Innehåller index samt bibliografiska referenser

Introduction / Dassia N. Posner, Claudia Orenstein, and John Bell -- Part I: Theory and practice / edited and introduced by John Bell -- Section I: Theoretical approaches to the puppet. The death of "the puppet"? / Margaret Williams -- The co-presence and ontological ambiguity of the puppet / Paul Piris -- Playing with the eternal uncanny: the persistent life of lifeless objects / John Bell -- Section II: Perspectives from practitioners. Visual dramaturgy: some thoughts for puppet theatre-makers / Eric Bass -- Puppetry, authorship, and the Ur-narrative / Basil Jones -- Petrushka’s voice / Alexander Gref and Elena Slonimskaya -- "Clouds are made of white!": the intersection of live art and puppetry as an approach to postdramatic children’s theatre / Rike Reiniger -- Movement is consciousness / Kate Brehm -- The eye of light: the tension of image and object in shadow theatre and beyond / Stephen Kaplin -- The third thing / Jim Lasko -- Post-decivilization efforts in the nonsense suburb of art / Peter Schumann -- Part II: New dialogues with history and tradition / edited and introduced by Claudia Orenstein -- Section III: Revisiting history. Making a troublemaker: Charlotte Charke’s proto-feminist Punch / Amber West -- Life-death and disobedient obedience: Russian modernist redefinitions of the puppet / Dassia N. Posner -- The Saracen of Opera dei Pupi: a study of race, representation, and identity / Lisa Morse -- Puppet think: the implication of Japanese ritual puppetry for thinking through puppetry performances / Jane Marie Law -- Relating to the cross: a puppet perspective on the Holy Week ceremonies of the Regularis Concordia / Debra Hilborn -- Section IV: Negotiating tradition. Traditional and post-traditional wayang kulit in Java today / Matthew Isaac Cohen -- Korean puppetry and heritage: Hyundai Puppet Theatre and Creative Group NONI translating tradition / Kathy Foley -- Forging new paths for Kerala’s tolpavakoothu leather shadow puppetry tradition / Claudia Orenstein -- Integration of puppetry tradition into contemporary theatre: the reinvigoration of the vertep puppet nativity play after communism in Eastern Europe / Ida Hledíková -- Part III: Contemporary investigations and hybridizations / edited and introduced by Dassia N. Posner -- Section V: Material performances in contemporary theatre. From props to prosopopeia: making After Cardenio / Jane Taylor -- "A total spectacle but a divided one": redefining character in Handspring Puppet Company’s Or you could kiss me / Dawn Tracey Brandes -- Reading a puppet show: understanding the three-dimensional narrative / Robert Smythe -- Notes on new model theatres / Mark J. Sussman -- Section VI: New directions and hybrid forms. From puppet to robot: technology and the human in Japanese theatre / Cody Poulton -- Unholy alliances and harmonious hybrids: new fusions in puppetry and animation / Colette Searls -- Programming play: puppets, robots, and engineering / Elizabeth Ann Jochum and Todd Murphey -- Return to the mound: animating infinite potentia in clay, food, and compost / Eleanor Margolies.