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Helping an Audience to Get the Point (of View) in Performance – LEON SEAMAN
In my last post, Perspective in Live Performance: to Embody or Not to Embody, I briefly told how perspective criticism helped me block Mark’s baptism and transfiguration scenes for performance. A...
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Rejoinder to ‘How Perspective Criticism Actually Works (demonstrated by an...
It is good to ask whether the different planes of point of view reinforce each other or limit each other, as Gary Yamasaki argues in the post entitled How Perspective Criticism Actually Works...
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Responding to How Seaman Would Craft a Performance of Mark 6:49-52 – GARY...
Over the past month, Leon Seaman has contributed two posts addressing ways in which attention to point-of-view dynamics impacts his performance of Mark. The earlier one–Perspective in Live Performance:...
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Further Comment on Mark 6:49-52 – ROBERT TANNEHILL
I agree with Gary Yamasaki (Responding to How Seaman Would Craft a Performance of Mark 6:49-52) that it is a mistake to present the disciples in Mark 6:49-52 from an external (“objective”) perspective,...
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Blocking Mark 6.47-52 for Live Solo Performance: A Response to Yamasaki and...
In my first two posts, I noted all-too-briefly how Gary Yamasaki’s work on point-of-view planes influenced my own work of Markan performance. I attended to some aspects, but not to others, of certain...
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Another Take on the Crafting of a Performance of Mark 6:47-52 – PHIL RUGE-JONES
I’ve been invited to chime in out of my own performance experience. I do think that the audience is supposed to empathize with the disciples in order to see themselves in the complex responses of the...
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(quarter)YEAR in REVIEW. . .and a look ahead to a New Year of Perspective...
This blog was launched three months ago, and from the beginning, it has been intended as a site for the collective development of biblical scholarship. Specifically, it exists as a venue for dialogue...
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Unmixing Our Metaphors, Media, and Methods: A Response to Phil Ruge-Jones —...
Gary Yamasaki’s work on point-of-view dynamics is rooted in literary criticism, but draws on the analogy of camera angle in film to illustrate these dynamics. When I read his first book, Watching a...
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Another word on Mark 6:47-52. . .with a focus on “Focalization”– STEVE BLACK
I wish to consider Mark 6:47-52, in the light of some of the conversation on this blog concerning it (see posts of Dec 5/2012, Dec 12/2012, Dec 13/2012, Dec 20/2012, Dec 21/2012, Jan 8/2013). I should...
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Sympathizing with a Most Unexpected Character in Mark – STEVE BLACK
It has been argued that point of view can be used as a means of getting the reader to sympathize with a given character (See Oct 25 and Oct 4 posts by Gary Yamasaki). Yamasaki argued in the Oct 25 post...
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