Theatre as Technology
Apparatus, Nostalgia, Obsolescence
Seiten
2025
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-64735-9 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-64735-9 (ISBN)
In this paradigm-shifting study, W. B. Worthen shows how the dynamics of obsolescence and affective nostalgia that shape the passing of technologies into history also shape and reshape theatrical practice, covering topics as diverse as Zoom theatre, the proscenium, and artificial intelligence in theatre making.
Theatre does not merely use technology – it is a technology. In this paradigm-shifting study, W. B. Worthen shows how the dynamics of obsolescence and affective nostalgia that shape the passing of technologies into history also shape and reshape theatrical practice. Locating theatre within rather than outside the orbit of media studies, Theatre as Technology traces the theatre's absorption of, and absorption by, digital culture. Treating subjects as wide-ranging as pandemic-era Zoom theatre, on-stage video and sound technologies, and artificial intelligence, Worthen locates a moment of transformational change in the idea of the theatre, change prompted by the theatre's always-changing, and so always obsolescing, material technologies.
Theatre does not merely use technology – it is a technology. In this paradigm-shifting study, W. B. Worthen shows how the dynamics of obsolescence and affective nostalgia that shape the passing of technologies into history also shape and reshape theatrical practice. Locating theatre within rather than outside the orbit of media studies, Theatre as Technology traces the theatre's absorption of, and absorption by, digital culture. Treating subjects as wide-ranging as pandemic-era Zoom theatre, on-stage video and sound technologies, and artificial intelligence, Worthen locates a moment of transformational change in the idea of the theatre, change prompted by the theatre's always-changing, and so always obsolescing, material technologies.
W. B. Worthen is Alice Brady Pels Professor in the Arts at Barnard College, Columbia University. A distinguished scholar and theorist of modern performance, his work on the intersection of ideology and materiality in modern drama and in modern Shakespeare performance takes in the practices of acting, dramatic writing, print and digital media, film and television, and the stage. He has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Guggenheim Foundation.
1. Theatre as technology; 2. Zoom(ing) Theatre; or, Theatreness; 3. The whirligig of tech: theatricalizing technology at the Wooster group; 4. Proscenium subjects; 5. Theatre and the artifice of the human; Works cited.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 02.12.2025 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Gewicht | 485 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-009-64735-0 / 1009647350 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-009-64735-9 / 9781009647359 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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