Scrapbooks, Snapshots and Memorabilia Hidden Archives of Performance

Scrapbooks, Snapshots and Memorabilia: Hidden Archives of Performance asks the questions: What constitutes an archive? What is worthy of being archived? And who decides? Performances are ephemeral, so archival questions of selection and appraisal determine which performances will be remembered by hi...

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Main Author McGillivray, Glen (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bern Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften 2011
Edition1st, New ed.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9783035102512
Physical Description1 online zdroj (283 stran)

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Table of Contents:
  • Contents: Glen McGillivray: Forward: A brief note on AusStage - Glen McGillivray: The performance archive: Detritus or historical record? - Maryrose Casey: Tales still to be told: Indigenous Australian theatre practice and the archive - Tom Burvill/Mark Seton: The 'not-yet archive' of Sidetrack Performance Group - Gillian Arrighi/David Watt: (Re)Constructing the archive: A regional perspective on performance histories - John Bennett: More is less: Public profile and academic representation in contemporary British theatre - Catherine Haill: Accidents of survival: Finding a place in the V&A's theatre and performance archives - Amanda Card: Feeling for dancing hidden in the archives of the dead - Matthew Reason/Jules Dorey Richmond/Victoria Gray/Nathan Walker: Performance, documentation and the archive within the institution - Glen McGillivray: Still. Not seen: Photography and the archive under the bed - Kim Durban: Buried treasure: The lidded box and its function - Lisa Warrington: Performance as palimpsest: Leaving a trace memory in site-specific performance - Eileen Curley: Recording forbidden careers: Nineteenth-century amateur theatricals.