Staging Decadence

preview-18
  • Staging Decadence Book Detail

  • Author : Adam Alston
  • Release Date : 2023-09-07
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Genre : Performing Arts
  • Pages : 249
  • ISBN 13 : 135023706X
  • File Size : 19,19 MB

Staging Decadence by Adam Alston PDF Summary

Book Description: How is decadence being staged today – as a practice, issue, pejorative, and as a site of pleasure? Where might we find it, why might we look for it, and who is decadence for? This book is the first monographic study of decadence in theatre and performance. Adam Alston makes a passionate case for the contemporary relevance of decadence in the thick of a resurgent culture war by focusing on its antithetical relationship to capitalist-led growth, progress, and intensified productivity. He argues that the qualities used to disparage the study and practice of theatre and performance are the very things we should embrace in celebrating their value – namely, their spectacular uselessness, wastefulness, outmodedness, and abundant potential for producing forms of creativity that flow away from the ends and excesses of capitalism. Alston covers an eclectic range of examples by Julia Bardsley (UK), Hasard Le Sin (Finland), jaamil olawale kosoko (USA), Toco Nikaido (Japan), Martin O'Brien (UK), Toshiki Okada (Japan), Marcel·lí Antúnez Roca (Spain), Normandy Sherwood (USA), The Uhuruverse (USA), Nia O. Witherspoon (USA), and Wunderbaum (Netherlands). Expect ruminations on monstrous scenographies, catatonic choreographies, turbo-charged freneticism, visions of the apocalypse – and what might lie in its wake.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Staging Decadence books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

Staging Decadence

Staging Decadence

File Size : 70,70 MB
Total View : 9910 Views
DOWNLOAD

How is decadence being staged today – as a practice, issue, pejorative, and as a site of pleasure? Where might we find it, why might we look for it, and who is

Love and the Politics of Care

Love and the Politics of Care

File Size : 96,96 MB
Total View : 742 Views
DOWNLOAD

This edited volume offers a contemporary rethinking of the relationship between love and care in the context of neoliberal practices of professionalization and

Beyond Immersive Theatre

Beyond Immersive Theatre

File Size : 59,59 MB
Total View : 5142 Views
DOWNLOAD

Immersive theatre currently enjoys ubiquity, popularity and recognition in theatre journalism and scholarship. However, the politics of immersive theatre aesthe

Childhood Stories and Perspectives

Childhood Stories and Perspectives

File Size : 7,7 MB
Total View : 6324 Views
DOWNLOAD

Walter and Julia Alston were two parents with two different upbringings—one was from a family of means, and the other was from a family with very little. One

Staging Decadence

Staging Decadence

File Size : 18,18 MB
Total View : 5094 Views
DOWNLOAD

How is decadence being staged today – as a practice, issue, pejorative, and as a site of pleasure? Where might we find it, why might we look for it, and who is