Performing Television

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Is it possible today to understand current genres such as drama and theater without considering the influence of television? Elizabeth Klaver argues that television's dominance of the entertainment industry demands a continual negotiation of subject position from all other cultural forms and institutions. By examining plays that incorporate televisual discourse--from cameras and monitors to televisual style and structure--"Performing Television" probes the turbulent relation contemporary drama has had to television and its negotiations for identity in a postmodern media culture.

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Is it possible to understand genres such as drama and theatre without considering the influence of television? This work argues that television's dominance of the entertainment industry demands a continual negotiation of subject position from all other cultural forms and institutions.