{"product_id":"performing-television-contemporary-drama-and-the-media-culture-paperback","title":"Performing Television: Contemporary Drama and the Media Culture - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eElizabeth Klaver\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIs it possible today to understand current genres such as drama and theater without considering the influence of television? Elizabeth Klaver argues that television's dominance of the entertainment industry demands a continual negotiation of subject position from all other cultural forms and institutions. By examining plays that incorporate televisual discourse-from cameras and monitors to televisual style and structure-\u003ci\u003ePerforming Television\u003c\/i\u003e probes the turbulent relation contemporary drama has had to television and its negotiations for identity in a postmodern media culture.\u003cbr\u003e Klaver applies post-structuralist theories of subjectivity to drama while ranging through Beckett's plays, National Hockey League games, \"The Tonight Show,\" gay and lesbian drama, minority drama, avant-garde performance, and the topics of theatrical paranoia, the mediatized Imaginary, and the spectatorial gaze.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 145\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.77 x 9.16 x 6.08 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 01, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42129846108295,"sku":"9780879728267","price":18.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/dce084bd22d074856199fae2b8e77c28.webp?v=1732606363","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/performing-television-contemporary-drama-and-the-media-culture-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}