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Informationen zum Autor Ron J. Popenhagen is Professor of Visual Culture and Performance at California State University. He formerly lectured in Theatre at the University of Southern California and the Sydney University Conservatorium of Music. Dr Popenhagen is a specialist in Actor-Training, Mise en scène, Masks and Masquerade. He has published on French and Swiss actors, choreographers, directors, playwrights and scenographers, and also on Irish literature. Popenhagen has staged opera and theatre productions of Cocteau, Ionesco, Molière, Shakespeare and Wilde in Australia and the States. He has toured devised theatre projects to festivals in Adelaide, Ankara, Edinburgh, Houston, Los Angeles, Vancouver and Vilnius. Ron has written, devised and directed theatre projects for the Australian Theatre for Young People and toured 'Informances' for Young Audiences, Inc. to American cities. Klappentext Analyses the expansion of head and body masking from nineteenth-century Paris to its international maturity in contemporary cultureThis book highlights that masquerade can be regarded as a distinct genre of performance activity that employs elements of the carnivalesque, circus, dance, gestural theatre and theatre of objects. Popenhagen traces artistic disguising from fin de siècle Pierrots in Paris, Marseille and Vienna to early twentieth--century masquerading in Moscow and Zürich. He explores identity play and display through the complementary lenses of image studies, cultural history and performance theory.Ron J. Popenhagen is Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Humanities and Performance at California State University. Zusammenfassung This book highlights that masquerade can be regarded as a distinct genre of performance activity that employs elements of the carnivalesque, circus, dance, gestural theatre and theatre of objects. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Impressions of the Covered Body; 2. Facing Change and Changing Masks; 3. Re-formed and Uni-formed Bodies; 4. Feigned and Distorted Bodyscapes; 5. Actor-Effigies and Photo-Portraits; 6. Fractured and Effaced Façades; 7. Other Places; Bibliography; Index....
