Simming - Participatory Performance and the Making of Meaning

Informationen zum Autor Scott Magelssen is Associate Professor of Drama and Performance Studies at the University of Washington Klappentext The immersive environments in which spectator-participants engage in simulations of various kinds - or "simming” - are the subject of Scott Magelssen's book. He lays out the ways in which simming can provide efficacy and promote social change through affective! embodied testimony. Using methodology from theatre history and performance studies Magelssen explores the ways these representational practices produce! reify! or contest cultural and societal perceptions of identity. Zusammenfassung How simulated experiences—from living history to emergency preparedness drills—create meaning in performance

Product details

• Authors: Scott Magelssen
• Publisher: University Of Michigan Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.05.2014
• EAN: 9780472052141
• ISBN: 978-0-472-05214-1
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories