Theatre as voyeurism : the pleasures of watching /: the pleasures of watching. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: [edited by] George Rodosthenous, University of Leeds, UK.
• Editors: Rodosthenous, George, 1973-
• Contents: Introduction: Staring at the Forbidden: Legitimising Voyeurism; George Rodosthenous -- PART I: VOYEURISM AND DIRECTING THE GAZE -- 1. Always Looking Back at the Voyeur: Jan Fabre's Extreme Acts on Stage; Laurens de Vos -- 2. The Dramaturgies of the Gaze: Strategies of Vision and Optical Revelations in the Theatre of Romeo Castellucci and the Soc︡etas Raffaello Sanzio; Eleni Papalexiou -- PART II: VOYEURISM IN SPACE -- 3. Intimacy, Immersion and the Desire to Touch: The Voyeur Within; David Shearing -- 4. In Between the Visible and the Hidden: Modalities of Seeing in Site-specific Performance; William McEvoy -- PART III: VOYEURISM AND ACTS OF WATCHING -- 5. The Pleasure of Looking Behind Curtains: Naked Bodies from Titian to Fabre and LeRoy; Luk Van Den Dries -- 6. Baring All on Stage: Active Encounters with Voyeurism, Performance Aesthetics and 'Absorbed Acts of Seeing'; Fiona Bannon -- PART IV: VOYEURISM AND EXHIBITING THE BODY -- 7. Thinking critical/Looking Sexy: a naked white male body in performance; Dani︠l Ploeger -- 8. Viewing the Pornographic Theatre: Explicit Voyeurism, Artaud, and Ann Liv Young's Cinderella; Aaron C. Thomas -- PART V: VOYEURISM AND NAKED BODIES -- 9. 'Music for the eyes' in Hair: Tracing the history of the naked singing body on stage; Tim Stephenson -- 10. Outlying Islands as theatre of voyeurism: Ornithologists, naked bodies and the 'pleasure of peeping'; George Rodosthenous.
• Publisher Details: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 792.01; Theater audiences -- Psychology; Voyeurism; Theatre studies; Theater audiences -- Psychology; Voyeurism; Voyeurismus; Zuschauer; Theater; Performing Arts; Performing Arts -- Theater -- History & Criticism; Performing Arts -- Theater -- General; Art -- General; The arts: general issues; Performing arts; Theater; Arts; Performing Arts -- General; Dance & other performing arts; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137478818; 1137478810
• Related ISBNs: 9781349502356; 1349502359; 9781137478801; 1137478802
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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