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Book The Semiotics of Theatre and Drama

Download or read book The Semiotics of Theatre and Drama written by Keir Elam and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-12-16 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keir Elam showed how this new 'science' could provide a radical shift in our understanding of theatrical performance, one of our very richest and most complex forms of communication.

Book Theatre Semiotics

Download or read book Theatre Semiotics written by Marvin Carlson and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Semiotics of Performance

Download or read book The Semiotics of Performance written by Marco De Marinis and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1993-03-22 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book... succeeds at refining elements in the problem that semiotics and theater represent to and for one another." -- Choice "The Semiotics of Performance surprisingly retains its revelatory freshness, and actually opens up areas of reseach that could very well supply new incentives for further probing into what semiotics can offer to the study of theatre." -- Theatre Survey

Book The Semiotics of Theater

Download or read book The Semiotics of Theater written by Erika Fischer-Lichte and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The most thorough, systematic and convincing semiotics of the theater we have. . . . [L]ike those of Eco, it is an important conceptual synthesis, and a bibliographical gold mine." —Modern Language Notes" . . . impresses with its thoroughness and the informed perspective of its author . . . " —Theatre Survey" . . . a classic text . . . " —Theatre Research International"Immediately accessible to readers with some knowledge of theater but not much of semiotics. . . . For anyone with an interest in theater production and performance, or indeed theater history." —Marvin Carlson

Book Theatre as Sign System

Download or read book Theatre as Sign System written by Elaine Aston and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This invaluable student handbook is the first detailed guide to explain in detail the relationship between the drama text and the theory and practice of drama in performance. Beginning at the beginning, with accessible explanations of the meanings and methods of semiotics, Theatre as Sign System addresses key drama texts and offers new and detailed information about the theories of performance.

Book Places of Performance

    Book Details:
  • Author : Marvin Carlson
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 1989
  • ISBN : 9780801480942
  • Pages : 228 pages

Download or read book Places of Performance written by Marvin Carlson and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the cultural, social, and poltical aspects of theatrical architecture, from the threatres of ancient Greece of the present.

Book Semiotics of Drama and Theatre

Download or read book Semiotics of Drama and Theatre written by Herta Schmid and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume presents perspectives in the theory of drama and theatre that are new for the following reasons: 1) the contributions reflect the international cooperation in developing drama and theatre as well as its theories; 2) this collection is the first attempt of presenting papers within the context of (Analytical) Theory of Science; 3) it is the first consistent set of papers starting from semiotics a s a meta-theory. The volume is divided into four sections: I Fundamental of Theatre Research, II Theory of Drama and Theatre, III Descriptive Theatre Research, IV Applied Theatre Research. The fifth and final section offers a selective bibliography of analytical approaches to drama and theatre.

Book Theatre Semiotics

    Book Details:
  • Author : Fernando de Toro
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 1995-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780802075895
  • Pages : 226 pages

Download or read book Theatre Semiotics written by Fernando de Toro and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theatre Semiotics provides a thorough argument for the place and the necessity of semiotics within the interpretive process of theatre.

Book Directing Postmodern Theater

Download or read book Directing Postmodern Theater written by Jon Whitmore and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to theatrical directing using the concepts and terminology of semiotic theory

Book Semiotics of Art

Download or read book Semiotics of Art written by Ladislav Matejka and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Theory of Performing Arts

Download or read book Theory of Performing Arts written by André Helbo and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: n recent years, the post structuralist theories seem to have created a split in theatrological research. But, as André Helbo analyses in this book , a dialectic theory of the semiotic and the symbolic exchange bring to light a specific paradigm. From his wide experience as a semiotician and a theatrologist, the author has developed an analysis for the theory of spectacle. Focusing his study on a critical theory of the performing arts, and examining the fundamental controversies, he then offers new perspectives and new instruments of analysis: the social aspects, readability/visibility, coherence, the spectacle contract.

