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Author: Michael Mark Chemers ,
Mike Sell ,
Marianne Weems
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Imprint: Southern Illinois University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 1.70cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.064kg
ISBN: 9780809338313
ISBN 10: 0809338319
Pages: 290
Publication Date: 31 January 2023
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Refreshingly joyful in their embrace of the pleasures of gaming, without losing sight of the primary role of the audience and social identity, Michael Mark Chemers and Mike Sell celebrate the transferable skills of dramaturgy as well as its vital role in building empathy among spectators and consumers of digital media. --Jane Barnette, author of Adapturgy: The Dramaturg's Art and Theatrical Adaptation Systemic Dramaturgy unpacks and explores the unique ways contemporary dramaturgy exists all around us. Everyone from theatre historians to video game streamers will cherish this essential guide to speaking about dramaturgy across the theatrical and virtual worlds where we all play. --Peter Kuling, associate editor, International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media Chemers and Sell's excellent and important new book--Systemic Dramaturgy: A Handbook for the Digital Age--speaks to anyone interested in the relationship between performance and technology. The authors argue--convincingly--that dramaturgy's attention to the art of close reading, open-ended thinking, and artful questioning is absolutely essential to the future of theatre, new media, gaming, and digital performance. In turn, they issue two bold challenges to the field: first, for dramaturgs to readily bring their expertise in analytical thinking to ever-widening constellations (systems) of thought; second, and most importantly, for dramaturgs to apply their knowledge of history and the humanities across cultures to the transformation of fixed, oppositional binaries-- machine/soul, head/heart, digital/authentic, technology/human embodiment--into dynamic, compassionate engines of play. --Geoff Proehl, author of Toward a Dramaturgical Sensibility: Landscape and Journey with DD Kugler, Mark Lamos, and Michael Lupu
Author Information
Michael Mark Chemers, professor of dramatic literature at the University of California Santa Cruz, is the author of Ghost Light: An Introductory Handbook for Dramaturgy and Staging Stigma: A Critical Examination of the American Freak Show. He was the founding director of the bachelor of fine arts in dramaturgy at Carnegie Mellon University. Mike Sell, professor of English at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and member of the Graduate Program in Literature and Criticism, is author of The Avant-Garde: Race Religion War and editor of Playwriting in the 1960s: Decades of American Drama, among other publications. He is the founder of the Digital Storygame Project, which supports Pennsylvania public-school teachers in the integration of digital game design and creative writing.
