Theatre & the visual /
Theatre and the visual
Dominic Johnson.
- Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
- xiv, 82 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 75--79) and index.
This volume argues that theatre studies' preoccupation with problems arising from textual analysis has compromised a fuller, political consideration of the visual. It examines the spectator's role in the theatre, exploring pleasure, difficulty and spectacle, to consider the implications for visual experience in the theatre.