Required reading:
Auslander, Philip. 1999.
Liveness:
Performance in a Mediatized Culture. London & New York: Routledge.
Brewster, Ben, & Lea
Jacobs. 1997. Theatre to Cinema: Stage Pictorialism & Early Film.
Oxford University Press.
Laurel, Brenda. 1991. Computers
as Theatre. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley Publishing
You need this book for your mid-term exam:
Levinson, Paul. 1997. The
Soft Edge: A natural history and future of the information revolution.
New York: Routledge.
There is also a course
packet with readings which are not in the books you need to own for this
class.
These selections are
marked thus: (P)
The course packet is
available from Unique Copiers on Greene Street between Mercer and 8th St.
READING SCHEDULE:
Theatrical Popular Entertainments
by September 18 read:
Brooks McNamara. Popular
American Entertainments: Introduction (P)
Andrea Dennett. “The Dime
Museum Freak Show Reconfigured as Talk Show” (P)
Brewster & Jacobs. Theatre to Cinema: Stage Pictorialism & Early Film (B)
Electric Popular
Entertainments
by October 2 read:
Robert Clyde Allen. Vaudeville
and Film - Chapter 1 (P)
Philip Auslander. Liveness
-
1 - 111 (B)
Electronic Popular Entertainments
by October 23 read:
Bertold Brecht. “The
Radio as an Apparatus of Communication”
Douglas Rushkoff. “The MTV
Revolution” (from Media Virus) (P)
Mid-term Exam
by November 13 read:
Paul Levinson. The Soft
Edge (B)
Digital Popular Entertainments
by November 27 read:
Timothy Leary. Chaos
and Cyberculture
Howard Rheingold. “The Experience
Theatre and the Art of Binocular Illusion” (from Virtual Reality)
(P)
Howard Rheingold. “The Origins
of Drama and the Future of Fun” (from Virtual Reality) (P)
Applying a Theatrical
Model to Popular Entertainments
by December 11 read:
Richard Schechner. "Drama,
Script, Theatre, Performance" (P)
Patrice Pavis. "Theatre and the Media"(P)
Brenda Laurel. Computers
as Theatre (B)
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