Theatre histories

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Ostali autori: Zarrilli, Philip B. (-), McConachie, Bruce, Williams, Gary Jay
Vrsta građe: Knjiga
Jezik: eng
Impresum: New York ; London : Routledge, 2006.
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  • Preface: Interpreting performances and cultures: A first mapping: about this book
  • A second mapping: cultural performances, theatre and drama
  • A third mapping: about history, historiography, and historical methods
  • The historian's sources
  • A fouth mapping: periodiozation through modes of human communication
  • Case studies and interpretive approaches: the historian at work
  • A note on diacritics, spellings, and names
  • PART I: Performance and theatre in oral and written cultures before 1600 / edited by Philip B. Zarrilli
  • Introduction : The evolution of human language and consciousness
  • Human language, writing and society
  • Performance, communication, and remembrance
  • 1. Oral, ritual, and shamanic performance : Primary orality
  • Oral performance
  • Oral texts and their transmission under the written sign: Vedic chanting in India
  • Ritual specialists: accessing sacred power
  • Late Neolithic ritual landscapes and pilgrimage in England
  • Early Celtic oral and ritual festival performance
  • Interpreting and understanding ritual
  • Ritual, ceremony, and collictive social life
  • The healing powers of ritual/shamanic specialists
  • Summary
  • Case studies : Yoruba ritual as "play", and "contigency" in the ritual process
  • Interpretive approach. Theories of play and improvisation
  • Korean shamanism and the power of speech
  • Interpretive approach. Speech act theory
  • 2. Religious and civic festivals: Early drama and theatre in context : Commemorative ritual "drama" in Abydos, Egypt
  • dialogic drama in the city-state of Athens
  • Mesoamericam performance
  • Texts in other traditions
  • Medieval Christian liturgy and drama
  • Islamic commemorative mourning "dramas": the Ta'zieh if Iran
  • Summary discussion
  • Case studies : Classical Greek theatre: looking at Oedipus
  • Interpretive approach. Cognitive studies
  • Christians and Moors: Medieval performance in Spain and the New World
  • Interpretive approach. Cultural hierarchy
  • 3. Imperial theatre: Pleasure, power, and aesthetics : Drama, theatre, and performance in the Roman Republic and Empire
  • Indian literary and commemorative drama and theatre
  • Early Chineses and JApenese drama, theatre, and performance
  • Summary discussion
  • Case studies : Plautus's plays: what's so funny?
  • Interpretive approach, Part I. Henri Bergson's theory of laughter
  • Interpretive approach, Part II. Bergson's theory in historical perspective
  • Kutiyattam Sanskrit theatre of India: Rasa-bhava aesthetic theory and the question of taste
  • Interpretive approach. Reception theory
  • The silent bell: The Japanese noh play, Dôjôji
  • Interpretive approach. Feminist and gender theory, modified for medieval Japan
  • PART II : Theatre and print cuoltures, 1500-1900 / edited by Bruce McConachie
  • Intruduction: China and Western Europe : The rise of European professional theatres
  • Commedia dell'arte
  • Institutionalizing drama in Europe
  • Golden age theatre in Spain, 1590-1680
  • Neoclassicism and print in europe
  • Le Cid and French absolutism
  • Scenic perspectivism in print and on stage
  • Acting and print in Europe after 1700
  • European dramatists claim authority
  • Theatre, print, and the public
  • 4. Theatre and the state, 1600-1900 : Theatre and the state in France, 1630-1675
  • From patronage to control in France, 1675-1789
  • Samurai warriors versus kabuki actors, 1600-1670
  • regulating kabuki, 1670-1868
  • Theatre and the state in England, 1600-1660
  • Patents, censorship, and social order in England, 1660-1790
  • Theatre and the state in England and France, 1790-1900
  • Case studies: Moliere and carnival laughter
  • Interpretice approach. M. Bakhtin's concept of the carnivalesque
  • Kabuki and bunraku: Mimesis and the hybrid body
  • Interpretive approach. Mimesis, hybridity, and the body
  • Shakespearean sexuality in 'Twelfth night'
  • Interpretive approach. Queer theory
  • 5. Theatre for knowledge through feeling, 1700-1900
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  • 6. Theatre, nation, and empire, 1750-1900
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  • PART III. Theatre in modern media cultures, 1850-1970 / edited by Bruce McConachie
  • Introduction: Historical changes after 1850 : Photography and audiophony in the theatre
  • Spectacular bodies on the popular stage
  • The rise of realism in the West
  • Realist producer-directors
  • The rise of realism in Japan
  • Avente-garde theatres in the West
  • The Great War as a turning point in world theatre
  • Shakespeare and film in England
  • Lyrical abstraction and th eradio in France
  • Psychological realism in the United States
  • Theatre and politics
  • The continuing power of print
  • 7. Theatres of popular entertainment, 1850-1970
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  • 8. Theatres of the avant-garde and their legacy, 1880-1970
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  • 9. Theatres for reform and revolution, 1880-1970
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  • PART IV. Theatre and performance in the age of global communications, 1950-present / edited by Gary Jay Williams
  • Introduction: colonialism, globalisation, media and theatre : Media and theare: all in the family
  • Globalization, media, theatre and performance
  • The media: power and resistance
  • Theatre, performance, resistance
  • Performance art
  • Theatre in postcolonial African nations
  • 10. Rich and poor theatres of globalization
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  • 11. Director, text, and performance in the postmodern world
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  • 12. Interculturalism, hybridity, tourism: the performing world in new terms