228 Pages
by
Routledge
228 Pages
by
Routledge
228 Pages
by
Routledge
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Western culture has a long and fraught history of cultural appropriation, a history that has particular resonance within performance practice. Patrice Pavis asks what is at stake politically and aesthetically when cultures meet at the crossroads of theatre.? A series of major recent productions are analysed, including Peter Brook's Mahabharata , Cixous/Mnouchkine's Indiande , and Barba's Faust... Read more
Preface, 1 TOWARD A THEORY OF CULTURE AND MISE EN SCÈNE, 2 FROM PAGE TO STAGE: A DIFFICULT BIRTH, 3 THE CLASSICAL HERITAGE OF MODERN DRAMA: THE CASE OF POSTMODERN THEATRE, 4 ON THEORY AS ONE OF THE FINE ARTS AND ITS LIMITED INFLUENCE ON CONTEMPORARY DRAMA WHETHER MAJORITY OR MINORITY, 5 THEATRE AND THE MEDIA: SPECIFICITY AND INTERFERENCE, 6 TOWARD SPECIFYING THEATRE TRANSLATION, 7 DANCING WITH FAUST: REFLECTIONS ON AN INTERCULTURAL MISE EN SCÈNE BY EUGENIO BARBA, 8 INTERCULTURALISM IN CONTEMPORARY MISE EN SCÈ NE: THE IMAGE OF INDIA IN THE MAHABHARATA, THE INDIADE, TWELFTH NIGHT AND FAUST, Index
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Patrice Pavis
