Theater, communication, critical realism
By: Tobin Nellhaus.
Series: What is theatre?
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9780230623637
Subjects: Theater -- Philosophy; Theater and society; Performing arts
Description: "From oral culture, through the advent of literacy, to the introduction of printing, to the development of electronic media, communication structures have radically altered culture in profound ways. As the first book to take a critical realist approach to culture, Theatre, Communication, Critical Realism examines theatre and its history through the interaction of society’s structures, agents, and discourses. Tobin Nellhaus shows that communication structure—a culture’s use and development of speech, handwriting, printing, and electronics—explains much about why, when, and how theatre has transformed."--Publisher's description.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Philosophy, history, theater; title: Orality, literacy, and early theater; title: Embodiment, agency, and performance strategies; title: Social ontology, (meta)theatricality, and the history of communication; title: Conclusion : new media, old problems.