Enter the Undead Author - Intellectual Property, the Ideology of Authorship, and Performance Practices since the 1960s

Enter the Undead Author explores the points of tension between the idea of authorship and the realities of theatrical production and other performance practices from the 1960s to the present with special focus on those moments when authorship helps to reappropriate revolutionary practices into traditional modes of production.

List of contents

Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1. 1984: The Author as Owner
Chapter 2. "A Necessary Myth": The Author as Individual
Chapter 3. Whose Joke Is It Anyway? The Author as Originator
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

About the author

George Pate is assistant professor of theater and drama in the Department of English, Theater, and Liberal Studies at the University of South Carolina at Beaufort.

Product details

• Authors: George Pate
• Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.03.2019
• EAN: 9781683931584
• ISBN: 978-1-68393-158-4
• No. of pages: 172
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 409 g
• Series: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Law, Culture, and the Humanities
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Literature: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Mercantile and commercial law