Livecasting in Twenty-First-Century British Theatre : NT Live and the Aesthetics of Spectacle, Materiality and Engagement /: NT Live and the Aesthetics of Spectacle, Materiality and Engagement. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Heidi Lucja Liedke.
• Authors: Liedke, Heidi Lucja
• Contents: List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction: Locating Livecasting – Twenty-First Century British Theatre on the ThresholdLocating LivecastingConstructing the LiveDistractions, Slippages and Turns: Spectacle – ArchiveResearch OverviewAims and Structure of the BookPart I: Spectacle and MaterialityChapter 1. Old New Media: The Optionality of the Theatre Space and Different Forms of Embodiment in Early Live Theatre and Music BroadcastingEarly Broadcasting Technologies as SubstitutesAcousmatic Livecasting in the Nineteenth Century: Visual LandscapesNot A Substitute for the Real Thing – The NT's Dip Into Broadcasting in the 1940s and 1950sThe Launch of NT LiveThen and Now: The Fifth AuditoriumChapter 2. Watching Others Having Fun – Livecasting as SpectacleThe Best of British TheatreSpectacle and Theatre on Screens – Images and DeceptionSports Events, Spectacle and NT LiveFraming Livecasting: Mediated Spectacle and CommunitasLivecasting as Affective Spectacle: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Bridge Theatre/NT Live) Chapter 3. Capturing the Atmosphere: The Material-TheatricalA Word on Wires, Screens and Electricians from a Brechtian PerspectiveTheatrical and Cinematic Modes – Filmed TheatreSpatially Extended Atmospheres: The Materiality of the Theatrical Space ShiftsMaking the Theatrical Experience Porous: Stuttering ScreensPART II: EngagementChapter 4. Livecasting, Liveness, and the Feeling ISpectator-Centric Theatre and Modes of Engagement with LivecastsLivecasts, Liveness and 'We' Bakhtinian and Benjaminian Traces-Fabrics of EngagementI Feel, Therefore I am (a Spectator) Chapter 5. Quasi-Experts in the Context of LivecastingImmediacy and AfterlifeQuasi-Experts at Work: Liveness and After-Liveness Enabled by Social MediaWe Are In It Together: Critiquing the Experience OnlineAgainst a Stagnation of TheatreChapter 6. Covidian Theatre: The Move to Small Screens and into HomesMasks and Socially Distanced TheatreViral Affect on ScreensCovidian TheatreRetrospective Synchronicity and NT At HomeChapter 7. Concluding Discussion and Future Directions: What Remains of Livecasting? Responsible Responsiveness and LivenessWhat Remains of Livecasting? Works CitedIndex.
• Publisher Details: London : Methuen Drama
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (256 pages)
• Subjects: Films, cinema; Performing Arts -- Theater -- History & Criticism; Performing Arts -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism; Theatre studies
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781350340978; 1350340979
• Related ISBNs: 9781350340961
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