Ghosts [[electronic resource] ] : death's double and the phenomena of theatre / / Alice Rayner

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910819701303321
• Autore: Rayner Alice
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Minneapolis, Minn. ; ; London, : University of Minnesota Press, 2006
• ISBN: 0-8166-9712-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (244 p.)
• Disciplina: 792.019
• Soggetti: Theater - Psychological aspects; Drama - History and criticism; Ghosts in literature; Ghosts in motion pictures
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Doubles and doubts -- Tonight at 8:00: the missed encounter -- All the dead voices: memorial and history -- Objects: lost and found -- Empty chairs: the memorial double -- Double or nothing: ghosts behind the curtains -- Ghosts onscreen: the drama of misrecognition.
• Sommario/riassunto: Alice Rayner examines theatre as a memorial practice that is haunted by the presence of loss, looking at how aspects of stagecraft turn familiar elements into something uncanny. Citing examples from the works of Shakespeare, Beckett, and Suzan-Lori Parks as well as the films Vertigo, Gaslight, and The Sixth Sense, Rayner describes time as it is employed by theatre with multiple facets of presence, duration, and passage.