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Table of Contents
Foreword | |
Entertainment, Spectacle, Crime: Puppetry in the Year 2000 | p. 1 |
Introduction: Puppets, Masks, and Performing Objects at the End of the Century | p. 5 |
A Puppet Tree: A Model for the Field of Puppet Theatre | p. 18 |
Julie Taymor: From Jacques Lecoq to The Lion King | p. 26 |
What, At the End of This Century, Is the Situation of Puppets and Performing Objects? | p. 46 |
The End of Our Domestic Resurrection Circus: Bread and Puppet Theater and Counterculture Performance in the 1990s | p. 52 |
Performing the Intelligent Machine: Deception and Enchantment in the Life of the Automaton Chess Player | p. 71 |
Czech Puppet Theatre and Russian Folk Theatre | p. 87 |
Modicut Puppet Theatre: Modernism, Satire, and Yiddish Culture | p. 105 |
Articulations: The History of All Things | p. 125 |
If Gandhi Could Fly ...: Dilemmas and Directions in Shadow Puppetry of India | p. 144 |
Rediscovering Mask Performance in Peru: Gustavo Boada, Maskmaker with Yuyachkani | p. 159 |
The Art of Puppetry in the Age of Media Production | p. 172 |
Biographies | p. 186 |
Index | p. 189 |
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