Theatre as Voyeurism [electronic resource] : The Pleasures of Watching /
Rodosthenous, G.editor.
Theatre as Voyeurism (re)defines voyeurism as an 'exchange' between performers and audience members, privileging pleasure (erotic and aesthetic) as a crucial factor in contemporary theatre. This intriguing group of essays focuses on artists such as Jan Fabre, Romeo Castellucci, Ann Liv Young, Olivier Dubois and Punchdrunk.
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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
Theatre as Voyeurism (re)defines voyeurism as an 'exchange' between performers and audience members, privileging pleasure (erotic and aesthetic) as a crucial factor in contemporary theatre. This intriguing group of essays focuses on artists such as Jan Fabre, Romeo Castellucci, Ann Liv Young, Olivier Dubois and Punchdrunk.
Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction: Staring at the Forbidden: Legitimising Voyeurism; George Rodosthenous -- PART I: VOYEURISM AND DIRECTING THE GAZE -- 1. Always Looking Back at the Voyeur: Jan Fabre's Extreme Acts on Stage; Laurens de Vos -- 2. The Dramaturgies of the Gaze: Strategies of Vision and Optical Revelations in the Theatre of Romeo Castellucci and the Socetas Raffaello Sanzio; Eleni Papalexiou -- PART II: VOYEURISM IN SPACE -- 3. Intimacy, Immersion and the Desire to Touch: The Voyeur Within; David Shearing -- 4. In Between the Visible and the Hidden: Modalities of Seeing in Site-specific Performance; William McEvoy -- PART III: VOYEURISM AND ACTS OF WATCHING -- 5. The Pleasure of Looking Behind Curtains: Naked Bodies from Titian to Fabre and LeRoy; Luk Van Den Dries -- 6. Baring All on Stage: Active Encounters with Voyeurism, Performance Aesthetics and 'Absorbed Acts of Seeing'; Fiona Bannon -- PART IV: VOYEURISM AND EXHIBITING THE BODY -- 7. Thinking critical/Looking Sexy: a naked white male body in performance; Daniël Ploeger -- 8. Viewing the Pornographic Theatre: Explicit Voyeurism, Artaud, and Ann Liv Young's Cinderella; Aaron C. Thomas -- PART V: VOYEURISM AND NAKED BODIES -- 9. 'Music for the eyes' in Hair: Tracing the history of the naked singing body on stage; Tim Stephenson -- 10. Outlying Islands as theatre of voyeurism: Ornithologists, naked bodies and the 'pleasure of peeping'; George Rodosthenous -- Index.
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