Overview

Focused on the contemporary Anglophone adoption from the 1960s onwards, Beyond Scenography explores the porous state of contemporary theatre-making to argue a critical distinction between scenography (as a crafting of place orientation) and scenographics (that which orientate acts of worlding, of staging). With sections on installation art and gardening as well as marketing and placemaking, this book is an argument for what scenography does: how assemblages of scenographic traits orientate, situate, and shape staged events. Established stage orthodoxies are revisited - including the symbiosis of stage and scene and the aesthetic ideology of 'the scenic' - to propose how scenographics are formative to all staged events. Consequently, one of the conclusions of this book is that there is no theatre practice without scenography, no stages without scenographics. Beyond Scenography offers a manifesto for a renewed theory of scenographic practice for the student and professional theatrical designer.

Full Product Details

Author:   Rachel Hann
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.480kg
ISBN:  

9781138785069

ISBN 10:   1138785067
Pages:   156
Publication Date:   01 August 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction Scenography as theatre-making Theatre after cinema Scenography after performance Chapter outline Chapter 1: Place Orientation, Scenic Politics and Scenographics Scenes and Scenic Politics Scenographics Othering Tactics Chapter 2: Scenography and the Anglophone theatres The first adoption of scenography Continental differences pre-1960 The second adoption of scenography Sound and costume as scenography Chapter 3: Scenography beyond scenographers Mise en scène and scenography Whose scenography? Beyond dramaturgy and choreography Expanded scene design? Chapter 4: Scenography Happens The time of scenography Scenography is not set Gecko’s MISSING set Chapter 5: Scenographic Worlding Stage Geographies Stage Ideologies Scenography beyond stages? Stage-Scenes beyond vision Chapter 6: Scenographic Cultures Installation Art and Scenographic Scale Interior Design and Scenographic Behaviours Marketing and Scenographic Seduction Gardening and Scenographic Curation Protest and Scenographic Activism Chapter 7: Scenographic Architecture Fast Architecture Trompe l'oeil and Scenographic Propaganda Potemkin Villages and Scenographic Placemaking Conclusion

Reviews

[Beyond Scenography] remains a thought-provoking and much-needed theoretical contribution to the sprawling domain of scenography studies and related performance disciplines. The book's hugely relevant and historically underpinned theoretical take on such diverse topics as installation art, interior design, gardening and marketing renders it essential reading for a much broader academic audience. [...] I recommend Beyond Scenography as necessary reading for scholars, students and practitioners engaged in cross-disciplinary studies of art and performing arts history and practice, architecture, urban sociology and beyond. Astrid von Rosen, University of Gothenburg, Theatre and Performance Design, 7:3-4, 240-241, DOI: 10.1080/23322551.2021.2003155

Author Information

Dr. Rachel Hann is Lecturer in Scenography, University of Surrey, UK.

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

No review item found!

Add your own review!

Countries Available

All regions