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Theatre at the crossroads of culture
Patrice Pavis
Arts - performing | visual Routledge 0415060389 Available
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Annotation: Pavis analyses the political and aesthetic consequences of cultures meeting at the crossroads of theatre, looking at productions including Brook's Mahabharata, Cixous/Mnouchkine's Indiande, and Barba's Faust.
Identifier: 0415060389
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The semiotic stage
Michael L. Quinn
Arts - performing | visual Peter Lang Publishing 0820418773 Available
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Other title information: Prague school theatre theory
Annotation: The semiotic stage provides the first comprehensive summary of the writings that founded the contemporary theater semiotics. The Prague School theater writings are placed in their theoretical context, and intergrated in relation to major artistic areas like acting, design and dramatic writing. The influence of the Prague School and its relation to the current state of theater study are also thoroughly discussed.
Identifier: 0820418773
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The semiotics of theater
Erika Fischer-Lichte
Arts - performing | visual Indiana University Press 0253322375 Available
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Notes: Originally published in three volumes as Semiotik des Theaters (1983)
Annotation: The theater is a particularly privileged semiotic object. Unlike literature or painting which operate within a single sign-system, theater combines a variety of sign-systems - language and gesture, costume and decoration, music and lighting - each of which generates meaning according to different principles. This complexity creates special challenges for understanding theater as a meaning-generating system. Erika Fischer-Lichte's book examines each of the sign-systems of the theater and investigates the ways they relate to one another. The result is a brilliant articulation of a semiotics of theater
Identifier: 0253322375
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Semiotics of Theater
Marvin Carlson
In: The Semiotic Web 1987
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- 323-354
The Semiotic Web