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Puppet Theory : = The Mechanical Infrastructure of Personhood.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Puppet Theory :/
Reminder of title:	The Mechanical Infrastructure of Personhood.
Author:	Fenley, Marissa.
Description:	1 online resource (212 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-02, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International84-02A.
Subject:	Theater. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=29319872click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9798841795582

Puppet Theory : = The Mechanical Infrastructure of Personhood.
Fenley, Marissa.

Puppet Theory :The Mechanical Infrastructure of Personhood. - 1 online resource (212 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-02, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Chicago, 2022.

Includes bibliographical references

This dissertation begins from a rather simple observation: puppets, with varying degrees of success, replicate people. As a predominantly anthropomorphic project, American puppetry in the 20th and 21st centuries borrows from various conceptions of what a person is in order to convincingly reproduce or renegotiate these dynamics through artificial, mechanized means. I offer a study of the materialist backstories of four puppetry traditions-ventriloquism, marionetting, protest puppetry and Muppetry-in order to bring into view their submerged histories and to attend to the ways these histories re-emerge when these mechanized objects and the techniques for animating them are engaged in performance. Personhood, within these puppetry traditions, is rendered distinctly mechanical: it entails a set of operations that produce a figure with a recognizable set of expressive repertoires-a repertoire that is necessarily limited. The puppet's mechanics not only teach us the minimum requirements to believably seem like a person, but also those aspects of personhood we could just as well do without. I argue that puppetry allows us to see the mechanical infrastructure of personhood as well as the often violent and oppressive means by which this infrastructure is mechanically sutured to bodies. I offer puppet theory as a method for tracking the ways that puppets materialize the logic of what makes a person a person and thus make available new kinds of thought for how personhood could be imagined differently.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2023

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798841795582Subjects--Topical Terms:

522973
Theater.
Subjects--Index Terms:

MarionetteIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

542853
Electronic books.

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