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: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2021
• EAN: 9781683931607
• ISBN: 978-1-68393-160-7
• No. of pages: 172
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 259 g
• Series: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Law, Culture, and the Humanities
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Mercantile and commercial law