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A cultural history of theatre in the modern age / edited by Kim Solga.

Contributor(s): Solga, Kim [editor].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Cultural history of theatre in the modern age.Publisher: London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022Copyright date: ©2022Description: xiv, 277 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781350277779 (paperback); 9781472585837 (hardback).Subject(s): Theater and society | Theater -- History -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 792.0904
Contents:
Introduction: the impossible modern age / Kim Solga -- Institutional frameworks: theatre, state, and market in modern urban performance / Michael McKinnie -- Social functions: consumers and producers / Nicholas Ridout -- Sexuality and gender: new stories and new spaces on the modern stage / Kirsten Pullen -- The environment of theatre: "home" in the modern age / Kim Solga and Joanne Tompkins -- Circulations: visual sovereignty, transmotion and tribalography / Jill Carter, Heather Davis-Fisch, and Ric Knowles -- Interpretations: the stakes of audience interpretation in twentieth-century political theatre -- Dassia N. Posner -- Communities of production: a materialist reading with an offstage view / Christin Essin and Marlis Schweitzer -- Genres and repertoires: redressing the nation in Ireland and Japan / Michelle Liu Carriger and Aoife Monks -- Technologies of performance: machinic staging and corporeal choreographies / Ashley Ferro-Murray and Timothy Murray -- Knowledge transmission: media and memory / Sarah Bay-Cheng.
Summary: "To call something modern is to assert something fundamental about the social, cultural, economic and technical sophistication of that thing, over and against what has come before. A Cultural History of Theatre in the Modern Age provides an interdisciplinary overview of theatre and performance in their social and material contexts from the late 19th century through the early 2000s, emphasizing key developments and trends that both exemplify and trouble the various meanings of the term 'modern', and the identity of modernist theatre and performance. Highly illustrated with 40 images, the ten chapters each take a different theme as their focus: institutional frameworks; social functions; sexuality and gender; the environment of theatre; circulation; interpretations; communities of production; repertoire and genres; technologies of performance; and knowledge transmission" - back cover.

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

To call something modern is to assert something fundamental about the social, cultural, economic and technical sophistication of that thing, over and against what has come before. A Cultural History of Theatre in the Modern Age provides an interdisciplinary overview of theatre and performance in their social and material contexts from the late 19th century through the early 2000s, emphasizing key developments and trends that both exemplify and trouble the various meanings of the term 'modern', and the identity of modernist theatre and performance.

Highly illustrated with 40 images, the ten chapters each take a different theme as their focus: institutional frameworks; social functions; sexuality and gender; the environment of theatre; circulation; interpretations; communities of production; repertoire and genres; technologies of performance; and knowledge transmission.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: the impossible modern age / Kim Solga -- Institutional frameworks: theatre, state, and market in modern urban performance / Michael McKinnie -- Social functions: consumers and producers / Nicholas Ridout -- Sexuality and gender: new stories and new spaces on the modern stage / Kirsten Pullen -- The environment of theatre: "home" in the modern age / Kim Solga and Joanne Tompkins -- Circulations: visual sovereignty, transmotion and tribalography / Jill Carter, Heather Davis-Fisch, and Ric Knowles -- Interpretations: the stakes of audience interpretation in twentieth-century political theatre -- Dassia N. Posner -- Communities of production: a materialist reading with an offstage view / Christin Essin and Marlis Schweitzer -- Genres and repertoires: redressing the nation in Ireland and Japan / Michelle Liu Carriger and Aoife Monks -- Technologies of performance: machinic staging and corporeal choreographies / Ashley Ferro-Murray and Timothy Murray -- Knowledge transmission: media and memory / Sarah Bay-Cheng.

"To call something modern is to assert something fundamental about the social, cultural, economic and technical sophistication of that thing, over and against what has come before. A Cultural History of Theatre in the Modern Age provides an interdisciplinary overview of theatre and performance in their social and material contexts from the late 19th century through the early 2000s, emphasizing key developments and trends that both exemplify and trouble the various meanings of the term 'modern', and the identity of modernist theatre and performance. Highly illustrated with 40 images, the ten chapters each take a different theme as their focus: institutional frameworks; social functions; sexuality and gender; the environment of theatre; circulation; interpretations; communities of production; repertoire and genres; technologies of performance; and knowledge transmission" - back cover.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • List of Illustrations (p. vii)
  • Notes on Contributors (p. xi)
  • Series Preface (p. xv)
  • Editor's Acknowledgements (p. xvi)
  • Introduction: The Impossible Modern Age (p. 1)
  • 1 Institutional Frameworks: Theatre, State, and Market in Modern Urban Performance (p. 17)
  • 2 Social Functions: Consumers and Producers (p. 35)
  • 3 Sexuality and Gender: New Stories and New Spaces on the Modern Stage (p. 55)
  • 4 The Environment of Theatre: 'Home' in the Modern Age (p. 75)
  • 5 Circulations: Visual Sovereignty, Transmotion, and Tribalography (p. 95)
  • 6 Interpretations: The Stakes of Audience Interpretation in Twentieth-Century Political Theatre (p. 117)
  • 7 Communities of Production: A Materialist Reading with an Offstage View (p. 139)
  • 8 Genres and Repertoires: Redressing the Nation in Ireland and Japan (p. 159)
  • 9 Technologies of Performance: Machink Staging and Corporeal Choreographies (p. 181)
  • 10 Knowledge Transmission: Media and Memory (p. 201)
  • Notes (p. 221)
  • Bibliography (p. 241)
  • Index (p. 259)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Kim Solga is Professor of Theatre Studies at Western University, Canada.