Overview
- Provides an exciting, practice-led insight into a unique new form of theater
- Explores the intersection of intertextuality, theater and technology in an engaging and dynamic style
- Offers a comprehensive insight into the creative process of theater from the author's unique perspective as writer and performer
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Performance and Technology (PSPT)
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“Infectious theoretical investigation drives this book across trans-historical and trans-contextual ideas vital to theatre. Its innovative modes of understanding intermediality, changing affective states, and ‘becomings’ posit ways for seeing ideasanew, for rethinking historical questions, and looking forward. Reynolds creates a prismatic focus around ideas so that we see them again and again, but through different lenses. In effect, theatre studies finds itself in new places.” (Jennifer Parker-Starbuck, Head of Department and Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Roehampton, UK)
“So much more than a theory book or a period book, Intermedial Theater: Performance Philosophy, Transversal Poetics, and the Future of Affect is a statement of vision, practice, and performance. Dramatist and theorist Bryan Reynolds and crew invite readers into the electric, kinetic, worlds generated by transversal theater and theory. The results are ‘fractalicious.’ You may never want to leave.” (Julian Yates, Professor of English and Material Culture Studies, University of Delaware, USA)
“In this provocative book on contemporary European postdramatic theater, Bryan Reynolds’ unique writing voice givesthe reader an exciting, performative experience of the productions from critical perspectives that reflect current rhythms of filmic and digital media. Reynolds writes the way people’s brains work in this electronic age, and performs his intellectual persona on the page as it reads the stage. I love the book's performative style. It is the intellectual equivalent of a stage performance.” (Peter Lichtenfels, Professor of Theatre & Dance, University of California, Davis, USA)
“In this important and impressive book the concept of transversality is used to describe and to understand the formation of subjectivity in everyday and artistic practices. For this, it is developed in the context of theories of the subject and elaborated by analyzing literary texts. The book convincingly shows how transversality can be performed and realized in theatre work. It is a must-read for everybody who is interested in the condition of subjectivity today.” (Rainer Winter, Chair Professor of Media and Cultural Theory, Klagenfurt University, Austria)
“Equal parts essay, performance, and radical philosophy, Reynolds’s latest book extends his inimitable experiment in transversal poetics to the intersecting streams of media, art, and theater, with constant reference to Hamlet. A stunningly inventive, perceptive, and generous act of criticism that will shake loose your habits of perception, challenging you to re-discover that the true thrill of thinking is rooted in the pleasure of being alive.” (Henry S. Turner, Professor of English, Rutgers University, USA)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Bryan Reynolds is Claire Trevor Professor of Drama at the University of California, Irvine, USA. He is also the Artistic Director of the Amsterdam-based Transversal Theater Company, a director of theater, a performer, and a playwright, whose plays have been produced in the United States, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Intermedial Theater
Book Subtitle: Performance Philosophy, Transversal Poetics, and the Future of Affect
Authors: Bryan Reynolds
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Performance and Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50838-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-50837-9Published: 19 April 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-70148-3Published: 12 May 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-50838-6Published: 06 April 2017
Series ISSN: 2947-5848
Series E-ISSN: 2947-5856
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 314
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 26 illustrations in colour
Topics: Contemporary Theatre, Global/International Theatre and Performance, Aesthetics, Poetry and Poetics