Making Meaning in Puppetry
Materials, Practice, Perception
Herausgeber: Posner, Dassia N.; Mello, Alissa; Orenstein, Claudia
Making Meaning in Puppetry
Materials, Practice, Perception
Herausgeber: Posner, Dassia N.; Mello, Alissa; Orenstein, Claudia
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From ice puppets to robots, from intricate marionettes to abstract forms, Making Meaning in Puppetry investigates the elusive and multifaceted how of how puppets make meaning in performance. It develops a vocabulary for understanding and articulating how the puppetâ s meaning-making systems work across its three distinct parts.
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From ice puppets to robots, from intricate marionettes to abstract forms, Making Meaning in Puppetry investigates the elusive and multifaceted how of how puppets make meaning in performance. It develops a vocabulary for understanding and articulating how the puppetâ s meaning-making systems work across its three distinct parts.
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- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Seitenzahl: 290
- Erscheinungstermin: 9. September 2025
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
- Gewicht: 468g
- ISBN-13: 9781032458120
- ISBN-10: 1032458127
- Artikelnr.: 73331788
- Herstellerkennzeichnung
- Libri GmbH
- Europaallee 1
- 36244 Bad Hersfeld
- gpsr@libri.de
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Seitenzahl: 290
- Erscheinungstermin: 9. September 2025
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
- Gewicht: 468g
- ISBN-13: 9781032458120
- ISBN-10: 1032458127
- Artikelnr.: 73331788
- Herstellerkennzeichnung
- Libri GmbH
- Europaallee 1
- 36244 Bad Hersfeld
- gpsr@libri.de
Dassia N. Posner is a theatre historian, translator, dramaturg, and puppeteer. She is Associate Professor of Theatre at Northwestern University, USA. Her books include The Director's Prism: E.T.A. Hoffmann and the Russian Theatrical Avant-Garde, The Routledge Companion to Puppetry and Material Performance (coedited), and Three Loves for Three Oranges: Gozzi, Meyerhold, Prokofiev (co-edited). Claudia Orenstein, Professor of Theatre at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, USA, is co-editor of four books on puppetry from Routledge, author of Reading the Puppet Stage: Reflections on the Dramaturgy of Performing Objects, and Editor of the online journal Puppetry International Research. Alissa Mello is a writer, editor, theatre artist and a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellow at the University of Exeter, UK. Their interests include women and performance, gender, identity and practice. Their co-edited books include Sandglass Theater: The Time Before the Glass Turns Over and Women and Puppetry: Critical and Historical Investigations.
Foreword
John Bell
Introduction: Recentering the Puppet
Dassia N. Posner, Claudia Orenstein, and Alissa Mello
PART 1
Materials
1 Reading the Material of Performance
Dassia N. Posner
2 Notes on a Material Dramaturgy
Laura Purcell-Gates
3 A "Paper" Leviathan: Metaphor and Materiality in the Blair Thomas &
Company Moby Dick
Skye Strauss
4 Aesthetics of Precarity: The Vindicating Materiality of Silencio Blanco's
Puppetry
Carlos A. Ortiz
5 Chambre Noire: Relational Puppetry and Female Embodiment in the Puppetry
of Yngvild Aspeli and Plexus Polaire
Felice Amato
6 Materializing the Immaterial: Puppets and Masks of Indonesia, Thailand,
and Myanmar (Burma)
Kathy Foley
PART 2
Practice
7 The Radicality of the Potato People
Denise Rogers Valenzuela
8 The Puppet Body as Performance Archive
Jane Catherine Shaw
9 Lost in Object Translation: Reading Meaning in Traditional Japanese
Puppetry
Claudia Orenstein
10 Queer Thinking of Puppetry
Heather Jeanne Denyer
11 Puppets and Dead Kings in Brazilian Theatre: Heiner Muller, Ophelias,
and Recurrent Hamletian Machines
Mayumi Ilari
12 Puppetry and Technoculture
Lawrence Switzky
PART 3
Perception
13 The Relationality of Puppet Life
Dawn Tracey Brandes
14 In Your Sight and In Your Mind: The Puppeteer as Cognitive Guide in
Koryu- Nishikawa V and Tom Lee's
Shank's Mare
Ana Díaz Barriga
15 Puppets, Perception, and the Uncanny: Watching Performances Through a
Cognitive Lens
Pia Banzhaf
16 Puppetry as Phenomena
Kate Brehm
17 Thinking through the Hand: Understanding the Puppet through Practice,
Gesture, and Touch in the Work of Handspring Puppet Company
Emma Smith Minkley
Afterword
Will Bixby
John Bell
Introduction: Recentering the Puppet
Dassia N. Posner, Claudia Orenstein, and Alissa Mello
PART 1
Materials
1 Reading the Material of Performance
Dassia N. Posner
2 Notes on a Material Dramaturgy
Laura Purcell-Gates
