Theatre as voyeurism
Subtitle: the pleasures of watching
By: Edited by George Rodosthenous, University of Leeds, UK
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9781137478801
Subjects: PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism; Theater audiences; Psychology; Voyeurism
Description: "Theatre as Voyeurism usefully (re)defines the notion of voyeurism as an 'exchange' between performers and audience members in contemporary theatre and performance. Pleasure (erotic and/or aesthetic) is here privileged as a crucial factor in the way meaning is produced in the encounter with a theatrical work. George Rodosthenous has drawn together an intriguing selection of authors and the ten chapters make a significant contribution to the overarching critical project of assessing the value of approaching theatre through - and as - voyeurism. The authors focus on a range of case studies including specific theatre artists such as Jan Fabre, Romeo Castellucci, Ann Liv Young, Olivier Dubois and Punchdrunk. This edited volume is therefore relevant to prospective readers interested in various aspects of visual experience in the theatre today"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Introduction: Staring at the Forbidden: Legitimising Voyeurism; George Rodosthenous; title: PART I: VOYEURISM AND DIRECTING THE GAZE; title: 1. Always Looking Back at the Voyeur: Jan Fabre's Extreme Acts on Stage; Laurens de Vos; title: 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; title: PART II: VOYEURISM IN SPACE; title: 3. Intimacy, Immersion and the Desire to Touch: The Voyeur Within; David Shearing; title: 4. In Between the Visible and the Hidden: Modalities of Seeing in Site-specific Performance; William McEvoy; title: PART III: VOYEURISM AND ACTS OF WATCHING; title: 5. The Pleasure of Looking Behind Curtains: Naked Bodies from Titian to Fabre and LeRoy; Luk Van Den Dries; title: 6. Baring All on Stage: Active Encounters with Voyeurism, Performance Aesthetics and 'Absorbed Acts of Seeing'; Fiona Bannon; title: PART IV: VOYEURISM AND EXHIBITING THE BODY; title: 7. Thinking critical/Looking Sexy: a naked white male body in performance; Daniël Ploeger; title: 8. Viewing the Pornographic Theatre: Explicit Voyeurism, Artaud, and Ann Liv Young's Cinderella; Aaron C. Thomas; title: PART V: VOYEURISM AND NAKED BODIES; title: 9. 'Music for the eyes' in Hair: Tracing the history of the naked singing body on stage; Tim Stephenson; title: 10. Outlying Islands as theatre of voyeurism: Ornithologists, naked bodies and the 'pleasure of peeping'; George Rodosthenous; title: Index.