Performing Violence - Limits and Transformative Means in Staged Violence

This book offers an exhaustive approach to all forms of staged violence, and in-depth analysis of their emergence and repercussion (dramaturgically and physically).

List of contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Performing Violence: What Are the Limits of Staged Violence?
Chapter 1: Violence as Instrument, Violence as Object
Chapter 2: Does Violence Have Meaning?
Chapter 3: Images and Violence
Chapter 4: Counter-Violence, the Poetics of Inadequate Performances
Chapter 5: Mapping Violence
Conclusion: The Less Violent Embodiment of Violence
References
Index

About the author

Davide Giovanzana is a theatre director, researcher and lecturer in acting at Tampere University, Finland.

Summary

This book offers an exhaustive approach to all forms of staged violence, and in-depth analysis of their emergence and repercussion (dramaturgically and physically).

Product details

• Authors: Davide Giovanzana
• Assisted by: Davide Giovanzana (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.12.2024
• EAN: 9781032847597
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3284759-7
• No. of pages: 168
• Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Peace, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, ART / Performance, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Theatre Studies, Politics & government, Politics and government, Social and cultural anthropology, Peace studies and conflict resolution, Performance Art, Peace studies & conflict resolution, Performing Violence;Peace studies