Format:
1 online resource (366 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781136448515
Content:
Contemporary Mise en Scène is Patrice Pavis's enlightening and penetrating analysis of the role that stagecraft plays in the creation of drama. Pavis explores the complex relationship of mise en scène to different performance forms throughout history. He focuses on the traditional elements employed in stagecraft and studies the dramatic impact of actors, costume, lighting and set design on performance. This powerful new translation explores the changing possibilities for stagecraft through new media forms in the twenty-first century and critically examines contemporary stagecraft today in the context of performance art, physical theatre and postmodern theory
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Cover -- Contemporary Mise en Scène -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- 1 Where did mise en scène come from? Origins and theory -- The origins of mise en scène: historical landmarks -- Steps in the evolution of mise en scène -- 2 On the frontiers of mise en scène -- The stage reading -- Non-mise en scène -- Improvised mise en scène -- 3 The difference between mise en scène and performance -- Mise en scène and performance: a shaky couple -- The current state of the performance and mise en scène relationship -- Four examples of cooperation -- Conclusions: performance studies/theatre studies -- 4 Tendencies in French scenography -- The powers of stage illusion -- Fantasy and the real -- Crossing the image -- The echoes of space -- The migration of subspaces -- The silence of space -- Concluding remarks -- 5 The mise en jeu of contemporary texts -- Combat de nègre et de chiens -- Papa doit manger -- Le bonheur du vent -- A tous ceux qui ... -- Conclusions -- 6 The intercultural trap: rituality and mise en scène in the video art of Guillermo Gómez-Peña -- Current context -- Ritual? -- Reverse anthropology? -- A body with variable identities? -- Mise en scène as the theatricalisation of rituals? -- 7 Theatre in another culture: a Korean example -- A season in heaven -- Korean theatre seen from afar -- 8 Media on the stage -- Theatre and media -- Technology/media -- Other media in performance -- Historical landmarks -- Possibilities for video on stage -- Effects of media on our perception -- Suggestions for the analysis of media in mise en scène -- Working hypotheses -- Three examples -- General conclusions -- 9 The deconstruction of postmodern mise en scène -- Impossible erasure of the palimpsest -- Deconstruction and the reconstruction of tradition
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The undecidability of meaning -- Crisis of representation and chorality -- In praise of the void and of slowness -- The degraded ritual of repetition -- To exit representation -- Deconstructing representation -- Conclusions: 'To have done with the judgement of god' (Artaud) and with deconstruction? -- 10 Physical theatre and the dramaturgy of the actor -- May B. by Maguy Marin: touched by the other -- Itsi Bitsi: the dramaturgy of the actress -- Les étourdis, La Cour des grands by Macha Makeïff and Jerôme Deschamps: the body in bits -- From the body art of the past to the multiple identities of the present -- Andromaque on the cutting edge: Michel Liard's art of looking and listening -- Les ephémères du soleil: inventing collectively -- 11 The splendour and the misery of interpreting the classics -- The 'classical effect' -- A tricky typology -- The end of the radical, fascination with the present -- New forms for old questions -- A new relationship with tradition -- Operating on the classics -- A few signs of the times -- General conclusions -- 12 Staging calamity: mise en scène and performance at Avignon 2005 -- L'histoire des larmes -- Je suis sang -- Dieu et les esprits vivants -- B.#03 Berlin -- Anathème -- Puur -- Mue -- The Biography Remix -- Final remarks -- 13 Conclusions: Where is mise en scène going? -- A winding path -- A contrasting state of affairs: the 1990s -- The mise en cause of mise en scène -- Directing and its doubles: doubling the director -- From the spectator to the theatrical assembly -- On faithfulness: or the difficult life of the couple that is text-performance -- Where are we going? -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Name Index -- Subject Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Pavis, Patrice Contemporary Mise en Scène Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2012 ISBN 9780415553438
Language:
English
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