caa a22 4500 38809382X CHVBK 20180307125259.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199911 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0266464X00013245 doi S0266464X00013245 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0266464X00013245 Kuppers Petra Moving in the Cityscape: Performance and the Embodied Experience of the Flâneur [Elektronische Daten] [Petra Kuppers] Walter Benjamin's concept of the flâneur has been widely used to conventionalize ‘the disinterested voyeur, the lonely figure haunting the streets of cities, the person who watches the spectacle of modern life'. Petra Kuppers argues that the flâneur is as central to the ‘nineties cityscape as to that of Baudelaire's Paris, of which Benjamin was writing, or to his own inter-war Berlin. She responds to feminist and other objections and, while recognizing the validity of later writings on the nature of the body such as Foucault's, argues that the flâneur remains valuable in counterbalancing ‘aspects of contemporary theory that use the human body as metaphor' with the physicality of ‘a lived set of material practices and inscribed discourses'. To illustrate and develop her argument she uses moments from Kathryn Bigelow's film Strange Days (1996), performances by the Austrian group Bilderwerfer and by Francesca Vilalta-Ollé, and the camera-dance made for TV, Pace (1996). Petra Kuppers is Research Fellow in Performing Arts at Manchester Metropolitan University. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999 New Theatre Quarterly Cambridge University Press 15/4(1999-11), 308-317 0266-464X 15:4<308 1999 15 NTQ https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266464X00013245 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266464X00013245 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Kuppers Petra NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- New Theatre Quarterly Cambridge University Press 15/4(1999-11), 308-317 0266-464X 15:4<308 1999 15 NTQ CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge