New Media Dramaturgy: Performance, Media and New-Materialism
Peter Eckersall
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Description for New Media Dramaturgy: Performance, Media and New-Materialism
Hardback. Series: New Dramaturgies. Num Pages: 235 pages, 22 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AN; ANF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
This book illuminates the shift in approaches to the uses of theatre and performance technology in the past twenty-five years and develops an account of new media dramaturgy (NMD), an approach to theatre informed by what the technology itself seems to want to say. Born of the synthesis of new media and new dramaturgy, NMD is practiced and performed in the work of a range of important artists from dumb type and their 1989 analog-industrial machine performance pH, to more recent examples from the work of Kris Verdonck and his A Two Dogs Company. Engaging with works from a range ... Read more
This book illuminates the shift in approaches to the uses of theatre and performance technology in the past twenty-five years and develops an account of new media dramaturgy (NMD), an approach to theatre informed by what the technology itself seems to want to say. Born of the synthesis of new media and new dramaturgy, NMD is practiced and performed in the work of a range of important artists from dumb type and their 1989 analog-industrial machine performance pH, to more recent examples from the work of Kris Verdonck and his A Two Dogs Company. Engaging with works from a range ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
New Dramaturgies
Condition
New
Number of Pages
236
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137556035
SKU
V9781137556035
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99-15
About Peter Eckersall
Peter Eckersall is Professor of Theatre at the Graduate Centre, City University of New York, USA. Recent publications include Performativity and Event in 1960s Japan: City, Body, Memory (2013). Helena Grehan is Professor in the School of Arts, Murdoch University, Australia. Her publications include Performance, Ethics and Spectatorship in a Global Age (2009) and most recently, ... Read more
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