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Land/Scape/Theater

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ISBN-10: 0472067206

ISBN-13: 9780472067206

Edition: 2002

Authors: Elinor Fuchs, Una Chaudhuri

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With its broad theoretical range and cross-disciplinary reach, this text will interest theatre theorists and practitioners and cultural studies specialists, including historians of landscape.
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Book details

List price: $38.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication date: 12/3/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 402
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 1.012
Language: English

ELINOR FUCHS, a New York theater critic noted for her writing on contemporary experimental theater, is on the faculty of the School of the Arts at Columbia University and is Lecturer at the Yale School of Drama. She has also taught at Harvard University, New York University, and Emory University. She is editor of Plays of the Holocaust: An International Anthology, and co-author (with Joyce Antler) of the documentary play Year One of the Empire. Her essays have appeared in such publications as American Theatre, The Drama Review, Modern Drama, Theater, and Performing Arts Journal. She has been a contributor to The Village Voice since 1982.

Chaudhuri is Professor of English and Chair of the Drama Department at New York University.

Introduction: Land/Scape/Theater and the New Spatial Paradigm
Land/Scape/Theory
Reading for Landscape: The Case of American Drama
"Haunted by Places": Landscape in Three Plays of William Butler Yeats
"All the Dead Voices": The Landscape of Famine in Waiting for Godot
Urban Landscapes, Theatrical Encounters: Staging the City
The Composition That All the World Can See: Gertrude Stein's Theater Landscapes
After Stein: Traveling the American Theatrical "Langscape"
Robert Wilson, Nicolas Poussin, and Lohengrin
Staging the Geographic Imagination: Imperial Melodrama and the Domestication of the Exotic
Under the Brown Tent: Chautauqua in the Community Landscape
Artaud in the Sierra Madre: Theatrical Bodies, Primitive Signs, Ritual Landscapes
Bayreuth, Disneyland, and the Return to Nature
Bordering Space
Landscapes of the Unseen: Turn-of-the-Century Symbolism from Paris to Petersburg
The Sonic Landscapes of Robert Ashley
E-scapes: Performance in the Time of Cyberspace
Contributors
Index