Directing Postmodern Theater: Shaping Signification in Performance (Theater--Theory/Text/Performance) - Tapa blanda

Whitmore, Jon

 
9780472065578: Directing Postmodern Theater: Shaping Signification in Performance (Theater--Theory/Text/Performance)
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ISBN 10: 0472065572 ISBN 13: 9780472065578
Editorial: The University of Michigan Press, 1994

Sinopsis

An introduction to theatrical directing using the concepts and terminology of semiotic theory

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Críticas

An original contribution that aims to show how semiotic theory can be made useful and practical in the staging of plays." -James M. Symons, University of Colorado, Boulder ". . . the cumulative effect of Directing Postmodern Theater is . . . an exhilarating sense of the almost unlimited possibilities theatre affords for the production of multileveled, complex, challenging, evocative and provocative performance events. . . . For Whitmore, it would seem, the playwright, and the play, may be dead. Long live the director." -Theatrum Magazine "Whitmore's project is not to throw out conventional Western methods of directorial approach, based around psychological and illusionistic consistencies, but to broaden the base to accommodate the vigorous relativistic and multidisciplinary adventures which have been created by the arrival, during the past thirty years, of a more cross-cultural perception of theatre-making." -Essays in Theatre/Etudes Theatrales

Reseña del editor

Directing Postmodern Theater brings together critical theory and contemporary theater practice to provide valuable tools for directing in today's expansive performance world. Directing Postmodern Theater identifies the key communications systems at work in the theater: linguistic, visual, aural, olfactoral, and physical. Further, it pinpoints and examines twenty semiotic sign-systems that can be manipulated by directors to bring about meaningful communications. It is also the first book to bridge the gap between theoretical discussions of semiotics and the actual practice of producing theater. For those theories to have an impact, argues Whitmore, they must be linked to the process of transforming a playscript or concept into a living performance. This book fills the gap in practical yet provocative ways, grounding theoretical discussions in examples from specific postmodern productions.

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Editorial
The University of Michigan Press
Año de publicación
1994
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0472065572
ISBN 13 
9780472065578
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Número de páginas
254
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ISBN 10:  0472095579 ISBN 13:  9780472095575
Editorial: The University of Michigan Press, 2018
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