| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
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| Title Information: |
corporeal/technological intersections in multimedia performance |
| Author: |
Parker-StarbuckJennifer, 1962- |
| Place of Publication: |
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York |
| Published: |
Palgrave Macmillan; |
| Year of Publication: |
c2011 |
| Description: |
1 online resource (xv, 241 p.)ill. : |
| Series: |
Performance interventions |
| Subject: |
Experimental theater. - |
| Subject: |
Cyborgs. - |
| Subject: |
Performing arts. - |
| Subject: |
Virtual reality. - |
| Subject: |
Technology and the arts. - |
| Subject: |
PERFORMING ARTS - Theater - |
| Subject: |
Cyborg theater |
| Online resource: |
http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230306523An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| Notes: |
Description based on print version record. |
| Summary: |
Cyborg Theatre investigates the role of bodies within the expanding field of multimedia performance. This innovative study articulates the first theoretical context for a 'cyborg theatre' that metaphorically integrates on-stage bodies with the technologized, digitized, or mediatized, to radically reimagine subjectivity in our posthuman age. Parker-Starbuck covers a variety of provocative examples, both historical and contemporary, to propose new theoretical tools for understanding performance in our changing world. She offers a compelling feminist-inspired argument for the ways in which a range of bodies appearing onstage with new technologies serve to challenge notions of identity and destabilize historical binaries. Through a variety of critical lenses, she considers the ways in which bodies are already integrated with technology and the questions this raises in and through performance. The focus on the body is a necessary theorizing of this emergent field, which is often understood solely through the technology on stage. |
| ISBN: |
9780230306523electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
0230306527electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
hardback |
| ISBN: |
hardback |
| Content Note: |
Introduction : why cyborg theatre? Backspace : historical/theoretical intersections Shifting the balance : "abject" bodies "Object of control" : framing the fragments Entering the view : triangulating "subject" bodies Conclusion : remembering bodies, becoming-cyborg. |