{"product_id":"scenography-expanded-9781474244398","title":"Scenography Expanded","description":"\u003ch2\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the 2019 TaPRA Edited Collection Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eScenography Expanded\u003c\/i\u003e is a foundational text offering readers a thorough introduction to contemporary performance design, both in and beyond the theatre. It examines the potential of the visual, spatial, technological, material and environmental aspects of performance to shape performative encounters. It analyses examples of scenography as sites of imaginative exchange and transformative experience and it discusses the social, political and ethical dimensions of performance design. The international range of contributors and case studies provide clear perspectives on why scenographic design has become a central consideration for performance makers today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe extended introduction defines the characteristics of 21st-century scenography and examines the scope and potentials of this new field. Across five sections, the volume provides examples and case studies which richly illustrate the scope of contempo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/h2\u003e[An] excellent and comprehensive collection [that's] suitable as introduction for undergraduates and for developing ideas, histories and approaches for researchers. * Paul Geary, University of Birmingham, UK *\u003cbr\u003eThe collection of essays make for an engaging and accessible examination of the myriad possibilities of the way scenography can be framed. These topics will certainly act as a catalyst for discussions on the ways in which my students will contextualise their own practice. * Andy Hurst, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK *\u003cbr\u003eAn excellent, contemporary introduction to scenography. * Kit Lane, University of Derby, UK *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch2\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/h2\u003eIllustrations   Contributors   Acknowledgements   Foreword – Arnold Aronson    Introducing ‘Expanded’ Scenography  - Joslin McKinney and Scott Palmer    Section 1: TECHNOLOGICAL SPACE  1 Devices of Wonder: globalizing technologies in the process of scenography - Christopher Baugh (University of Leeds, UK)  2 Screen Space: Bearing Witness \u0026amp; Performing Resistance - Dorita Hannah (University of Tasmania, Australia)    Section 2: ARCHITECTURAL SPACE   3 Between Symbolic Representation and New Critical Realism: Architecture as                Scenography and Scenography as Architecture - Thea Brejzek (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia)  4 City as Site: Street Performance and Site Permeability during the Festival Internacional Teatro a Mil, Chile, 2012-2015 - Marcela Oteiza (Wesleyan University, CT, USA)    Section 3: AGENCY  5 Scenography Matters: Performing Romani Identities: Strategy and Critique - Jane Collins (University of the Arts, London, UK) and Ethel Brooks (Rutgers University, NJ, USA)  6 Scenographic Agency: A Showing-doing and a Responsibility for Showing-doing - Kathleen Irwin (University of Regina, Canada)  7 Thinking that Matters: Towards a Post-Anthropocentric Approach to Performance Design - Maaike Bleeker (Utrecht University, Netherlands)    Section 4: AUDIENCES  8 Audience Immersion, Mindfulness and the Experience of Scenography - David Shearing (University of Leeds, UK)  9 Cognitive Approaches to Performance Design, or How the Dead Materialize and Other Spectacular Design Solutions - Stephen Di Benedetto (University of Miami, FL, USA)      Section 5: MATERIALITY  10 The Matter of Water: Bodily Experience of Scenography in Contemporary Spectacle - Nebojša Tabacki (University of the Arts, Berlin, Germany)   11 Ecologies of Autism: Vibrant Space in \u003ci\u003eImagining Autism \u003c\/i\u003e- Melissa Trimingham (University of Kent, UK)  Bibliography  Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48739588178263,"sku":"9781474244398","price":26.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781474244398.jpg?v=1720052674","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/scenography-expanded-9781474244398","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}