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The Actor in Costume
Aoife Monks
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Description for The Actor in Costume
Paperback. How do audiences look at an actor in costume onstage? Monks explores this question, engaging with the main theoretical approaches to the study of actors in performance. The book considers costume's power to shape identity and form bodies drawing on examples from Modernist performance to nudity and stage ghosts. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ANC; ANH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 139 x 7. Weight in Grams: 216.
How do audiences look at actors in costume onstage? How does costume shape theatrical identity and form bodies? What do audiences wear to the theatre? This lively and cutting-edge book explores these questions, and engages with the various theoretical approaches to the study of actors in performance. Aoife Monks focuses in particular on the uncanny ways in which costume and the actor's body are indistinguishable in the audience's experience of a performance.
From the role of costume in Modernist theatre to the actor's position in the fashion system, from nudity to stage ghosts, this wide-ranging exploration of ... Read more
How do audiences look at actors in costume onstage? How does costume shape theatrical identity and form bodies? What do audiences wear to the theatre? This lively and cutting-edge book explores these questions, and engages with the various theoretical approaches to the study of actors in performance. Aoife Monks focuses in particular on the uncanny ways in which costume and the actor's body are indistinguishable in the audience's experience of a performance.
From the role of costume in Modernist theatre to the actor's position in the fashion system, from nudity to stage ghosts, this wide-ranging exploration of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Weight
216g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230217003
SKU
V9780230217003
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Ref
99-1
About Aoife Monks
AOIFE MONKS is Lecturer in Theatre Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. She has published on the work of the Wooster Group and Deborah Warner and global performances of Irishness.
Reviews for The Actor in Costume
'This lively, ambitious, and readable book frames costume as an essential element in the understanding and imagination of theatrical embodiment; much more than a treatment of costume design and history, The Actor in Costume makes an immediate difference to our thinking about performance today.'- W. B. Worthen, Alice Brady Pels Professor in the Arts, Barnard College, Columbia University, USA 'The ... Read more