New Series: Performance and Digital Cultures

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Posted By: Russell Fewster
Status: Current
Date Posted: Mon, 5 Aug 2024
Performance and Digital Cultures is a trailblazing series of short books, designed to offer timely interventions in scholarship on the technologization of performance in rapidly accelerating post-internet cultures. The series collates cutting-edge critical investigations from researchers, well-established scholars expanding their expertise to include technologically informed approaches and emergent new voices contributing to the field of intermedial and postdigital performance analysis.

With opening provocations offered by key thinkers and makers, this book series gathers unique insights on a range of topics that are redefining expanded performance practices in convergent culture, in a bite-sized format.
 
Series Editors:
Liam Jarvis
, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, UK
Karen Savage, University of Lincoln, UK

Advisory Board: Russell Fewster, University of South Australia | Catherine Makhumula-
Mtimuni, University of Malawi | Eirini Nedelkopoulou, University of Glasgow, UK |
Jen Parker-Starbuck, Royal Holloway University of London, UK | Ralf Remshardt, University
of Florida, USA

Available now:
Postdigital Performances of Care: Technology & Pandemic
By Liam Jarvis & Karen Savage
A timely examination of the survival instinct of practitioners and audiences engaged in theatre-making and theatre-going – a cultural activity that has been deemed among the riskiest in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Jan 2024 | HB 9781350272101

Have a proposal you think would be a great fit for the series? Reach out to Assistant Editor Ella Wilson at: ella.wilson@bloomsbury.com. Or to the Series Editors at: liam.jarvis@cssd.ac.uk / ksavage@lincoln.ac.uk