Staging Icons, Performing Storyworlds – From Mystery Play to Cosplay

One of the oldest complex forms of intermediality is the static live-performance adaptation of the iconographic qualities of well-known stories. Early examples of this phenomenon are the depictions of biblical scenes in the form of grand (and largely static) tableaux in medieval Mystery Plays, very...

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Main Author: Domsch Sebastian
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2014-12-01
Series:Acta Universitatis Sapientiae: Film and Media Studies
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/ausfm-2015-0006