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Performing
Television
Contemporary Drama and
the Media Culture
Elizabeth Klaver
Popular Press
Is it possible today to understand
current genres such as drama and theater without considering
the influence of television? Elizabeth Klaver argues that television's
dominance of the entertainment industry demands a continual negotiation
of subject position from all other cultural forms and institutions.
By examining plays that incorporate televisual discourse—from
cameras and monitors to televisual style and structure—Performing
Television probes the turbulent relation contemporary drama
has had to television and its negotiations for identity in a
postmodern media culture.
Klaver applies post-structuralist theories of subjectivity to
drama while ranging through Beckett's plays, National Hockey
League games, "The Tonight Show," gay and lesbian drama,
minority drama, avant-garde performance, and the topics of theatrical
paranoia, the mediatized Imaginary, and the spectatorial gaze.
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2000
LC: 00-050365 PN
156 pp. 6 x 9
ISBN-10: 0-87972-825-6
ISBN-13: 978-0-87972-825-0
Cloth $34.95 t
ISBN-10: 0-87972-826-4
ISBN-13: 978-0-87972-826-7
Paper $15.95 t
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