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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451254603321

Autore

Pavis Patrice <1947, >

Titolo

Theatre at the crossroads of culture / / Patrice Pavis ; translated by Loren Kruger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge : , : Taylor & Francis Group, , 2001

ISBN

1-134-92810-6

1-138-15363-X

0-203-35933-X

1-280-05393-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (219 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

KrugerLoren

Disciplina

306.4/84

306.484

Soggetti

Drama

Intercultural communication

Theater and society

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 1992.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

BOOK COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; PREFACE; 1 TOWARD A THEORY OF CULTURE AND MISE EN SCÈNE; A SATURATED THEORY; AN HOURGLASS READY FOR EVERYTHING; CAVITY, CRUCIBLE, CROSSING, CROSSROADS; CULTURE AND ITS DOUBLES; Culturalist premises; Definition 1; Definition 2; Definition 3; Definition 4; Definition 5; Sociohistorical premises ; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; 2 FROM PAGE TO STAGE: A DIFFICULT BIRTH ; PRELIMINARY REMARKS; DENIALS; MISE EN SCÈNE AS A MEANS OF MODULATING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TEXT AND PERFORMANCE; Stage enunciation and the concretization circuit

Verbal and non-verbal: Reading actualizedChange in perspective; Metatext or discourse of the mise en scène; Mise en scène as discourse on emptiness and ambiguity: Imaginary solution and parodic discourse; A TYPOLOGY OF MISES EN SCÈNE? ; (PROVISIONAL) CONCLUSIONS ; MARGINS; Margin 1; Margin 2; Margin 3; Margin 4; Margin 5; Margin 6; Margin 7; Margin 8; Margin 9; Margin 10; Margin 11; NOTE;



BIBLIOGRAPHY; 3 THE CLASSICAL HERITAGE OF MODERN DRAMA: THE CASE OF POSTMODERN THEATRE; CLASSICAL WORK OR MODERN TEXT?; The Work and the Text; The impossible unitary space

New relationship to the classical work Infusing, decentering, undoing the rhythm; INHERITANCE OR MEMORY; Bourgeois or socialist heritage; Tradition and traditions; The heritage of postmodern theatre; MODERN OR POSTMODERN THEATRE; The postmodernization of works; Some tendencies in postmodern theatre; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; 4 ON THEORY AS ONE OF THE FINE ARTS AND ITS LIMITED INFLUENCE ON CONTEMPORARY DRAMA WHETHER MAJORITY OR MINORITY...; THEORY AND MINORITY; Meaning of 'theory'; Meaning of 'minority'; Theory: minoritarian or minor art?; New majorities in contemporary theatre theory

THEORY AS ONE OF THE FINE ARTS The pleasures of theory; The place of theory; Crisis of semiotics; Theory overflowing into practice; LIMITED BUT PERCEPTIBLE INFLUENCE; Influence on majority dramaturgy; Commercial majority; Ideological majority; National majority in the mise en scène of classics; Influence on minority dramaturgy; Minority of the avant-garde; Cultural minority; APPENDIX; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; 5 THEATRE AND THE MEDIA;  SPECIFICITY AND INTERFERENCE; THEATRE WITHIN A THEORY OF MEDIA; Mediatization of theatre; Media in relation to theatre; Quantification and massification

Theatre, media and the spectacular The double game of the media and theatre; DRAMATURGY AND SPECIFICITY OF THE MEDIA; The damaturgy of radio; The dramaturgy of television; The dramaturgy of video; Specificity of radio; Specificity of television; Specificity of video; Fictional status of the media; INTERFERENCES BETWEEN MEDIA ; Theatre == Radio ; Theatre - - Radio ; Radio == Theatre ; Radio - - Theatre ; Radio == Cinema ; Radio - - Cinema ; Cinema ==; Radio ; Cinema - - Radio ; Cinema == Video ; Cinema - - Video ; Video == Cinema ; Video - - Cinema

Video == Television/Video - -Television

Sommario/riassunto

Western culture has a long and fraught history of cultural appropriation, a history that has particular resonance within performance practice. Patrice Pavis asks what is at stake politically and aesthetically when cultures meet at the crossroads of theatre.? A series of major recent productions are analysed, including Peter Brook's Mahabharata, Cixous/Mnouchkine's Indiande, and Barba's Faust. These focus discussions on translation, appropriation, adaptation, cultural misunderstanding, and theatrical exploration. Never losing sight of the theatrical experience, Pa