Investigating the Theatrical Past - ARTS3126
Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
School: School of the Arts and Media
Course Outline: School of the Arts and Media
Campus: Kensington Campus
Career: Undergraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
Enrolment Requirements:
Prerequisite: 24 units of credit in Theatre and Performance Studies stream
Equivalent: MEFT3300
CSS Contribution Charge: 1 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
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Description
Subject Area: Theatre and Performance Studies
ARTS3126 introduces ways of investigating and interpreting the theatrical and performance past. It presents methods for analyzing performance evidence and representations as well as history texts and historiographical theories. Topics may include: documentary evidence and iconography, periodization, historiography and historicization, biography and autobiography, social history and the performing body, and performance history and methodology from fields such as cultural and gender studies.