Schweitzer, Marlis
Performing Objects and Theatrical Things
1. Introduction: Object Lessons
Marlis Schweitzer, Joanne Zerdy
Part I. Archival Digs
2. Technology and Wonder in Thirteenth-Century Iberia and Beyond
Christopher Swift
3. “Nothing but a string of beads”: Maud Allan’s Salomé Costume as a “choreographic thing”
Marlis Schweitzer
4. Cartomania and the Scriptive Album: Cartes-de-Visite as Objects of Social Practice
Nicole Berkin
5. The Linguistic Animation of an American Yorick
Lezlie C. Cross
6. House Arrest: Museological Performance, Animacy, and the Remains of Rural America
Margaret Werry
Part II. Embodied Research Practices
7. The Unfolding Roles of a Walking Map within NVA’s
Joanne Zerdy
8. Military Memorialization and its Object(s) of Period Purification
Helene Vosters
9. Entided, Enwatered, Enwinded: Human/More-than-Human Agencies in Site-specific Performance
Minty Donald
Part III. Materialist Semiotics
10. “All Transparent”: Pepper’s Ghost, Plate Glass, and Theatrical Transformation
Aileen Robinson
11. Que(e)rying Theatrical Objects
Benjamin Gillespie
12. Making the Invisible Visible: Virtual Stage Props and Christopher Marlowe’s
Joanne Tompkins
13. Relic, Souvenir, or Just Hair?: Exploring the Complexities of Objects as Actants and Things as Mementos in the Merchandise of El Vez, The Mexican Elvis
Karen Jean Martinson
Part IV. Excavating Between the Lines
14. Props Breaking Character: The Performance and Failure of Real Objects on the Naturalist Stage
Kee-Yoon Nahm
15. Bodied Objects: An Analysis of the Whip in George Aiken’s
Chandra Owenby Hopkins
16. Translocalized Drums: Mobilizing the Intercultural in the
Leo Cabranes-Grant
Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Theatre History, Performing Arts, Arts, Theatre and Performance Studies
- Editor
- Schweitzer, Marlis
- Zerdy, Joanne
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2014
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 279 pages
- Category
- Art, Art History
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781137402455
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-48670-0