3 A "Paper" Leviathan: Metaphor and Materiality in the Blair Thomas &
Company Moby Dick
Skye Strauss
4 Aesthetics of Precarity: The Vindicating Materiality of Silencio Blanco's
Puppetry
Carlos A. Ortiz
5 Chambre Noire: Relational Puppetry and Female Embodiment in the Puppetry
of Yngvild Aspeli and Plexus Polaire
Felice Amato
6 Materializing the Immaterial: Puppets and Masks of Indonesia, Thailand,
and Myanmar (Burma)
Kathy Foley
PART 2
Practice
7 The Radicality of the Potato People
Denise Rogers Valenzuela
8 The Puppet Body as Performance Archive
Jane Catherine Shaw
9 Lost in Object Translation: Reading Meaning in Traditional Japanese
Puppetry
Claudia Orenstein
10 Queer Thinking of Puppetry
Heather Jeanne Denyer
11 Puppets and Dead Kings in Brazilian Theatre: Heiner Muller, Ophelias,
and Recurrent Hamletian Machines
Mayumi Ilari
12 Puppetry and Technoculture
Lawrence Switzky
PART 3
Perception
13 The Relationality of Puppet Life
Dawn Tracey Brandes
14 In Your Sight and In Your Mind: The Puppeteer as Cognitive Guide in
Koryu- Nishikawa V and Tom Lee's
Shank's Mare
Ana Díaz Barriga
15 Puppets, Perception, and the Uncanny: Watching Performances Through a
Cognitive Lens
Pia Banzhaf
16 Puppetry as Phenomena
Kate Brehm
17 Thinking through the Hand: Understanding the Puppet through Practice,
Gesture, and Touch in the Work of Handspring Puppet Company
Emma Smith Minkley
Afterword
Will Bixby
Foreword
John Bell
Introduction: Recentering the Puppet
Dassia N. Posner, Claudia Orenstein, and Alissa Mello
PART 1
Materials
1 Reading the Material of Performance
Dassia N. Posner
2 Notes on a Material Dramaturgy
Laura Purcell-Gates
3 A "Paper" Leviathan: Metaphor and Materiality in the Blair Thomas &
Company Moby Dick
Skye Strauss
4 Aesthetics of Precarity: The Vindicating Materiality of Silencio Blanco's
Puppetry
Carlos A. Ortiz
5 Chambre Noire: Relational Puppetry and Female Embodiment in the Puppetry
of Yngvild Aspeli and Plexus Polaire
Felice Amato
6 Materializing the Immaterial: Puppets and Masks of Indonesia, Thailand,
and Myanmar (Burma)
Kathy Foley
PART 2
Practice
7 The Radicality of the Potato People
Denise Rogers Valenzuela
8 The Puppet Body as Performance Archive
Jane Catherine Shaw
9 Lost in Object Translation: Reading Meaning in Traditional Japanese
Puppetry
Claudia Orenstein
10 Queer Thinking of Puppetry
Heather Jeanne Denyer
11 Puppets and Dead Kings in Brazilian Theatre: Heiner Muller, Ophelias,
and Recurrent Hamletian Machines
Mayumi Ilari
12 Puppetry and Technoculture
Lawrence Switzky
PART 3
Perception
13 The Relationality of Puppet Life
Dawn Tracey Brandes
14 In Your Sight and In Your Mind: The Puppeteer as Cognitive Guide in
Koryu- Nishikawa V and Tom Lee's
Shank's Mare
Ana Díaz Barriga
15 Puppets, Perception, and the Uncanny: Watching Performances Through a
Cognitive Lens
Pia Banzhaf
16 Puppetry as Phenomena
Kate Brehm
17 Thinking through the Hand: Understanding the Puppet through Practice,
Gesture, and Touch in the Work of Handspring Puppet Company
Emma Smith Minkley
Afterword
Will Bixby
John Bell
Introduction: Recentering the Puppet
Dassia N. Posner, Claudia Orenstein, and Alissa Mello
PART 1
Materials
1 Reading the Material of Performance
Dassia N. Posner
2 Notes on a Material Dramaturgy
Laura Purcell-Gates
3 A "Paper" Leviathan: Metaphor and Materiality in the Blair Thomas &
Company Moby Dick
Skye Strauss
4 Aesthetics of Precarity: The Vindicating Materiality of Silencio Blanco's
Puppetry
Carlos A. Ortiz
5 Chambre Noire: Relational Puppetry and Female Embodiment in the Puppetry
of Yngvild Aspeli and Plexus Polaire
Felice Amato
6 Materializing the Immaterial: Puppets and Masks of Indonesia, Thailand,
and Myanmar (Burma)
Kathy Foley
PART 2
Practice
7 The Radicality of the Potato People
Denise Rogers Valenzuela
8 The Puppet Body as Performance Archive
Jane Catherine Shaw
9 Lost in Object Translation: Reading Meaning in Traditional Japanese
Puppetry
Claudia Orenstein
10 Queer Thinking of Puppetry
Heather Jeanne Denyer
11 Puppets and Dead Kings in Brazilian Theatre: Heiner Muller, Ophelias,
and Recurrent Hamletian Machines
Mayumi Ilari
12 Puppetry and Technoculture
Lawrence Switzky
PART 3
Perception
13 The Relationality of Puppet Life
Dawn Tracey Brandes
14 In Your Sight and In Your Mind: The Puppeteer as Cognitive Guide in
Koryu- Nishikawa V and Tom Lee's
Shank's Mare
Ana Díaz Barriga
15 Puppets, Perception, and the Uncanny: Watching Performances Through a
Cognitive Lens
Pia Banzhaf
16 Puppetry as Phenomena
Kate Brehm
17 Thinking through the Hand: Understanding the Puppet through Practice,
Gesture, and Touch in the Work of Handspring Puppet Company
Emma Smith Minkley
Afterword
Will Bixby







