Theatricality and the arts : film, theatre, art / edited by Andrew Quick and Richard Rushton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Quick, Andrew, editor.

Rushton, Richard, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater--Philosophy.

Theater.

Theater and society.

Aesthetics.

Motion pictures and theater.

Theater in art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 312 pages) : illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2024.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

'Theatricality and the Arts' presents a series of investigations of the notion of 'theatricality'. Primarily, theatricality concerns that which pertains to theatre, but the term has always carried with it the potentially pejorative associations of exaggeration and fakery. The essays here question and contest such associations. The book is divided into four sections which together provide a comprehensive interrogation of theatricality.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Introduction: Questioning Theatricality

Part 1 Multimedia

Staging Night Watch: Theatricality and Scenes of Crime in Peter Greenaway’s Screen Adaption of Rembrandt’s Painting

2 Theatricalising Absorption and Networked Hyper-Theatricality

3 Theatricality and Dissonance: Frictions in Contemporary Networked Performance Practices

4 Meta-Theatricality, Hypermediacy and Theatricality in the Making of Never Swim Alone

Part 2 Philosophy

5 Display in Human Art and the Aesthetic Lives of Animals: On the Limits of Evolutionary Aesthetics

6 Against Experience: Theatre is Not Life (or Theatre in the Age of Third Nature)

7 Theatre Against Itself: Performance, Politics and the Limits of Theatricality

Part 3 Art/Theatre/Photography/Sound

8 Between Lies and Truth Lies the Truth: Staged Mythologies in Damien Hirst’s Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable

9 Owning the (Female) Experience: Theatricality, Writing and Translation in Literature, Theatre and Cinema

10 Performance, Photography, Theatricality and Citationality: Theatricality as a Mode of Performing Citation in the Still Photographic Image

11 Music, Miles Davis and Theatricality

Part 4 Theatre and Cinema

12 Metaphoric Theatricality: Theatricality as a Weapon of Resistance: The Production of Our Grand Circus in 1973 Greece

13 Theatricalising Sci-Fi: Theatre and the Multiverse in Mouse: The Persistence of an Unlikely Thought (Daniel Kitson, 2016) and Constellations (Nick Payne, 2012)

14 The Interconnectedness between Melodrama and Theatricality in Pedro Almodóvar’s The Skin I Live In (2011) and Nelson Rodrigues’ Woman without Sin (1941)

15 Popular Theatricality in Spike Lee

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-3995-1167-X

OCLC:

1432029872