A sociosemiotic theory of theatre
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| Glavni autor: | Alter, Jean (-) |
| Vrsta građe: | Knjiga |
| Jezik: | eng |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
cop. 1990.
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- Preface
- Introduction: Foundations
- 1. What theatre?
- 2. What seciosemiotics?
- I: Reference and performance
- 1. Origins: referential theories
- Mimesis: theatre as imitation
- Rituals and speech acts: theatre as action
- Shamans and structures: theatre as revelation
- 2. Origins: perfomant theories
- The game principle: theatre as necessity
- The comedian's theatre: acting out
- Social roles and rules: theatre as life
- Aesthetic demands: theatre as art
- 3. Performant function in action
- Sports: objective 'performances'
- Circus: magic 'performances'
- Theatre: intermittent 'performances'
- Interaction between referential and 'performant' functions
- Assessing theatrical 'performances': techniques and styles
- Nontheatrical (cultural) 'performances'
- Semiotics of 'performances': deconstructing signs
- III. A grammar of theatre referentiality
- 1. A story told with signs
- 2. Primary signs: iconicity
- 3. Cultural stage signs
- Modes of insertion: primary and cultural signs
- Simple and complex signs
- Story signs: intentionality and causality
- Signs for the audience: commentary
- 4. The "Absent" cause: point and meaning of story
- 5. A case study: Mnouchkine's 'Richard II'
- III: Transformational processes: production/reception
- 1. Theatricality: theatre as a series of transformations
- 2. Textual transformations of the text
- Literary, theatrical, and staged texts
- Conventional transformation: discounting stage directions
- Covert transformation: altering the dialogue
- 3. Referential transformations of the text
- Referential tensions in virtual performances
- Altering virtual performances: wild of probable referents
- 4. From text to stage: parameters of transformation
- Open and closed texts: textual transformability
- Types of transformed performances
- Text-oriented performances
- Performances inspired by the performant function
- Ideologically oriented performances
- 5. Transformational strategies of stage signs
- Confirmation
- Reinforcement
- Restriction
- Subversion
- Diversion: substituting and masking strategies
- 6. Reception
- Reception and the consumer society
- Reception and the performant function
- Referential reception
- Concretization in theatre
- Restructuring imaginary worlds: play in the gap
- What reception data and texts?
- IV: Playwrights, directors, actors, and their work
- 1. "Authors" and the production od dramatic texts
- Absent, mediating, involved, and dead authors
- Variations in authorial authority
- Production of the text
- A short statement on theory and method
- Illustration: Corneille's 'Le Cid'
- 2. Directors and society
- "Absent" and "collective" directors
- Individual directors: tensions and strategies
- 3. Actors and their paradoxes
- Actors and social subversion
- Actors and staging styles
- Actors as signs and producers of signs
- Actors and the audience
- Bibliography
- Index