Looking Through Theatre

Kati Röttger

ISBN 10: 3837680061 / ISBN 13: 9783837680065

Published by Transcript Verlag, DE, 2026

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How do the visible and the invisible interact in aesthetic experience? Kati Röttger connects phenomenology and intermediality to engage with orders of looking in theatrical events, and thus offers a multifaceted methodological approach to performance analysis. The study balances theory and methodology in combination with extensive case studies encompassing different histories, cultures and media from dance, to postdramatic theatre, film and theatre texts. The reader gains a deep insight into the relevance of theatrical performances as poison and cure in (hyper)industrial societies, because of theatre's capability to theorize critically the not least violent interrelationship of seeing and being seen.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Looking Through Theatre
• Publisher: Transcript Verlag, DE
• Publication Date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3837680061
• ISBN 13: 9783837680065
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

How do the visible and the invisible interact in aesthetic experience? Kati Röttger connects phenomenology and intermediality to engage with orders of looking in theatrical events, and thus offers a multifaceted methodological approach to performance analysis. The study balances theory and methodology in combination with extensive case studies encompassing different histories, cultures and media from dance, to postdramatic theatre, film and theatre texts. The reader gains a deep insight into the relevance of theatrical performances as poison and cure in (hyper)industrial societies, because of theatre's capability to theorize critically the not least violent interrelationship of seeing and being seen.

About the Author

Kati Röttger (Prof. Dr. phil.) lehrt Theaterwissenschaft an der Universität von Amsterdam. Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Theater als Medium des Sehens, Politik des Bildes, postkoloniales Theater und Theatergeschichte.