Puppets appear in all cultures. Often classified as puerile trifles, children's entertainment or educational tools, puppets are, in point of fact, enthralling – aesthetically, historically, philosophically and politically. The papers in this forum confront the relative dearth of secondary literature on the subject by engaging with puppetry from interdisciplinary perspectives and demonstrating its high topicality to pressing 21st-century critical and theoretical debates.
This forum is published as part of the Production Archives special collection and takes its origin from a major international conference jointly organised by Salzburg University and the Salzburg Marionette Theatre in 2020. The focus on ‘Puppets for Action’ resonates with the special collection’s agenda: a) to investigate critically neglected formats, stages and contexts of cultural production; b) to analyse the legacies of cultural productions as well as archival practices themselves (see: CORE – THEATRE | OPERA | FESTIVAL); c) to explore new research paradigms for identifying the interfaces between material practice, collaborative, creative and technical labour, and institutional, economic, socio-political and organisational forces.
Two further forums of this special collection are in publication with the Open Library of Humanities: Production Archives 02: Production Contexts, and Production Archives 03: Archival Practices.
Editor-in-chief: Prof. Sabine COELSCH-FOISNER (University of Salzburg).
Editorial board: Prof. Vicky ANGELAKI (Mid-Sweden University), Dr. Paul FAGAN (University of Salzburg), Prof. Roger LUCKHURST (Birkbeck College, University of London).
Image: Salzburg Marionette Theatre
Production Archives 01: Puppets for Action
In the Beginning There Were Dragon(cillo)s: Using Shadow Puppetry to Engage Young Audiences
Esther Fernández, Jason Yancey, Jonathan Wade and Jared White
2022-01-07 Volume 8 • Issue 1 • 2022
Also a part of:
Special Collection: Production Archives 01: Puppets for Action
The Puppet and the Puppet-Master in Ancient Greece: Fragments of an Art Form
Mali Annika Skotheim
2022-03-28 Volume 8 • Issue 1 • 2022
Also a part of:
Special Collection: Production Archives 01: Puppets for Action
The Gift of Happy Memories: A World War II Christmas Puppet Play in Ravensbrück
Cynthia Lisa Dretel
2022-08-18 Volume 8 • Issue 2 • 2022
Also a part of:
Special Collection: Production Archives 01: Puppets for Action
Special Collections
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Humour as a Human Right
Cultural Heritage Data for Research: Opening Museum Collections, Project Data and Digital Images for Research, Query and Discovery
Literature as Imaginary Archive: Ephemera and Modern Literary Production
Caliban's Mirror: Reflections of James Joyce and Oscar Wilde
Cultural Representations of Machine Vision
The Public Curatorship of the Medieval Past
Medieval Minds and Matter
Representing the Medieval in Popular Culture: Remembering the Angevins
The Politics and History of Menstruation: Contextualising the Scottish Campaign to End Period Poverty
Production Archives 03: Archival Practices
Production Archives 02: Production Contexts
Production Archives 01: Puppets for Action
Representing Classical Music in the Twenty-First Century
The Pathological Body: European Literary and Cultural Perspectives in the Age of Modern Medicine
Binary Modernisms: Re/Appropriations of Modernist Art in the Digital Age
Local and Universal in Irish Literature and Culture
Reading in Ruins: Exploring Posthumanist Narrative Studies
The Language of Perspective
Nancy Astor, Public Women and Gendered Political Culture in Interwar Britain
The Working-Class Avant-Garde
Colonialities in Dispute: Discourses on Colonialism and Race in the Spanish State
Powering the Future: Energy Resources in Science Fiction and Fantasy
Writers and Intellectuals on Britain and Europe, 1918–2018
Literature, Law and Psychoanalysis
Muslims in the Media
Encounters between Asian and Western Art in the 20th and 21st centuries: a liberating influence for Asia?
Waste: Disposability, Decay, and Depletion
Pride Revisited: Cinema, Activism and Re-Activation
New Approaches to Late Medieval Court Records
Utopian Art and Literature from Modern India
Right-Wing Populism and Mediated Activism: Creative Responses and Counter-Narratives
Representing Climate: Local to Global
Cultivating Spheres: Agriculture, Technical Communication, and the Publics
Freedom After Neoliberalism
The Medieval Brain
Remaking Collections
New Approaches to Medieval Water Studies
Imaginaries of the Future 01: Bodies and Media
Imaginaries of the Future 02: Politics, Poetics, Place
Imaginaries of the Future 03: Utopia at the Border
Postcolonial Perspectives in Game Studies
Station Eleven and Twenty-First-Century Writing
#Agreement20
What’s Left? Marxism, Literature and Culture in the 21st Century
New Voices in Jewish-American Literature
Authors, Narratives, and Audiences in Medieval Saints’ Lives
From TV To Film
American Literature & the Transnational Marketplace
Mnemosyne
Healing Gods, Heroes and Rituals in the Graeco-Roman World
The Abolition of the University