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Performing Mountains

Palgrave Macmillan

Authors:

  1. Jonathan Pitches

    1. School of Performance and Cultural Industries, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

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  • Brings together Mountain Studies and Performance Studies for the first time

  • Examines an international selection of dramatic responses to mountain landscapes

  • Moves between different registers of writing that engage with both the personal and the academic

Part of the book series: Performing Landscapes (PELA)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  3. Part 1: Mountain Studies Meets Performance

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
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  4. Part 2: Mountains in Ritual, Drama and Site-Related Performance

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 33-34
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    3. Part 2.1 Mountain Rituals

      • Jonathan Pitches
      Pages 41-74

    5. Part 2.2 Mountain Drama

      • Jonathan Pitches
      Pages 81-128

    7. Part 2.3 Mountain Site-Related Performance

      • Jonathan Pitches
      Pages 135-177

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 281-306
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About this book

Launching the landmark Performing Landscapes series, Performing Mountains brings together for the first time Mountain Studies and Performance Studies in order to examine an international selection of dramatic responses to mountain landscapes. Moving between different registers of writing, the book offers a critical assessment of how the cultural turn in landscape studies interacts with the practices of environmental theatre and performance. Conceived in three main parts, it begins by unpicking the layers of disciplinary complexity in both fields, before surveying the rich history and practice of rituals, playtexts and site specific works inspired by mountains. The last section moves to a unique analysis of mountains themselves using key concepts from performance: training, scenography, acting and spectatorship. Threaded throughout is a very personal tale of mountain research, offering a handrail or alternative guide through the book.    
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Keywords

  • mountains
  • performance
  • theatre
  • landscapes
  • Anthropocene
  • hiking
  • climbing
  • dramaturgy
  • Mont Blanc
  • the Eiger
  • the Matterhorn
  • environment
  • ecology
  • landscape/regional and urban planning
  • Environmental Geography
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Reviews

“There is much in this book, and indeed the Performing Landscapes series, that is crying out for further ecocritical discussion.” (Terry Gifford, Green Letters, February 21, 2021)

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Authors and Affiliations

  • School of Performance and Cultural Industries, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

    Jonathan Pitches

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About the author

Jonathan Pitches is Professor of Theatre and Performance at the University of Leeds, UK, and specialises in environmental performance, performer training and blended learning. He is a keen hill walker and completed the Wainwright challenge of climbing 214 summits in the Lake District along with his family in 2018.
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