Directing Postmodern Theater Shaping Signification in Performance |
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Author:
| Whitmore, Jon |
ISBN: | 978-0-472-06557-8 |
Publication Date: | Jun 1994 |
Publisher: | University of Michigan Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $27.95 |
Book Description:
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Brings together critical theory and contemporary theater practice to provide valuable tools for directing in today's expansive performance world. It identifies the key communications systems at work in the theatre: linguistic, visual, aural, olfactoral, and physical. Further, it pinpoints and examines twenty semiotic sign-systems that can be manipulated by directors to bring about meaningful communications.
Brings together critical theory and contemporary theater practice to provide valuable tools for directing in today's expansive performance world. It identifies the key communications systems at work in the theatre: linguistic, visual, aural, olfactoral, and physical. Further, it pinpoints and examines twenty semiotic sign-systems that can be manipulated by directors to bring about meaningful communications.