Spaces of Puppets in Popular Culture
Grotesque Geographies of the Borderscape
Seiten
2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-10344-0 (ISBN)
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-10344-0 (ISBN)
This first book-length exploration of geographical engagement with puppets examines constructions of puppets in contemporary popular British culture and considers the various ways in which puppets and humans (not just puppeteers) are unified in diverse cultural media.
Organised around themes of metaphorical, performative and transformational puppets, the work draws out how puppets are used in diverse cultural media (fiction, music, television, film and theatre), how they are constructed through those uses, and to what effect. Both puppets as generalised forms (bodily, relational or ideational) and specific puppet characters (Mr Punch, Pinocchio) are explored. Building upon existing associations between puppets and the grotesque, the volume extends understandings of the puppet by elaborating borderscaping strategies through which puppets are constructed and an alternative perspective on the uncanniness of puppets. Geographically, it unearths distinct puppet spatialities, identifies the socially critical potential of puppets, rescales geo/bio-politics at the interpersonal level, and highlights the potential of puppets within posthuman debates about the status of the human.
This work will be of interest to anyone fascinated by puppets, as well as those in fields such as geography, anthropology, cultural and media studies, and those interested in the grotesque, posthumanism and/or non-representational scholarship.
Organised around themes of metaphorical, performative and transformational puppets, the work draws out how puppets are used in diverse cultural media (fiction, music, television, film and theatre), how they are constructed through those uses, and to what effect. Both puppets as generalised forms (bodily, relational or ideational) and specific puppet characters (Mr Punch, Pinocchio) are explored. Building upon existing associations between puppets and the grotesque, the volume extends understandings of the puppet by elaborating borderscaping strategies through which puppets are constructed and an alternative perspective on the uncanniness of puppets. Geographically, it unearths distinct puppet spatialities, identifies the socially critical potential of puppets, rescales geo/bio-politics at the interpersonal level, and highlights the potential of puppets within posthuman debates about the status of the human.
This work will be of interest to anyone fascinated by puppets, as well as those in fields such as geography, anthropology, cultural and media studies, and those interested in the grotesque, posthumanism and/or non-representational scholarship.
Janet Banfield is a college lecturer in Geography at University of Oxford.
Introduction Part One: Metaphorical Puppets Introduction to Part One Chapter One: Puppets in Passing Chapter Two: Narrative Puppets Conclusion to Part One Part Two: Performative Puppets Introduction to Part Two Chapter Three: Puppets in Text and Film Chapter Four: Musical Puppets Chapter Five: Theatrical Puppets Conclusion to Part Two Part Three: Transformational Puppets Introduction to Part Three Chapter Six: Puppets Becoming Human Chapter Seven: Humans Becoming Puppet Conclusion to Part Three Conclusion
| Erscheinungsdatum | 03.05.2022 |
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| Reihe/Serie | Routledge Research in Culture, Space and Identity |
| Zusatzinfo | 9 Tables, black and white; 15 Line drawings, black and white; 15 Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 453 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-032-10344-2 / 1032103442 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-032-10344-0 / 9781032103440 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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