Book Maoist Model Theatre

Download or read book Maoist Model Theatre written by Rosemary A. Roberts and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a convincing reflection that changes our understanding of gender in Maoist culture, esp. for what critics from the 1990s onwards have termed its erasure of gender and sexuality. In particular the strong heroines of the yangbanxi, or model works which dominated the Cultural Revolution period, have been seen as genderless revolutionaries whose images were damaging to women. Drawing on contemporary theories ranging from literary and cultural studies to sociology, this book challenges that established view through detailed semiotic analysis of theatrical systems of the yangbanxi including costume, props, kinesics, and various audio and linguistic systems. Acknowledging the complex interplay of traditional, modern, Chinese and foreign gender ideologies as manifest in the 'model works', it fundamentally changes our insights into gender in Maoist culture.

Book Generating Theatre Meaning

Download or read book Generating Theatre Meaning written by Eli Rozik and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a theory and methodology of performance analysis as an alternative to traditional play-analysis. This book carries an underlying theme that theatre performance is a descriptive text generated by the theatre medium and that the process of generating meaning takes place in the actual encounter between a theatre performance and the spectator.

Book Handbook of Semiotics

Download or read book Handbook of Semiotics written by Winfried Noth and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1990-09-22 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History and Classics of Modern Semiotics -- Sign and Meaning -- Semiotics, Code, and the Semiotic Field -- Language and Language-Based Codes -- From Structuralism to Text Semiotics: Schools and Major Figures -- Text Semiotics: The Field -- Nonverbal Communication -- Aesthetics and Visual Communication.

Book The Field of Drama

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  • Author : Martin Esslin
  • Publisher : Methuen Publishing
  • Release : 1987
  • ISBN : 9780413192608
  • Pages : 190 pages

Download or read book The Field of Drama written by Martin Esslin and published by Methuen Publishing. This book was released on 1987 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique book of criticism that brings both theatre and film studies within a single theoretical framework Martin Esslin is the author of seminal critical studies such as The Theatre of the Absurd and Brecht: A Choice of Evils. Covering artists as diverse as Duchamp and Brecht, Busby Berkely and Congreve, Pinter and WC Fields, Esslin's approach is fresh and genuinely inquisitive, examining various prepared positions and testing the jargon. Taking each element of drama - the actor, the setting, the text, the music - and making provocative cross-references to stage and screen, Esslin offers a carefully argued "system" of his own, much fuller and more sensitive than anything that has gone before.

Book The Show and the Gaze of Theatre

Download or read book The Show and the Gaze of Theatre written by Erika Fischer-Lichte and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theatre, in some respects, resembles a market. Stories, rituals, ideas, perceptive modes, conversations, rules, techniques, behavior patterns, actions, language, and objects constantly circulate back and forth between theatre and the other cultural institutions that make up everyday life in the twentieth century. These exchanges, which challenge the established concept of theatre in a way that demands to be understood, form the core of Erika Fischer-Lichte's dynamic book. Each eclectic essay investigates the boundaries that separate theatre from other cultural domains. Every encounter between theatre and other art forms and institutions renegotiates and redefines these boundaries as part of an ongoing process. Drawing on a wealth of fascinating examples, both historical and contemporary, Fischer-Lichte reveals new perspectives in theatre research from quite a number of different approaches. Energetically and excitingly, she theorizes history, theorizes and historicizes performance analysis, and historicizes theory.

Book Reading the Material Theatre

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard Paul Knowles
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2004-05-13
  • ISBN : 9780521644167
  • Pages : 252 pages

Download or read book Reading the Material Theatre written by Richard Paul Knowles and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-05-13 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading the Material Theatre develops and demonstrates a method of theatrical performance analysis that takes into account the entire theatre experience, from production to reception. Beginning with semiotic and cultural materialist theory, Knowles quickly moves into detailed politicized analysis of the ways in which specific aspects of theatrical production, and specific contexts of reception, shape the audience's understanding of what they experience in the theatre. It concludes with five case studies of the cultural work performed by a major Shakespearean repertory theatre, a small nationalist theatre devoted to new play development, a major New York-based avant-garde touring theatre company, a British socialist company dedicated to the work of Shakespeare, and a range of international festivals. This accessible 2004 volume provides a first-step introduction to key terms and areas of performance theory, including reception history, performance analysis, and production analysis.