Ebook: Theatricality as Medium

This readable, thought-provoking, and multidisciplinary study explores theatrical writings that question the Aristotelian aesthetical-generic conception and seek instead to work with the medium of theatricality itself.;Introduction: theatricality as medium -- Theatrocracy; or surviving the break -- Technics, theatricality, installation -- Scene and screen: electronic media and theatricality / -- Antigone's Nomos -- The place of death: Oedipus at Colonus -- Storming the work: allegory and theatricality in Benjamin's Origin of the German Mourning Play -- "Ibi et ubique": the incontinent plot (Hamlet) -- Kierkegaard's Posse -- After the end: Adorno -- Psychoanalysis and theatricality -- "The virtual reality of Theater": Antonin Artaud -- Double take: acting and writing in Genet's "The strange word Urb" -- "Being ... and eXistenZ": some preliminary considerations on theatricality in film -- "War," "Terrorism," and "spectacle": on towers and caves -- Stages and plots: theatricality after September 11, 2001.