Fixing the TV: Televisual Geography in the Wooster Group’s Brace Up!

Autor: Phaedra Bell
Rok vydání: 2005
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Zdroj: Modern Drama. 48:565-584
ISSN: 1712-5286
0026-7694
DOI: 10.3138/md.48.3.565
Popis: According to Fry’s theory, performance was already functioning inside the larger environment of t he televisual when t he Wooster Group first staged Brace Up! – their version of Chekhov’s Three Sisters – in 1991. Indeed, the Wooster Group had already taken some aspects of the televisual into account in previous works. Against claims that these works were apolitical, Philip Auslander argues, in his landmark defense of their work, that their previous performances, particularly L.S.D., made political contributions by miming what he calls “the flow of mediatized culture”. Televisual flow “can be disorienting,” Auslander explains in his reading of Raymond Williams’ concept.
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