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Author Boenisch, Peter M., author.

Title Directing scenes and senses : the thinking of Regie / Peter M. Boenisch
Published Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations
Series Theatre : theory, practice, performance
Theatre (Manchester, England)
Contents Introduction, the dissensus of Regie : rethinking 'directors' theatre' -- Part I, Mise en scene to Mise en sens : towards an aesthetic politics of Regie. Regie beyond representation : directing the 'sensible' ; The restless spirit of Regie : Hegel, theatrality and the magic of speculative thinking ; Theatre as dialectic institution : Friedrich Schiller and the liberty of play ; The essence of the text and its actualisation : Leopold Jessner, the playwright's radical servant -- Part II, The theatral appearing of ideas : the thinking of contemporary Regie. The tremor of speculative negation : on Regie, truth and ex-position ; Seeing what is coming : on Regie, playing and appearing ; The intermedial parallax : on Regie, media and spectating ; Theatre in the age of semiocapitalism : on Regie, realism and political critique -- Conclusion : the future of Regie?
Summary Explores the thinking of Regie, the Continental European tradition of staging playtexts, as a meeting between Continental theater and philosophy. Develops new perspectives on the cultural history of Regie through historical and contemporary manifestations in German, Dutch, and Flemish theater
Analysis Friedrich Schiller
Georg Hegel
Leopold Jessner
Slavoj Žižek
aesthetic politics
contemporary Regie
directors' theatre
intermedial parallax
play-performance
semiocapitalism
speculative thinking
theatral appearing
truthfulness
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 29, 2015)
Subject Theater -- Production and direction -- Europe -- History
PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General.
Theater -- Production and direction
Europe
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
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