Hassall, LindaUnknown
Springer Singapore (Singapore , 2021) (eng) English9789811661594Unknown1st ed.CLIMATIC CHANGES IN LITERATURE; UnknownThrough a contemporary Gothic lens, the book explores theatre theories, processes and practices that explore; the impacts of continuing drought and natural disaster, the conflicts concerning resource extraction and mining and current political debates focussed on climate change denial. While these issues can be argued from various political and economic platforms, theatrical investigations as discussed here suggest that scholars and theatre makers are becoming empowered to dramaturgically explore the ecological challenges we face now and may face in the future. In doing so the book proposes that theatre can engage in not only climate change analysis and discussion but can develop climate literacies in a broader socio-cultural context.
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1 online resource (xix, 134 p.)UnknownUnknown
Summary / review / table of contents
1 Theatres of Dust
2 Mutating the Australian Gothic into the Climate Gothic
3 The Monstrous Gothic
4 Gothic Atmosphere and Extinction
5 The Mythic Space
6 Romantic Legacies: Ecocriticism in Australian Performance
7 Greening Theatre Landscapes
Sustainable Australian Theatre Production
8 Conclusion Theatres of Hope