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Costume in performance : materiality, culture, and the body /

"This beautifully illustrated book conveys the centrality of costume to live performance. Finding associations between contemporary practices and historical manifestations, costume is explored in six thematic chapters, examining the transformative ritual of costuming; choruses as reflective of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Barbieri, Donatella (Autor), Trimingham, Melissa, 1955- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The first costume: ritual and reinvention
  • Costuming choruses: spectacle and the social landscape on stage
  • The grotesque costume: the comical and conflicted 'other' body
  • The flight off the pedestal
  • Agency and empathy: artists touch the body / Melissa Trimingham
  • A different performativity: society, culture and history on stage.