Translocal Performance in Asian Theatre and Film

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by Iris H. Tuan

Type

Essays

Subject

Theory

Keywords

globalization, national cultures

Publishing date

2018

Publisher

Palgrave MacMillan

Collection

Palgrave Pivot

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 190 pages
6 x 8 inches (15 x 20.5 cm)

ISBN

978-9811086083

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Book Presentation:
This pivot offers an innovative, trans-local perspective on performance studies in the era of digital technology, considering a range of content from theater to opera, film, dance, and musical theatre. It examines theatre performing arts and film in terms of aesthetics, gender studies, and identity politics, and showcases the value of human accomplishments in theatre and film and their representative artistic works. It also addresses key issues within performance studies, such as gender, class, race, ethnicity, identity, and how minorities portray their ethnicity stories. This book links the trans-national and the trans-local and considers how emerging mobile geographies and new methodologies of interpreting performance in theatre and film reflect the transformations of our understanding of geopolitical time and space.

About the Author:
Iris H. Tuan is Professor at National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. She received her Ph.D. in Theater from UCLA and has been a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University. Tuan’s selected publications include papers published by the Asian Theatre Journal, the Intercultural Theatre: Adaptation and Representation and Western Canon in Taiwan Theatre. Tuan is the recipient of an NCTU Outstanding Research Award.

Press Reviews:
"Due to the book’s preponderance of case studies and de-emphasis on foundational theories and methodologies, this text feels best suited for graduate students or scholars in related fields looking for specific case studies. Such a rich array of case studies on translocal performance in Taiwan is likely most useful for scholars in performance studies, East Asian studies, and theatre and cinema." (Annie Katsura Rollins, Asian Theatre Journal, Vol. 36 (2), 2019)

See the publisher website: Palgrave MacMillan