EAN: 9783825395230

IN THE BEGINNING WERE PUPPETS TOWARDS A POETICS...

The study privileges the puppet as a new and revealing point of access to contemporary critical
debates regarding performance  genre  affect  aesthetics  cultural production  political
activism and the nonhuman studies. The contributors address a striking range of performance
histories  aesthetic movements and theoretical positions  from the Arabic influence on Iberian
shadow puppetry to the position of the puppet in post-Revolutionary Iran and the American
anti-war movement  from the puppet's central role in the development of European theatre to
avant-garde and modernist anti-theatre  from the puppet's place in the histories of visual art
and experimental film to critiques of mass media.   By paying careful attention to the specific
roles and varieties of puppets in these diverse historical  political and cultural contexts 
the collection provides new insights into the practices  aesthetics and ethics of puppet
theatre  which serve  in turn  to interrogate anew the relationships between the human and the
nonhuman  the material and the immaterial  the uncanny and the sublime.

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