Joanna Hofer-Robinson
Biographic Data
| ID | 6535934 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joanna Hofer-Robinson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joanna |
| FAMILY NAME | Hofer-Robinson |
| SIGNATURE | HOFER-ROBINSON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College Cork |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2262-5506 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Beyond Breakdown
Alternation between mundane invisibility and spectacular foregrounding is a critical touchstone of infrastructural aesthetics. Infrastructure failures, which often mediate between these states, therefore attract disproportionate attention despite focusing scholarly enquiry on things that no longer function as infrastructure. This article seeks to escape this impasse through analysing cultural artefacts for evidence of processes which are inconspi…
Repertoire
This keywords entry proposes that critical infrastructure studies allows us to better understand the cultural lives of nineteenth-century theatrical repertoires and asks: How would conceptualizing theatrical repertoire as an imaginative infrastructure help us understand its cultural legacies in our own day? Nineteenth-century theatrical repertoires functioned in analogous ways to material-technical infrastructure: on one hand, providing routine a…
Twin sisters”
Dion Boucicault's The Colleen Bawn (1860) is typically considered a foundational text for the dramatic genre of sensation. 1 The famous "sensation scene," in which Myles na Coppaleen dives into a lake to save the heroine from drowning, began a trend to foreground elaborate, "specialeffects-driven" climaxes as the primary attraction for theatregoers (Daly 2009, 3).Boucicault continued to use sensation scenes to draw in audiences over the next two …
Dickens and Demolition
Kaleidoscopes of Changing Pictures’
Toy theatre was an adjunct trade to London theatreland in the nineteenth century. Publishers produced miniature versions of popular productions on stage in contemporary playhouses. Consequently, toy theatre has typically been studied as a unique visual record of theatrical scenery and costumes. This article aims to question these assumptions, and to argue that these toys should be critically examined as performances in their own right. In 1854 th…
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Dickens and Demolition
Kaleidoscopes of Changing Pictures’
Toy theatre was an adjunct trade to London theatreland in the nineteenth century. Publishers produced miniature versions of popular productions on stage in contemporary playhouses. Consequently, toy theatre has typically been studied as a unique visual record of theatrical scenery and costumes. This article aims to question these assumptions, and to argue that these toys should be critically examined as performances in their own right. In 1854 th…
Twin sisters”
Dion Boucicault's The Colleen Bawn (1860) is typically considered a foundational text for the dramatic genre of sensation. 1 The famous "sensation scene," in which Myles na Coppaleen dives into a lake to save the heroine from drowning, began a trend to foreground elaborate, "specialeffects-driven" climaxes as the primary attraction for theatregoers (Daly 2009, 3).Boucicault continued to use sensation scenes to draw in audiences over the next two …
Repertoire
This keywords entry proposes that critical infrastructure studies allows us to better understand the cultural lives of nineteenth-century theatrical repertoires and asks: How would conceptualizing theatrical repertoire as an imaginative infrastructure help us understand its cultural legacies in our own day? Nineteenth-century theatrical repertoires functioned in analogous ways to material-technical infrastructure: on one hand, providing routine a…
Beyond Breakdown
Alternation between mundane invisibility and spectacular foregrounding is a critical touchstone of infrastructural aesthetics. Infrastructure failures, which often mediate between these states, therefore attract disproportionate attention despite focusing scholarly enquiry on things that no longer function as infrastructure. This article seeks to escape this impasse through analysing cultural artefacts for evidence of processes which are inconspi…
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