Performing mountains / Jonathan Pitches.
Launching the landmark Performing Landscapes series, Performing Mountains brings together for the first time Mountain Studies and Performance Studies in order to examine an international selection of dramatic responses to mountain landscapes. Moving between different registers of writing, the book o...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2020]
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| Series: | Performing landscapes.
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| Online Access: | Springer Humanities and Social Science eBook Collection 2020 English/International |
| Summary: | Launching the landmark Performing Landscapes series, Performing Mountains brings together for the first time Mountain Studies and Performance Studies in order to examine an international selection of dramatic responses to mountain landscapes. Moving between different registers of writing, the book offers a critical assessment of how the cultural turn in landscape studies interacts with the practices of environmental theatre and performance. Conceived in three main parts, it begins by unpicking the layers of disciplinary complexity in both fields, before surveying the rich history and practice of rituals, playtexts and site specific works inspired by mountains. The last section moves to a unique analysis of mountains themselves using key concepts from performance: training, scenography, acting and spectatorship. Threaded throughout is a very personal tale of mountain research, offering a handrail or alternative guide through the book. |
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| Item Description: | Conclusion. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (319 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1137556005 9781137556004 1137556013 9781137556011 |