Critical Media Histories: Performance and Repertoires

Tracy C. Davis (Series Editor), Peter W. Marx (Series Editor)

Critical Media History broadens the history of media to include live events, revealing the interdependency and circulation of repertoires, techniques, and aesthetic practices. Concise monographs of 40,000 words analyze theatre and performance among media that circulate transculturally and transregionally, developing and mutating over time and space in ways central to cultural history.

The series recognizes a new paradigm of cultural history that emphasizes the centrality of performance in expression and circulation. Departing from a general understanding of the interconnectedness of arts and media, it focuses on how specific sensations and spectacles form fields of 'commensurability' that allow for transcultural encounters, exchange, and hybridization.

Advisory Board
Pascale Aebischer (Exeter University, UK)
Leo Cabranes-Grant (University of California at Santa Barbara (USA)
Pavel Drabek (Czech Culture Institute and University of Hradec Králové, Czech Republic)
Chris Hay (Flinders University, Australia)
Indu Jain (Delhi University, India)
Siyuan Liu (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Rashna Nicholson (Warwick University, UK)
Carol Symes (University of Illinois, USA) William N. West (Northwestern University, USA)