The Routledge Companion to Puppetry and Material Performance [Paperback]

Edited and Introduced by John Bell

Section I: Theoretical Approaches to the Puppet

1. The Death of The Puppet? by Margaret Williams(
2. Co-presence and Ontological Ambiguity of the Puppet by Paul Piris
3. ( Playing with the Eternal Uncanny: The Persistent Life of Lifeless Objects by John Bell

Section II: Perspectives from Practitioners

4. Visual Dramaturgy: Some Thoughts for Puppet Theater Makers by Eric Bass(
5. Puppetry, Authorship, and the Ur-Narrative by Basil Jones(
6. Petrushkas Voice by Alexander Gref and Elena Slonimskaya
7. Clouds are Made of White! by Rike Reiniger
8. Movement is Consciousness by Kate Brehm(
9. The Eye of Light: The Tension of Image and Object in Shadow Theatre and Beyond by Stephen Kaplin(
10. The Third Thing by Jim Lasko
11. Post-Decivilization Efforts in The Nonsense Suburb of Art by Peter Schumann

Part II: New Dialogues with History and Tradition

Edited and Introduced by Claudia Orenstein

Section III: Revisiting History

12. Making A Troublemaker: Charlotte Charkes Proto-Feminist Punch by Amber West
13. Life-Death and Disobedient Obedience: Russian Modernist Redefinitions ls'