A new dramaturgy for digital technology in narrative theater

Rouse, Rebecca

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A new dramaturgy for digital technology in narrative theater

dc.contributor.advisor	Bolter, Jay David
dc.contributor.author	Rouse, Rebecca
dc.contributor.committeeMember	Foulger, Melissa
dc.contributor.committeeMember	Nitsche, Michael
dc.contributor.committeeMember	Aronson, Arnold
dc.contributor.committeeMember	Hollengreen, Laura H.
dc.contributor.department	Literature, Media, and Communication
dc.date.accessioned	2013-09-17T16:33:00Z
dc.date.available	2013-09-17T16:33:00Z
dc.date.created	2013-08
dc.date.issued	2013-05-20
dc.date.submitted	August 2013
dc.date.updated	2013-09-17T16:33:00Z
dc.description.abstract	Many contemporary theater practitioners and scholars agree that the investigation of the relationship between digital technologies and theater is an important yet relatively unexplored topic, both in theory and practice. A debate regarding the fundamental nature of performance and more specifically the quality of liveness in the face of media has been the dominant conversation on this topic. While the liveness debate is important, it is not the only angle from which to approach questions of specific types of technology and performance. This dissertation takes a different approach, while taking the liveness debate into account. This dissertation examines relevant historical and contemporary theory and practice in the area of digital technology in theater, and then describes a new method of practice and analysis in the form of a new dramaturgy. This new dramaturgy is then applied to examples of selected work and also used hands-on to create a two-part case study to try out its usefulness in practice. The first part of the case study is a production design created with the new dramaturgy in collaboration with undergraduate students within the context of a special topics course. The second part of the case study is a full-scale production by a professional director, incorporating elements of the production design created in the first part of the case study.
dc.description.degree	Ph.D.
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1853/48960
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	Georgia Institute of Technology
dc.subject	Digital media
dc.subject	Theatre
dc.subject.lcsh	Theater
dc.subject.lcsh	Computers in the theater
dc.subject.lcsh	Mass media and theater
dc.subject.lcsh	Drama Technique
dc.title	A new dramaturgy for digital technology in narrative theater
dc.type	Text
dc.type.genre	Dissertation
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local.contributor.advisor	Bolter, Jay David
local.contributor.corporatename	Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts
local.relation.ispartofseries	Doctor of Philosophy with a Major in Digital Media
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thesis.degree.level	Doctoral