Surviving Theatre - The Living Archive of Spectatorship

Written soon before and in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic when theatre ground to a halt and spectatorship was suspended, this book takes stock of spectatorship as theatre's living archive and affirms its value in the midst of the present crisis.

List of contents

1 Infinite Amounts of Remaining Time 2 Affect and the Spectator’s Body 3 Spect(r)ating Hamlet 4 Spectatorship at Work 5 Diasporics 6 The Manifold Archive of Shibboleth

About the author

Marco Pustianaz is Associate Professor of English Literature and Theatre at Università del Piemonte Orientale, Vercelli. He has published on queer theory and performance studies, and co-curated, with Giulia Palladini, Lexicon for an Affective Archive (2017).

Summary

Written soon before and in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic when theatre ground to a halt and spectatorship was suspended, this book takes stock of spectatorship as theatre’s living archive and affirms its value in the midst of the present crisis.

Product details

• Authors: Marco Pustianaz
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.09.2021
• EAN: 9780367407889
• ISBN: 978-0-367-40788-9
• No. of pages: 266
• Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, ART / Performance, Theatre Studies, Performance Art, The arts: general topics