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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"theatricality"”.
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Absent Others: dark tourism, theatricality, and ethical spectatorship
… disasters. This thesis is concerned with how theatricality allows us to face such grievous history, and seeks to engage a theatrical analysis to help clarify what is at stake in such spectatorship. In order to examine theatricality as a mode of ethical responsiveness, I offer two contrasting …
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Behind the mirror: rereading theatricality in Luciano Fabro's Allestimento Teatrale
… faults Minimalist sculpture for its inherent theatricality. Theatricality, as he defines it, results from the form's anthropomorphic scale and sense of hollowness that imply a presence, like that of a human body, inside the work. The dialogical relationship between the viewer and this interior …
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Staging trans*formations: Gendered embodiment and drag theatricality 1585-1714
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2026-08-01
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THEATRES OF THE SUBJECT: THEATRICALITY AND DIALECTIC IN CONTEMPORARY FRENCH THOUGHT
… and overcome, I insist upon a reading of theatricality in terms of dialectical scission, in which the stage’s formal constraints provide the substrate for eruptions of the unthought within which change finds its bearings. By delineating two subjective orientations in theatre theory and …
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From Plato’s cave to tragic truth : a theoric journey between theatre and the visual arts
… making. As a context, I explore ideas of anti-theatricality which rely on a Platonic definition of truth that find expression within certain discourses and practices within the discipline of visual art. Through referencing the ancient Greek cultural practice of theoria that was appropriated by …
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Madness and divinity: Wycherley's reflexive drama
… of the stage. Through numerous references to theatricality, play-acting, dramatic gestures, and the theatre itself, the four plays ultimately offer a defining perspective upon man as player on a world stage. More specifically, the plays assert the reality and superiority of the contrivance of …
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A Pilgrim, An Outlaw: Features of Dramatic Adaptation and Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie
… characters’ inarticulateness reveals an inherent theatricality in the novel, which both respects Dreiser’s themes and makes them accessible through the conventions of the stage. I suggest the craft of dramatic adaptation should strike a delicate balance between being a “pilgrim” toward the …
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"Forms and ceremonies to be gone through" : performance and self-knowledge in Elizabeth Gaskell's "Cranford", "North and South", and "Wives and Daughters".
… aware of her contemporaries' obsession with theatricality, created works that are ultimately concerned with authentic performances of societal roles. These roles, Gaskell paradoxically argues, have the dualistic potential of either initiating self-knowledge or trapping the individual in a …
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Postures
… Spectacle, nostalgia, notions of portraiture, theatricality and other visual reflections of our present culture industry, are all elements that I address in my work. It is with these ideas in mind that I construct visual fields where disparate forms and images coexist, forming new narratives …
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Epistemic Theatres: The Dramaturgy of Knowledge in Twenty-First Century Theatre
… acknowledgement of knowledge’s engrained theatricality—helps in developing intellectual-academic responses not only to the new forms of theatre, but also to the spirit of information that birthed it.</p>
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To Stage a Reading: The Actor in British Modernism
… spectacular, it offered a vision of sensational theatricality lacking both the formal innovation and the intellectual charge of the later avant-garde stage and of literary modernism. My dissertation, by contrast, argues that one element of the nineteenth-century stage survived and claimed a place …
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Engaging and Evading the Bard: Shakespeare, Nationalism, and British Theatrical Modernism, 1900-1964
… inauguration of a specifically British theater, theatricality, and dramatic movement in the modernist period is absolutely contingent on a turn to Shakespeare, the icon par excellence of British drama, British culture, British identity, British history, and British power. The turn to Shakespeare …
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Camping in the Classroom: Ridiculous Theatre as Serious Drama
… his chosen vocal tactics removed any sense of theatricality from his performance. I confronted the student and suggested such extreme vocal suppression diminished the quality of his overall performance. He replied, "So you want me to get the gay out."His use of the phrase, "get the gay out" to …
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In the Midst of the Spectacular: Performance, Media, and Criticism in Frank O’Hara
… by arguing that the persistent tendency to use ‘theatricality’ as a metaphor for O’Hara’s lyric self has led critics to miss the centrality of his engagement with actual theatre. Developing a more thoroughly historicized account of his ‘theatricality’, I consider how his early participation in …
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Acts of making and receiving: A compositional practice
… of musical performance. Focusing on the inherent theatricality of musical performance, the pieces were created by experimenting with the non-sonic constituents of performance – i.e. the space that hosts performance and the rules that govern it, the distance between performers and audience and …
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Tourists’ Immersive Experiences at Dark Tourism Destinations: The Role of the Spiritualist Medium
… design, and interpretive trust. Anticipated theatricality heightened arousal and “staging” attributions, yet felt authenticity was sustained when the medium was perceived as accurate and respectful. Small-group intimacy and location-specific practices fostered co-creation and emotional …
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A Lighting Design Process for The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Rupert Holmes
… design was able to heighten the sense of theatricality and compliment the other design areas.
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