A cinema without cameras, without actors, without screen frames and without narratives almost seems like an antithetical impossibility of what is usually expected from a cinematic spectacle. This book defines an emergent field of post-cinematic theatre and performance, challenging our assumptions and expectations about theatre and film.

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Piotr Woycicki is a Lecturer in Theatre and Performance Studies at Aberystwyth University, UK. His previous publications include articles in the Journal of Beckett Studies and the Journal of Performance Research.

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List of Figures Series Editors' Preface Acknowledgements 1. The Post-Cinematic Landscape 2. Décalage and Mediaphors in Robert Lepage's Elsinore and The Andersen Project 3. Acinematic Montage in Roadmetal Sweetbread and Mare's Nest 4. Guilty pleasures and intermedial archaeologies in Wooster Group's House/Lights and Hamlet 5. The Ethics of Perception in Wunschkonzert 6. Disorienting Landscapes in Hotel Methuselah 7. Pedipulating 'footage' in Duncan Speakman's As if it were the last time 8. Landscapes and Aporias in Lars Von Trier's Dogville 9. Conclusion Bibliography Index