The performance studies reader

The performance studies reader

by Bial, Henry

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This reader provides a lively anthology of critical writings on the burgeoning discipline of performance studies. It provides an overview of the full range of performance theory for undergraduates at all levels, and beginning graduate students in performance studies, theatre and performing arts.

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Title Statements

  • Full title :The performance studies reader / edited by Henry Bial.

Summary

This reader provides a lively anthology of critical writings on the burgeoning discipline of performance studies. It provides an overview of the full range of performance theory for undergraduates at all levels, and beginning graduate students in performance studies, theatre and performing arts.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2007.
  • Edition:2nd ed

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Routledge
  • Place of Publication:London
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2007.

Notes

Includes index.

The Physical Object

  • Description:xxiv, 394 pages : : illustrations ; : 25 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:0415772745, 9780415772747, 0415772753, 9780415772754
  • oclc:ocm76967330
  • LC Classification:PN2041.A57
  • Dewey Decimal:791

Table of Contents

Performance studies: the broad spectum approach / Richard Schechner -- Disciplines of the text: sites of performance / W.B. Worthen -- The liminal-norm / Jon McKenzie -- Professing performances: disciplinary genealogies / Shannon Jackson -- Performance studies / Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett -- Performance studies in an age of terror / John Bell -- Performances: belief in the part one is playing / Erving Goffman -- Blurred genres: the refiguration of social thought / Glifford Geertz -- What is performance? / Marvin Carlson -- Life the movie / Neal Gabler -- Marina Abramovic: witnessing shadows / Peggy Phelan -- Liminality and communitas / Victor Turner -- "Performance" and other analogies / Catherine Bell -- "The blood that runs through the veins": the creation of identity and a client's experience of Cuban-American Santeria Dilogun divination / Michael Atwood Mason -- Saint Orlan: ritual as violent spectacle and cultural criticism / Alyda Faber -- Performative commemoratives, the personal, and the public: spontaneous shrines, emergent ritual / Jack Santino -- The nature and significance of play as a cultural phenomenon / Johan Huizinga -- A theory of play and fantasy / Gregory Ba…

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Subjects

Arts du spectacle Performing arts Schauspielkunst Theater -- Anthropological aspects Theaterwissenschaft Théâtre -- Aspect anthropologique

Writers

Bial, Henry

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