Enter the Undead Author: Intellectual Property, the Ideology of Authorship, and Performance Practices since the 1960s Pate George
Enter the Undead Author: Intellectual Property, the Ideology of Authorship, and Performance Practices since the 1960s Pate George Many narratives of theater history suggest that the 1960s marked the…
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Enter the Undead Author: Intellectual Property, the Ideology of Authorship, and Performance Practices since the 1960s Pate George
Many narratives of theater history suggest that the 1960s marked the start of a turning away from traditional, script-based, playwright-centric production practices. But the author refused to die quietly, and authorship reasserts itself in even revolutionary and avant-garde theaters throughout the latter half of the twentieth century. Literary studies in this period began exploring the concept of the "death of the author" along similar lines.
This ideology of authorship plays a part in playwrights shutting down productions of their own plays, in the privileging of individual authorship over The model of authorship--valorizing individuality, ownership, and originality--serves to maintain traditional modes of production that reproduce and uphold dominant ideologies even when the products created by those modes of production claim to buck tradition or run counter to cultural currents.