Viral Performance

Contagious Theaters from Modernism to the Digital Age

Ranked #52 in Viral

Digital culture has occasioned a seismic shift in the discourse around contagion, transmission, and viral circulation. Yet theater, in the cultural imagination, has always been contagious. Viral Performance proposes the concept of the viral as an essential means of understanding socially engaged and transmedial performance practices since the mid-twentieth century. Its chapters rethink the Living Theatre’s Artaudian revolution through the lens of affect theory, bring fresh attention to General Idea’s media-savvy performances of the 1970s, explore the digital-age provocations of Franco... more

Similar Books

If you like Viral Performance, check out these similar top-rated books:


Learn: What makes Shortform summaries the best in the world?