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Naming Theatre: Demonstrative Diagnosis in Performance (Performance Interventions)
James Frieze
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Description for Naming Theatre: Demonstrative Diagnosis in Performance (Performance Interventions)
Hardcover. Reading a range of work from the US and UK over the last two decades, this is an innovative study of theatre's growing obsession with technologies and effects of naming. How does theatre reflect, and intervene in, naming practices across domains such as philosophy, computing, journalism, anthropology, advertising, military training, and genetics? Series: Performance Interventions. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 136 x 18. Weight in Grams: 378.
Reading a range of work from the US and UK over the last two decades, this is an innovative study of theatre's growing obsession with technologies and effects of naming. How does theatre reflect, and intervene in, naming practices across domains such as philosophy, computing, journalism, anthropology, advertising, military training, and genetics?
Reading a range of work from the US and UK over the last two decades, this is an innovative study of theatre's growing obsession with technologies and effects of naming. How does theatre reflect, and intervene in, naming practices across domains such as philosophy, computing, journalism, anthropology, advertising, military training, and genetics?
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Series
Performance Interventions
Number of Pages
215
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230517707
SKU
V9780230517707
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99-15
About James Frieze
JAMES FRIEZE is Senior Lecturer in Drama at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. He devises and directs new works for the stage and site-specific adaptations of novels, magazines, and virtual worlds. He has contributed to various journals, and is currently writing books on Ping Chong, and (with Anita Gonzalez) on diasporic performance in Liverpool and New York.
Reviews for Naming Theatre: Demonstrative Diagnosis in Performance (Performance Interventions)
'Naming Theatre offers readers a comprehensive understanding of how names populate theatre and how they structure knowledge about a play. This book is an important contribution to the field...[and] prompts theatre scholars to expand the discourse related to their work (something which is frequently ignored) by establishing ways of questioning it.' - Stella Keramida, Platform ''Naming' is ... Read more