The Uncanny and the Real
In her book Culture and the Real, Catherine Belsey suggests that the source of uncanny unease in horror films is the incursion of patently non-real/supernatural objects into the real world. […]
Tag Archives: framing
The readymade real: selectivity and the frame
Last weekend I had the privilege to attend the Festival of Original Theatre conference 2016 presented by the students at the Graduate Centre for Study of Drama, Theatre and Performance […]
Lack of Safety and the Weakened Theatrical Frame
As Josette Feral explains so lucidly, the main perceptual act in creating theatricality is the carving out of fictional space from mundane space (I am paraphrasing hugely here). To bring […]
Upsurges of the Real: a performance research blog 