|aElectronic reproduction.|bBasingstoke, England :|cPalgrave Macmillan,|d2010.|nMode of access:World Wide Web.|nSystem requirements: Web browser.|nTitle from title screen (viewed on Sep. 27, 2010).|nAccess may be restricted to users at subscribing institutions.
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|aFrom oral culture, through the advent of literacy, to the introduction of printing, to the development of electronic media, communication structures have radically altered culture in profound ways. As the firstbook to take a critical realist approach to culture, Theatre, Communication, Critical Realism examines theatre and its history through the interaction of society's structures, agents,and discourses. Tobin Nellhaus shows that communication structure - a culture's use and developmentof speech, handwriting, printing, and electronics - explains much about why, when, and how theatre has transformed.
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|aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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|aIntroduction -- Philosophy, history, theater -- Orality, literacy, and early theater -- Embodiment, agency, and performance strategies -- Social ontology, (meta)theatricality, and the history of communication -- Conclusion : new media, old problems.