Performing Television: Contemporary Drama and the Media Culture

by Elizabeth Klaver

Is 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-Performing Television...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0879728264
• ISBN13: 9780879728267
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 145 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"