The Dubious Spectacle: Extremities of Theater, 1976-2000U of Minnesota Press, 1 jan 2002 - 347 pagina's Spanning a quarter of a century, the essays in this book rehearse, in the movement of memory and cross-reflection, an extensive career in theater. The work of Herbert Blau--his directing, writing, and criticism--has been a determining force during this period as theater encounters theory. |
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Pagina xi
... photograph , what it can't get rid of , ” the absence in the image , immobile , funereal , alluring as it may be , what caused Roland Barthes , in Camera Lucida , to speak of the seductive filmic flatness as a virtual theater of death ...
... photograph , what it can't get rid of , ” the absence in the image , immobile , funereal , alluring as it may be , what caused Roland Barthes , in Camera Lucida , to speak of the seductive filmic flatness as a virtual theater of death ...
Pagina xii
... photographic Equivalents of Alfred Stieglitz, which appear to bring the senses with surpassing vision where—surely on a flat surface—the senses do not go. But at the risk of being sucked into the emptiness of the signifier, let me speak ...
... photographic Equivalents of Alfred Stieglitz, which appear to bring the senses with surpassing vision where—surely on a flat surface—the senses do not go. But at the risk of being sucked into the emptiness of the signifier, let me speak ...
Pagina 4
... photographic portrait as a successive deprivation of being , each time the shutter closes a layer peeled away . What we ... photograph , engorged as it is with time , the principal anxiety is change . Any way you look at it the Image is ...
... photographic portrait as a successive deprivation of being , each time the shutter closes a layer peeled away . What we ... photograph , engorged as it is with time , the principal anxiety is change . Any way you look at it the Image is ...
Pagina 13
... Maybe so. While there are few who can even look at photographs of Stelarc's suspensions, no less the actual event, without wincing, it is certainly possible, if you can bear the Afterthought from the Vanishing Point 13.
... Maybe so. While there are few who can even look at photographs of Stelarc's suspensions, no less the actual event, without wincing, it is certainly possible, if you can bear the Afterthought from the Vanishing Point 13.
Pagina 14
... see the body of the performer today flattened into a photograph, as in the case of Cindy Sherman, it is in a sense both living and dead, and the degree of its living depends not only on who 14 Afterthought from the Vanishing Point.
... see the body of the performer today flattened into a photograph, as in the case of Cindy Sherman, it is in a sense both living and dead, and the degree of its living depends not only on who 14 Afterthought from the Vanishing Point.
Inhoudsopgave
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2 The Impossible Takes a Little Time | 18 |
3 Spacing Out in the American Theater | 37 |
Rehearsing the Resistance | 53 |
5 A Dove in My Chimney | 62 |
An Analytic Scenario | 70 |
The Grail of the Voice | 118 |
Chills and Fever Mourning and the Vanities of the Sublime | 132 |
13 Readymade Desire | 199 |
From Tango Palace to Mud | 206 |
The Group Idea and Its Legacy | 215 |
New Music and Theater | 230 |
17 FlatOut Vision | 246 |
Sovereign Pleasure and the Baroque Subject in the Tragicomedies of John Fletcher | 265 |
Revising the Abyss | 281 |
The Insane Root | 307 |
9 The Dubious Spectacle of Collective Identity | 137 |
Subtext of a Syllabus for the Arts in America | 157 |
Educating the American Theater | 181 |
12 The Pipe Dreams of ONeill in the Age of Deconstruction | 189 |
Notes | 321 |
Previous Publications | 335 |
Index | 337 |
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