnoy

Articulations : the history of all things / Theodora Skiptares

If Gandhi could fly

: dilemmas and directions in shadow puppetry in India / Salil Singh

Rediscovering mask performance in Peru : Gustavo Boada, maskmaker with Yuyachkani : an interview / John Bell

The art of puppetry in the age of media production / Steve Tillis.

Notes:

Originally published as Drama review, v. 43, no. 3 (Fall 1999).

Includes bibliographical references and index

ISBN:

0-262-28777-3

1-4237-2985-4