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Title Performance and phenomenology : traditions and transformations / edited by Maaike Bleeker, Jon Foley Sherman, and Eirini Nedelkopoulou
Published New York : Routledge, 2015
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Description 1 online resource (x, 254 pages) : illustrations
Series Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies ; 32
Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies ; 32.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures; Introduction; 1 The Stage Struck Out of the World: Theatricality and Husserl's Phenomenology of Theatre, 1905-1918; 2 Movement as Lived Abstraction: The Logic of the Cut; 3 Process Phenomenologies; 4 The Actor's Work on Attention, Awareness, and Active Imagination: Between Phenomenology, Cognitive Science, and Practices of Acting; 5 Playing the Subject Card, Strategies of the Subjective; 6 Fleshing Dead Animals: Sensory Body Phenomenology in Performance
7 Vibrant Materials: The Agency of Things in the Context of Scenography8 Doing Time with the Neo-Futurists; 9 The In-Common of Phenomenology: Performing KMA's Congregation; 10 Transracial Intimacy and "Race Performativity": Recognition and Destabilizing the Nation's Racial Contract; 11 Passing Period: Gender, Aggression, and the Phenomenology of Walking; 12 Doing Phenomenology: The Empathetic Implications of CREW's Head-Swap Technology in 'W' (Double U); 13 Performance as Media Affect: The Phenomenology of Human Implication in Jordan Crandall's Gatherings; List of Contributors; Index
Summary This book offers a timely discussion about the interventions and tensions between two contested and contentious fields, performance and phenomenology, with international case studies that map an emerging 21st century terrain of critical and performance practice. Building on the foundational texts of both fields that established the performativity of perception and cognition, Performance and Phenomenology continues a tradition that considers experience to be the foundation of being and meaning. Acknowledging the history and critical polemics against phenomenological methodology and against perf
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Performing arts -- Philosophy
Theater -- Philosophy.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General.
Performing arts -- Philosophy
Theater -- Philosophy
Form Electronic book
Author Bleeker, Maaike, editor.
Sherman, Jon Foley, 1972- editor.
Nedelkopoulou, Eirini, 1980- editor.
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