Theory for Theatre Studies: Bodies
Theory for Theatre Studies: Bodies How does theatre shape the body and perceptions of it? Theory for Theatre Studies: Bodies responds to these questions by examining how theatre participates in and…
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Theory for Theatre Studies: Bodies
How does theatre shape the body and perceptions of it? Theory for Theatre Studies: Bodies responds to these questions by examining how theatre participates in and informs theories of the body in performance, race, queer, disability, trans, gender, and new media studies.Throughout the 20th century, theories of the body have shifted from understanding the body as irrefutable material evidence of race, sex, and gender, to a social construction constituted in language. How do bodies on stage challenge audience assumptions about material evidence and the truth?
It explores how theories of the body inform In the same period, theatre has struggled with representing ideas through live bodies while calling into question assumptions about the body.This volume demonstrates how theatre contributes to understanding the historical, contemporary and burgeoning theories of the body.