UNSW Handbook Course - Aspects of Theatre and Performance History

Aspects of Theatre and Performance History - MEFT3300


	Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
	School: School of Media, Film and Theatre
	Campus: Kensington Campus
	Career: Undergraduate
	Units of Credit: 6
	EFTSL: 0.125 (more info)
	Contact Hours per Week: 3
	Enrolment Requirements:
	Prerequisite: 72 units of credit; Excluded: THFI3900
	Session Offered: See Class Timetable
	Fee Band: 1 (more info)

Description

Introduces students to ways of investigating and interpreting the theatrical and performance past. Analyses performance evidence and representations as well as history texts and historiographical theories. Topics include: documentary evidence and iconography, periodisation, historiography and historicisation, biography and autobiography, social history and the performing body, and performance history and methodology from fields such as gender and postcolonial studies.

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