Theatricality as medium / Samuel Weber.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Weber, Samuel, 1940-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2004.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: theatricality as medium
  • Theatrocracy; or surviving the break
  • Technics, theatricality, installation
  • Scene and screen: electronic media and theatricality /
  • Antigone's Nomos
  • The place of death: Oedipus at Colonus
  • Storming the work: allegory and theatricality in Benjamin's Origin of the German Mourning Play
  • "Ibi et ubique": the incontinent plot (Hamlet)
  • Kierkegaard's Posse
  • After the end: Adorno
  • Psychoanalysis and theatricality
  • "The virtual reality of Theater": Antonin Artaud
  • Double take: acting and writing in Genet's "The strange word Urb"
  • "Being . . . and eXistenZ": some preliminary considerations on theatricality in film
  • "War," "Terrorism," and "spectacle": on towers and caves
  • Stages and plots: theatricality after September 11, 2001.