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This book considers the semiotics practices at play in the performing arts and applies multimodal approaches commonly used in fields such as linguistics and literary theory to investigate and unpack the different semiotic resources that emerge from its various forms. The performing arts constitute dynamic and interactive environments that produce meaning on multiple levels, both in the forms themselves, but also within them, such as through the interactions in the actual performances, mise-en-scéne, lighting, music, and audience engagement, thereby providing a rich resource of theoretical avenues to explore through a multimodal approach. The first part of the volume details a number of theoretical and analytical frameworks, including social semotics, systemic functional theory, and pragmatics, and applies them to case studies taken from different performing arts, including dance; music, video, and film; and art exhibitions. The second part of the book looks at these different frameworks in practice in a number of sociocultural contexts, including explorations of 360 immersive video experiences in education, gender and sexuality in performance, and discursive performances about death. Combining a rigorous engagement with theoretical issues and empirical analyses of up-to-date case studies from a variety of performing arts, this book is an essential resource for scholars and researchers in multimodality, linguistics, performing arts, sociosemiotic studies, and communication.
Sommario
1 Mapping Multimodal Performance Studies: An Introduction
Maria Grazia Sindoni, Janina Wildfeuer, and Kay L. O’Halloran
2 Multimodal Semiotics of Theatrical Performances
Sabine Tan, Peter Wignell, and Kay L. O’Halloran
3 Making Meaning Through Movement: A Functional Grammar of Dance Movement
Arianna Maiorani
4 The Phantoms of the Opera: Towards a Multi-Dimensional Interpretative Framework of Analysis
Fabio Rossi and Maria Grazia Sindoni
5 The Eyes Have It: ‘In the Gaze … Everything Happened’
Maree Stenglin
6 Interactive Cognitive Subsystems and Dance: Choreographic Creativity
Rebecca Weber
7 Film Space as Theatrical Performing Space: A Multimodal Discourse Approach to Transmedial Analysis
Chiao-I Tseng
8 Who’s afraid of Conchita Wurst? Drag Performers and the Construction of Multimodal Prosody
Giuseppe Balirano
9 From Text to Performance: Discourse Analytical Thoughts on New Forms of Performances in Social Media
Janina Wildfeuer
Info autore
Maria Grazia Sindoni is Assistant Professor in English Linguistics and Translation at the University of Messina, Italy. She has published four books and several articles on systemic-functional linguistics, multimodality, critical discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, theories of semiosis of communication and computer-mediated interaction.
Janina Wildfeuer is a Researcher at Bremen University, Germany, in the areas of multimodal film and (digital) media studies as well as linguistics, discourse analysis, and semiotics. Her recent publications include a monograph on Film Discourse Interpretation from 2014 as well as several edited collections on multimodality and film analysis.
Kay L. O’Halloran is Professor in the School of Education, Faculty of Humanities at Curtin University. Her main research area is multimodal analysis, with a focus on digital and mixed methods approaches, mathematical and scientific discourse, and visual and multimodal literacy. She has established large interdisciplinary projects to develop interactive digital technologies and visualisation techniques.
Riassunto
This book is a first attempt to map the broad context of performance studies from a multimodal perspective. It collects original research on traditional performing arts (theatre, dance, opera), live (durational performance) and mediated/recorded performances (films, television shows), as well as performative discursive practices on social media by adopting several theories and methodologies all dealing with the notion of multimodality. As a mostly dynamic and also interactive environment for various text types and genres, the context of performance studies provides many opportunities to produce meaning verbally and non-verbally. All chapters in this book develop frameworks for the analysis of performance-related events and activities and explore empirical case studies in a range of different ages and cultures. A further focus lies on the communicative strategies deployed by different communities of practice, taking into account processes of production, distribution, and consumption of such texts in diverse spatial and temporal contexts.
