Paperback. How do the visible and the invisible interact in aesthetic experience? Kati Roettger 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. A pivotal methodological approach to performance analysis connecting phenomenology and intermediality to engage with orders of looking. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

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Title: Looking Through Theatre (Paperback)
Publisher: Transcript Verlag
Publication Date: 2026
Language: English
ISBN 10: 3837680061
ISBN 13: 9783837680065
Binding: Paperback
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How do the visible and the invisible interact in aesthetic experience? Kati R�ttger 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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Kati R�ttger (Prof. Dr. phil.) lehrt Theaterwissenschaft an der Universit�t von Amsterdam. Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Theater als Medium des Sehens, Politik des Bildes, postkoloniales Theater und Theatergeschichte.

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