[spectre] Intermediality in Theatre and Performance

[Geert Lovink]

> Intermediality in Theatre and Performance.
> IFTR/FIRT. Theatre and Intermediality Working Group.
> Edited by Freda Chapple and Chiel Kattenbelt.
> Amsterdam/New York, NY 2006. 266 pp. (Themes in Theatre 2)
> ISBN: 90-420-1629-9 € 54,-/US$ 68,-
>
> Intermediality: the incorporation of digital technology into theatre 
> practice, and the presence of film, television and digital media in 
> contemporary theatre is a significant feature of twentieth-century 
> performance. Presented here for the first time is a major collection 
> of essays, written by the Theatre and Intermediality Research Group of 
> the International Federation for Theatre Research, which assesses 
> intermediality in theatre and performance. The book draws on the 
> history of ideas to present a concept of intermediality as an 
> integration of thoughts and medial processes, and it locates 
> intermediality at the inter-sections situated in-between the 
> performers, the observers and the confluence of media, medial spaces 
> and art forms involved in performance at a particular moment in time. 
> Referencing examples from contemporary theatre, cinema, television, 
> opera, dance and puppet theatre, the book puts forward a thesis that 
> the intermedial is a space where the boundaries soften and we are 
> in-between and within a mixing of space, media and realities, with 
> theatre providing the staging space for intermediality. The book 
> places theatre and performance at the heart of the ‘new media’ debate 
> and will be of keen interest to students, with clear relevance to 
> undergraduates and post- graduates in Theatre Studies and Film and 
> Media Studies, as well as the theatre research community.
> Series: Themes in Theatre - Collective Approaches to Theatre and 
> Performance.
> Series Editor: Peter G.F. Eversmann
> Editorial Board: Temple Hauptfleisch, Hans van Maanen, Nicholas Ridout.
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