The Actor in Costume - Softcover

Monks, Aoife

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0230217001 ISBN 13: 9780230217003

Verlag: Palgrave, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

A critical engagement with the ways in which audiences look at actors onstage, offering new insights into the theatrical roles of identity, dress and fashion

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'This lively, ambitious, and readable book frames costume as an essential element in the understanding and imagination of theatrical embodiment; much more than a treatment of costume design and history, The Actor in Costume makes an immediate difference to our thinking about performance today.'- W. B. Worthen, Alice Brady Pels Professor in the Arts, Barnard College, Columbia University, USA
 
'The Actor in Costume achieves its aim in...offering fresh ways to think about theatre through the fundamental process of costuming.' - TLS
 
'...an exploration of theatrical signification that takes costuming as its point of reference...the book is a very engaging conversation-starter that proposes a new and vital way of talking about theatrical costuming, an approach that accords to stage wear the theoretical and historical weight it surely deserves.' - Contemporary Theatre Review
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Reseña del editor:

How do audiences look at actors in costume onstage? How does costume shape theatrical identity and form bodies? What do audiences wear to the theatre? This lively and cutting-edge book explores these questions, and engages with the various theoretical approaches to the study of actors in performance. Aoife Monks focuses in particular on the uncanny ways in which costume and the actor's body are indistinguishable in the audience's experience of a performance.

From the role of costume in Modernist theatre to the actor's position in the fashion system, from nudity to stage ghosts, this wide-ranging exploration of costume, and its histories, argues for the centrality of costume to the spectator's experience at the theatre. Drawing on examples from paintings, photographs, live performances, novels, reviews, blogs and plays, Monks presents a vibrant analysis of the very peculiar work that actors and costumes do on the stage.

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• Verlag: Palgrave
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0230217001
• ISBN 13: 9780230217003
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 172