Author: Keir Elam
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-12-16
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 1134465122
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Keir Elam showed how this new 'science' could provide a radical shift in our understanding of theatrical performance, one of our very richest and most complex forms of communication.
Author: Erika Fischer-Lichte
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9780253322371
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"The most thorough, systematic and convincing semiotics of the theater we have. . . . [L]ike those of Eco, it is an important conceptual synthesis, and a bibliographical gold mine." —Modern Language Notes" . . . impresses with its thoroughness and the informed perspective of its author . . . " —Theatre Survey" . . . a classic text . . . " —Theatre Research International"Immediately accessible to readers with some knowledge of theater but not much of semiotics. . . . For anyone with an interest in theater production and performance, or indeed theater history." —Marvin Carlson
Author: Marco De Marinis
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1993-03-22
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780253112712
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"The book... succeeds at refining elements in the problem that semiotics and theater represent to and for one another." -- Choice "The Semiotics of Performance surprisingly retains its revelatory freshness, and actually opens up areas of reseach that could very well supply new incentives for further probing into what semiotics can offer to the study of theatre." -- Theatre Survey
Author: Elaine Aston
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-12-16
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 1136112286
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This invaluable student handbook is the first detailed guide to explain in detail the relationship between the drama text and the theory and practice of drama in performance. Beginning at the beginning, with accessible explanations of the meanings and methods of semiotics, Theatre as Sign System addresses key drama texts and offers new and detailed information about the theories of performance.
Author: Marvin Carlson
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780801480942
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Explores the cultural, social, and poltical aspects of theatrical architecture, from the threatres of ancient Greece of the present.
Author: Lars Kleberg
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 1993-05-01
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9780333568170
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →After the 1917 revolution, Russian and Soviet avant-garde theatre attempted to create a new art for post-revolutionary society. This reconsideration of the Russian avant-garde theatre investigates the burgeoning new drama/theatre forms of the period. Kleberg considers assumptions made about the audience and by the audience, and seeks to determine whether discrepancies existed between the two. Offering fresh insights into the modernist period of Russian theatre, Theatre as Action provides a new typology of the stage/audience relationship in modernist Russian theatre. Constructivism of the 1920's is discussed on light of the plays of Meyerhold, Eisenstein, and Treytykov. The relation of the Soviet Russian avant-garde to the aesthetics of Bertold Brecht is also examined. This original, comprehensive work is a major contribution to our understanding of the confrontation of the ideal and the reality of Soviet 1920's, revealing the Wagnerian and Symbolist utopia beneath, and its crisis. It will be of particular interest to students of literature and drama.
Author: Herta Schmid
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 1985-01-01
Total Pages: 558
ISBN-13: 9027279675
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The volume presents perspectives in the theory of drama and theatre that are new for the following reasons: 1) the contributions reflect the international cooperation in developing drama and theatre as well as its theories; 2) this collection is the first attempt of presenting papers within the context of (Analytical) Theory of Science; 3) it is the first consistent set of papers starting from semiotics a s a meta-theory. The volume is divided into four sections: I Fundamental of Theatre Research, II Theory of Drama and Theatre, III Descriptive Theatre Research, IV Applied Theatre Research. The fifth and final section offers a selective bibliography of analytical approaches to drama and theatre.
Author: Mark Fortier
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-07-08
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1134523645
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is a new and enlarged edition of Mark Fortier's very successful and widely used essential text for students. Theory/Theatre provides a unique and engaging introduction to literary theory as it relates to theatre and performance. Fortier lucidly examines current theoretical approaches, from semiotics, poststructuralism, through cultural materialism, postcolonial studies and feminist theory. This new edition includes: * More detailed explanation of key ideas * New 'Putting it into practice' sections at the end of each chapter so you can approach performances from specific theoretical perspectives * Annotated further reading section and glossary. Theory/Theatre is still the only study of its kind and is invaluable reading for beginning students and scholars of performance studies.
Author: Jon Whitmore
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780472065578
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An introduction to theatrical directing using the concepts and terminology of semiotic theory