This pivot offers an innovative, trans-local perspective on performance studies in the era of digital technology, considering a range of content from theater to opera, film, dance, and musical theatre. It examines theatre performing arts and film in terms of aesthetics, gender studies, and identity politics, and showcases the value of human accomplishments in theatre and film and their representative artistic works. It also addresses key issues within performance studies, such as gender, class, race, ethnicity, identity, and how minorities portray their ethnicity stories. This book links the trans-national and the trans-local and considers how emerging mobile geographies and new methodologies of interpreting performance in theatre and film reflect the transformations of our understanding of geopolitical time and space.

Offers an innovative, trans-local perspective on Asian performance studies in the era of digital technology Examines theatre performing arts and film in terms of aesthetics, gender studies, and identity politics Considers how new methodologies of interpreting performance reflect the transformations of our understanding of geopolitical time and space.

Autorentext
Iris H. Tuan is Professor at National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. She received her Ph.D. in Theater from UCLA and has been a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University. Tuan's selected publications include papers published by the Asian Theatre Journal, the Intercultural Theatre: Adaptation and Representation and Western Canon in Taiwan Theatre. Tuan is the recipient of an NCTU Outstanding Research Award.

Inhalt
Introduction.- Methodologies: From Postcolonial Feminism and Creolization toward Translocal.- Part One: Intercultural Theatre in Taiwan.- CLT's A Midsummer Night's Dream : Tradition, Modernity and Translocality.- Yukio Ninagawa's Hamlet in Taiwan : Intercultural Representation.- **Theatre Represents Literature: Love and Labor in Send Away ** **Under Escort.- ** Part Two: From Local to GlobalHakka, Dance, Chinese Musical, and Film.- Change of Hakka Opera: Ethnicity and Creation in Hakka Musical and Hakka TV Drama.- Hakka Culture and Image in Film and Performance.- Irresistible Seduction and Translocal Labor of Musical Theatre in Taiwan: From Translation to Multi- Arts.- Spectacle, Adaptation and Sexuality in Chinese Musicals.- The Abject, Murder and Sex **in the Golden Horse Awards Film The Great Buddha+.- ** Sex, Money, Calculating and Manipulative in Politics in **the Golden Horse Awards Film The Bold, The Corrupt, and The Beautiful.- ** Conclusion.