Enter the Undead Author: Intellectual Property, the Ideology of Authorship, and Performance Practices since the 1960s - Couverture souple

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Gezik, Erdal

 
9781683931607: Enter the Undead Author: Intellectual Property, the Ideology of Authorship, and Performance Practices since the 1960s
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ISBN 10 : 1683931602 ISBN 13 : 9781683931607
Editeur : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2021

Synopsis

Many narratives of theater history suggest that the 1960s marked the start of a turning away from traditional, script-based, playwright-centric production practices. Literary studies in this period began exploring the concept of the "death of the author" along similar lines. But the author refused to die quietly, and authorship reasserts itself in even revolutionary and avant-garde theaters throughout the latter half of the twentieth century. The model of authorship-valorizing individuality, ownership, and originality-serves to maintain traditional modes of production that reproduce and uphold dominant ideologies even when the products created by those modes of production claim to buck tradition or run counter to cultural currents. This ideology of authorship plays a part in playwrights shutting down productions of their own plays, in the privileging of individual authorship over joint authorship even in collaborative genres, and in the insistence on originality even in performance traditions rooted in a shared repertoire. This tension between the theoretical death of the author and the growth of actual authors' abilities to control access to and even in some cases interpretations of their work exposes the deftness with which dominant ideologies and their attendant modes of production can repurpose the aesthetics of even countercultural or revolutionary movements in theater.

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À propos de l'auteur

George Pate is assistant professor of theater and drama in the Department of English, Theater, and Liberal Studies at the University of South Carolina at Beaufort.

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Éditeur
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Date d'édition
2021
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1683931602
ISBN 13 
9781683931607
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
171
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9781683931584: Enter the Undead Author: Intellectual Property, the Ideology of Authorship, and Performance Practices since the 1960s

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ISBN 10 :  1683931580 ISBN 13 :  9781683931584
Editeur : Fairleigh Dickinson University P..., 2019
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