Performing Specimens: Contemporary Performance And Biomedical Display (Performance and Science: Interdisciplinary Dialogues) - Hardcover

Bouchard, Dr Gianna

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 135003567X ISBN 13: 9781350035676

Verlag: Methuen Drama, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

This book explores the staging and the display of the 'body as specimen' in contemporary performance practice and within wider culture, focusing on the ethics of display and spectatorship.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Gianna Bouchard is Professor of Contemporary Performance at the University of Birmingham, UK. Her interdisciplinary research explores the interface between medicine and performance. She is the author of Performing Specimens: Biomedical Display in Contemporary Performance (Methuen Drama, 2020).

John Lutterbie was Professor Emeritus in the Department of Theatre Arts and the Department of Art at Stony Brook University, USA. He was the director of the International Network for Cognition, Theatre and Performance and with Nicola Shaughnessy was the series editor of the Performance and Science: Interdisciplinary Dialogues series.

Nicola Shaughnessy is Professor of Performance at the University of Kent. She is Director of the Research Centre for Cognition, Kinesthetics and Performance and is leading the AHRC funded project 'Imagining Autism.'

She is the author of Applying Performance (2012), Gertrude Stein (2007) and co-editor of Margaret Woffington (2008).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Methuen Drama
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 135003567X
• ISBN 13: 9781350035676
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192
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