Tragic Time in Drama, Film, and Videogames: The Future in the Instant (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781137585257)

This book explores how classical and Shakespearean tragedy has shaped the temporality of crisis on the stage and in time-travel films and videogames. In turn, it uncovers how performance and new media can challenge common assumptions about tragic causality and fate. Traditional tragedies may present us with a present when a calamity is staged, a decisive moment in which everything changes. However, modern performance, adaptation and new media can question the premises of that kind of present crisis and its fatality. By offering replays or alternative endings, experimental theatre, adaptation, time travel films and videogames reinvent the tragic experience of irreversible present time. This book offers the reader a fresh understanding of tragic character and agency through these new media's exposure of the genre's deep structure.

Author: Rebecca Bushnell
ISBN-10: 1137585250
ISBN-13: 9781137585257
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 11/23/2016
Pages: 108
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.67lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.38d