Aoife Monks: The Actor in Costume

Cover: 9780230217003 | The Actor in Costume | Aoife Monks | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2017

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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 costume, and its histories, argues for the centrality of costume to the spectator's experience at the theatre. Drawing on examples from paintings, photographs, live performances, novels, reviews, blogs and plays, Monks presents a vibrant analysis of the very peculiar work that actors and costumes do on the stage.

Über den Autor

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.
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.

Zusammenfassung

A critical engagement with the ways in which audiences look at actors onstage, offering new insights into the theatrical roles of identity, dress and fashion

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The Dress Rehearsal
Dressing-Up: The Actor's Body and Costume
Dressing the Audience: A History of Fashion at the Theatre
Re-dressing the Actor: Modernist Costume
Cross-dressing: Authenticity and Identity
Undressing: The Disappointments of Nudity
Dressing the Immaterial: The Problem of Ghosts
Epilogue
After-Effects: Costume and the Memory of Performance.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2017
Genre:	Allgemeine Lexika , Importe
Rubrik:	Literaturwissenschaft
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9780230217003
ISBN-10:	0230217001
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Monks, Aoife
Hersteller:	Bloomsbury 3PL
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Macmillan Education, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, productsafety@springernature.com
Maße:	216 x 140 x 10 mm
Von/Mit:	Aoife Monks
Erscheinungsdatum:	20.02.2017
Gewicht:	0,225 kg