Theatre as voyeurism : the pleasures of watching /
Theatre as Voyeurism usefully (re)defines the notion of voyeurism as an 'exchange' between performers and audience members in contemporary theatre and performance. Pleasure (erotic and/or aesthetic) is here privileged as a crucial factor in the way meaning is produced in the encounter with...
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2015.
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Table of 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 Socetas 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; Daniël 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
- Index.