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Performing Violence: Limits and Transformative Means in Staged Violence [Kõva köide]

  • Formaat: Hardback, 168 pages, kõrgus x laius: 234x156 mm, kaal: 453 g, 1 Halftones, black and white; 1 Illustrations, black and white
  • Sari: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
  • Ilmumisaeg: 24-Dec-2024
  • Kirjastus: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 103284759X
  • ISBN-13: 9781032847597
  • Formaat: Hardback, 168 pages, kõrgus x laius: 234x156 mm, kaal: 453 g, 1 Halftones, black and white; 1 Illustrations, black and white
  • Sari: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
  • Ilmumisaeg: 24-Dec-2024
  • Kirjastus: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 103284759X
  • ISBN-13: 9781032847597
"This book offers an exhaustive approach to all forms of staged violence, and in-depth analysis of their emergence and repercussion (dramaturgically and physically). This study explores instruments to surpass the dichotomic opposition victim-oppressor, to demystify the spell of violence, to get rid of the morbid voyeurism often connected to staged violence and eventually proposes transformative tools to explore empowering experiences through violence. Considering all the aspects of a theater performance engaging with staged violence (the story displaying violence, the actors' embodiment of violence, the spectators' experiences of being exposed to violence, the process of performing violence), this book proposes analytical and practical tools to explore the limit and to transform the experience of performing violence. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in theater and performance studies"--

This book offers an exhaustive approach to all forms of staged violence, and in-depth analysis of their emergence and repercussion (dramaturgically and physically).



This book offers an exhaustive approach to all forms of staged violence, and in-depth analysis of their emergence and repercussion (dramaturgically and physically).

This study explores instruments to surpass the dichotomic opposition victim-oppressor, to demystify the spell of violence, to get rid of the morbid voyeurism often connected to staged violence and eventually proposes transformative tools to explore empowering experiences through violence. Considering all the aspects of a theater performance engaging with staged violence (the story displaying violence, the actors’ embodiment of violence, the spectators’ experiences of being exposed to violence, the process of performing violence), this book proposes analytical and practical tools to explore the limit and to transform the experience of performing violence.

This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in theater and performance studies.

Arvustused

Davide Giovanzanas work at the crossroads of theater practice and theory has for more than two decades pushed for a new understanding of not just the performing arts and their research, but of excess and ethics in general. Performing Violence [ work title] is a highly recommendable read for scholars and practitioners in all arts, without forgetting philosophers, who might find interest in Giovanzanas novel way of reflecting on philosophical questions through experimental theater practice. Central for both traditional and digital theater, violence forces the audience to engage with the performance both psychologically and somatically. The topic might be a perennial one, but Giovanzanas hand-on methods of dealing with it provide new solid results, especially helpful for the practitioner.

Max Ryynänen, Principal Lecturer, Aalto University, Department of Art and Media

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1: Violence as Instrument, Violence as Object

Chapter 2: Does Violence Have Meaning?

Chapter 3: Images and Violence

Chapter 4: Counter-Violence, the Poetics of Inadequate Performances

Chapter 5: Mapping Violence

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Davide Giovanzana is a theatre director, researcher and lecturer in acting at Tampere University, Finland.