Editorial Comment: Theatre, Performance, and Visual Images / Tompkins, Joanne

Tompkins, Joanne, «Editorial Comment: Theatre, Performance, and Visual Images». Theatre Journal, 69,  4, (2017), pp. xi-xv

Abstract
The visual image is now, thanks in part to high-quality cameras embedded in smart phones, ubiquitous in our lives, but the image has been a fixture in theatre and performance for almost as long as the technology has existed. Developments in image technology and the accessibility of historical images that can assist in extending our knowledge about theatre history suggest the need to revisit this topic critically. The essays in this special issue engage with the image in theatre and the image of theatre, such that Jim Davis and Diana Looser both refer in their essays herein directly to the doubled perspectives that images induce, while Sally Barnden quotes Barbara Hodgdon, who also makes this point about theatre images in particular. This double vision in some cases refers to audiences looking at the stage and being looked at; in other cases the doubleness is explicitly historicized by examining a similar topic through the distance of time.

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ISSN: 1086-332X
DOI: 10.1353/tj.2017.0064
URL: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/682785
Language: EN
key: 5VDI8AXX