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Buch (Hardcover): Fachbuch
Beckett, Performance and the Miming Body in Theatre, Film and Television
Verlag:
Edinburgh University Press Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P35268689
EAN: 9781399551298
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Zustellung: Mi, 28.10.2026
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Beschreibung
Taking Beckett's mimes as a departure point, this book questions the value of his close attention to and choreography of the body for performance. It examines how Beckett's encounters with the traditions of twentieth-century French mime impacted his theatrical imagination and directorial practices, exploring his uses of the miming body across a wide range of postwar works for theatre, film and television. Investigating the significances of movement, gesture and posture, the study emphasises what is embodied, kinetic and performed in Beckett's work, keeping a steady gaze on the peculiarities of miming bodies to tease out and turn over their expressive capacities. Drawing on phenomenological philosophy, poststructural theory, performance analysis and historical literature, Jonathan McAllister argues that Beckett's dramatic works provide a bodily commentary on being in mid- to late twentieth-century Europe: they constitute an embodied philosophical inquiry into the questions and anxieties for a generation experiencing a profound crisis of meaning.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Jonathan McAllister
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2026
Format
- Buch (Hardcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 240