Performing Mountains

Pitches, Jonathan

Launching the landmark Performing Landscapes series, Performing Mountains brings together for the first time Mountain Studies and Performance Studies in order to examine an international selection of dramatic responses to mountain landscapes. Moving between different registers of writing, the book offers a critical assessment of how the cultural turn in landscape studies interacts with the practices of environmental theatre and performance. Conceived in three main parts, it begins by unpicking the layers of disciplinary complexity in both fields, before surveying the rich history and practice of rituals, playtexts and site specific works inspired by mountains. The last section moves to a unique analysis of mountains themselves using key concepts from performance: training, scenography, acting and spectatorship. Threaded throughout is a very personal tale of mountain research, offering a handrail or alternative guide through the book.    

Details

Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2020-04-03

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781137556004

DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-55601-1

Dimensions: 210.0cm x148.0cm

Pages: 305.0