Watching war on the twenty-first century stage : spectacles of conflict /
This is the first publication to analyse the ways in which UK theatre has represented, interrogated or contested images of war and terrorism as they are habitually presented in the dominant media. Drawing on theories of spectacle and a wide array of plays and productions - including plays from playw...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Lenguaje: | inglés |
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London ; New York :
Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,
2017.
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| Colección: | Methuen drama engage.
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| Acceso en línea: | Abstract with links to full text Drama online EBSCOhost MyiLibrary ProQuest Ebook Central VLeBooks |
| Sumario: | This is the first publication to analyse the ways in which UK theatre has represented, interrogated or contested images of war and terrorism as they are habitually presented in the dominant media. Drawing on theories of spectacle and a wide array of plays and productions - including plays from playwrights such as Caryl Churchill, Mark Ravenhill and Martin Crimp, as well as devised and dance-based theatre - Spectacles of Conflict is a richly provocative engagement with an issue that permeates contemporary culture and consciousness. Residents in wealthy nations such as the UK are invited - at a safe distance, from the comfort of our sofas or our desktops - to spectate, to gawp at, to indulge in images of violence and conflict. Finburgh asks how plays and performances have succeeded, or failed, in negotiating their own status as spectacle in order to make war as it is actually waged, more palpable, in all its devastating vastness. The original and interdisciplinary interrogation offers new ways of analysing representations of war and gives coherence to a large and ever-expanding field by examining and evoking a broad spectrum of theatre and performance pieces, that includes national and fringe productions, text-based theatre and physical performance, and promenade, site-specific and conventional pieces. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xv, 355 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 330-346) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781472598677 1472598679 9781472598691 1472598695 9781472598684 1472598687 |
| DOI: | 10.5040/9781472598691 |