| Collation |
xxiv, 351 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Bibliog. |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Dassia N. Posner, Claudia Orenstein, and John Bell -- Part I: Theory and practice / edited and introduced by John Bell -- Section I: Theoretical approaches to the puppet. The death of "the puppet"? / Margaret Williams -- The co-presence and ontological ambiguity of the puppet / Paul Piris -- Playing with the eternal uncanny: the persistent life of lifeless objects / John Bell -- Section II: Perspectives from practitioners. Visual dramaturgy: some thoughts for puppet theatre-makers / Eric Bass -- Puppetry, authorship, and the Ur-narrative / Basil Jones -- Petrushka's voice / Alexander Gref and Elena Slonimskaya -- "Clouds are made of white!": the intersection of live art and puppetry as an approach to postdramatic children's theatre / Rike Reiniger -- Movement is consciousness / Kate Brehm -- The eye of light: the tension of image and object in shadow theatre and beyond / Stephen Kaplin -- The third thing / Jim Lasko -- Post-decivilization efforts in the nonsense suburb of art / Peter Schumann. |
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Part II: New dialogues with history and tradition / edited and introduced by Claudia Orenstein -- Section III: Revisiting history. Making a troublemaker: Charlotte Charke's proto-feminist Punch / Amber West -- Life-death and disobedient obedience: Russian modernist redefinitions of the puppet / Dassia N. Posner -- The Saracen of Opera dei Pupi: a study of race, representation, and identity / Lisa Morse -- Puppet think: the implication of Japanese ritual puppetry for thinking through puppetry performances / Jane Marie Law -- Relating to the cross: a puppet perspective on the Holy Week ceremonies of the Regularis Concordia / Debra Hilborn -- Section IV: Negotiating tradition. Traditional and post-traditional wayang kulit in Java today / Matthew Isaac Cohen -- Korean puppetry and heritage: Hyundai Puppet Theatre and Creative Group NONI translating tradition / Kathy Foley -- Forging new paths for Kerala's tolpavakoothu leather shadow puppetry tradition / Claudia Orenstein -- Integration of puppetry tradition into contemporary theatre: the reinvigoration of the vertep puppet nativity play after communism in Eastern Europe / Ida HledĂková |
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Part III: Contemporary investigations and hybridizations / edited and introduced by Dassia N. Posner -- Section V: Material performances in contemporary theatre. From props to prosopopeia: making After Cardenio / Jane Taylor -- "A total spectacle but a divided one": redefining character in Handspring Puppet Company's Or you could kiss me / Dawn Tracey Brandes -- Reading a puppet show: understanding the three-dimensional narrative / Robert Smythe -- Notes on new model theatres / Mark J. Sussman -- Section VI: New directions and hybrid forms. From puppet to robot: technology and the human in Japanese theatre / Cody Poulton -- Unholy alliances and harmonious hybrids: new fusions in puppetry and animation / Colette Searls -- Programming play: puppets, robots, and engineering / Elizabeth Ann Jochum and Todd Murphey -- Return to the mound: animating infinite potentia in clay, food, and compost / Eleanor Margolies. |
| Summary |
"As an art form, puppetry has enjoyed a significant expansion over the past twenty years. This can be seen both in terms of its popularity in mainstream theatre and in the amount of attention that it now receives from an academic audience. This increased presence in the practical and theoretical realms is also underlined by a diversification in the definition of puppetry itself, with the term now being used to cover everything from found or traditional 'performing objects' to super high-tech projections and constructions"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Puppet theater.
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Puppet theater -- History.
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| Alt Author |
Posner, Dassia N.
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Orenstein, Claudia.
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Bell, John, 1951-
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| Portion Of Title |
Companion to puppetry and material performance |
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Puppetry and material performance |
| ISBN |
9780415705400 (hardback) |
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0415705401 (hardback) |
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9781315850115 (ebook) |
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1315850117 (ebook) |
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9781315850115 (ebook) |
| ISBN/ISSN |
40023903360 |
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