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    Liveness : Performance in a Mediatized Culture

    Auslander, Philip, Liveness : Performance in a Mediatized Culture, Routledge, 2008 Abstract Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture addresses what may be the single most important question facing all kinds of performance today. What is the status Other data Number of pages: ISBN: 978-0-203-93813-3 ISSN: DOI: URL: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780203938133 Language: en key: A2IQ6MQ7

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    The Theatre of Photography

    Anderson, Joel; Leister, Wiebke, The Theatre of Photography, Taylor and Francis, 2018 Abstract Monographic issue of the journal “Photogrpahy and Culture” dedicated to Theatre and Photography. Taking as a starting point the opposition of this journal’s title, this introduction takes the form of a dialogue that is also an encounter between photography and theatre, a vantage point from which conceptual frameworks can be challenged and even collapsed. In the domains of photography and of theatre, much is made of artifice, authenticity, likeness, and liveness. Photography criticism has often emphasized the possibility or impossibility of veracity, the truthfulness or deceptiveness of photographs, with performance seemingly offering one escape route. Theatre, from…

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    The silver stage: Theatre in the age of mechanical reproduction

    Bleam, Jeffrey Robert, «The silver stage: Theatre in the age of mechanical reproduction». Ph.D., , Ann Arbor, United States 2005 Abstract Implicit in its subtitle (“Theatre in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”), this study begins with a rejection of Walter Benjamin’s assurance that the theatrical arts are immune from the ideological processes inherent in mechanical reproduction. I seek to argue that as theatre artists and encultured subjects in general, we process information and form perceptual strategies through a series of frames created and encouraged by the representational field of the larger visual culture at specific times and societies. I contend that these frames and strategies do not change over time…

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    Mediated Presence: Performance Art and Technology

    Khalifeh, Soulaf, «Mediated Presence: Performance Art and Technology». , , Abstract The whole tendency of modern communication whether in the press, in advertising or in the high arts is towards participation in a process, rather than the apprehension of concepts. And this major revolution, intimately linked to technology, is one whose consequences have not begun to be studied although they have begun to be felt.” Recalling McLuhan’s words, this paper is an attempt to study the effects and consequences of technology and how it allowed performance artists greater flexibility in experimenting with space, time and representation, engaging in a social and institutional critique. The pertinent questions here are: how are…

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