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Performance and Modernity: Enacting Change on the Globalizing Stage

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Availability:In StockContributor:Julia A. WalkerPublish date:2022-04-14Pages:312
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781108833066ISBN-10:1108833063UPC:9781108833066Book Category:Drama, Performing ArtsBook Subcategory:American, Acting & AuditioningSize:9.19 x 6.20 x 0.70 inchesWeight:1.3007Product ID:SCBS5RGQ54
How do ideas take shape? How do concepts emerge into form? This book argues that they take shape quite literally in the human body, often appearing on stage in new styles of performance. Focusing on the historical period of modernity, Performance and Modernity: Enacting Change on the Globalizing Stage demonstrates how the unforeseen impact of economic, industrial, political, social, and psychological change was registered in bodily metaphors that took shape on stage. In new styles of performance-acting, dance, music, pageantry, avant-garde provocations, film, video and networked media-this book finds fresh evidence for how modernity has been understood and lived, both by stage actors, who, in modelling new habits, gave emerging experiences an epistemological shape, and by their audiences, who, in borrowing the strategies performers enacted, learned to adapt to a modernizing world.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781108833066ISBN-10:1108833063UPC:9781108833066Book Category:Drama, Performing ArtsBook Subcategory:American, Acting & AuditioningSize:9.19 x 6.20 x 0.70 inchesWeight:1.3007Product ID:SCBS5RGQ54
Walker, Julia A.: - Julia A. Walker is Associate Professor of English and Drama, with joint appointments in the English and Performing Arts Departments at Washington University in St. Louis. She is the author of Expressionism and Modernism in the American Theatre: Bodies, Voice, Words (Cambridge University Press, 2005), along with numerous published essays.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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