Course Name: Modern Theatre and Modern Technology
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SLN: 13553
Meeting Time: M 2:30-5:20pm
Term: Winter 2021
One of the most topical issues in contemporary theatre scholarship is the triangular relationship among theatre, other representational media, and technology. Inspired by media critics such as McLuhan and Baudrillard, the majority of theatre and performance scholars who study this question have placed their discussions in the late twentieth- and early twenty-first centuries, focusing on the emergence of digital media and its effects on live performance. This course, by contrast, attempts to study the topic historically, starting in the early modern period. Our major task will be articulating the (sometimes tacit) theories of representation that emerged as new technologies changed the perceptions and daily practices of people in the west.