The Performance Studies Reader
2nd Edition
Published on 5. April 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
424 pages
978-0-415-77275-4 (ISBN)
Description
Following on from the highly successful first anthology of critical and theoretical writings on performance studies, this is an updated and significantly expanded second edition which brings the anthology up to date with current debate.
The new edition contains expanded introductory essays, eight entirely new pieces, and is cross-referenced with Richard Schechner's second edition of Performance Studies: An Introduction. The two volumes combine perfectly to offer a unique and complete teaching resource. This important collection is also widely used by students and scholars around the world as a stand-alone text, offering a stimulating introduction to the crucial debates of performance studies.
Collecting together key critical pieces, the Reader provides an overview of the full range of performance theory for undergraduates at all levels, and beginning graduate students in performance studies, theatre, performing arts and cultural studies.
The new edition contains expanded introductory essays, eight entirely new pieces, and is cross-referenced with Richard Schechner's second edition of Performance Studies: An Introduction. The two volumes combine perfectly to offer a unique and complete teaching resource. This important collection is also widely used by students and scholars around the world as a stand-alone text, offering a stimulating introduction to the crucial debates of performance studies.
Collecting together key critical pieces, the Reader provides an overview of the full range of performance theory for undergraduates at all levels, and beginning graduate students in performance studies, theatre, performing arts and cultural studies.
More details
Edition
2nd New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Adult education
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
1 s/w Zeichnung
1 Line drawings, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 174 mm
Weight
771 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-77275-4 (9780415772754)
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New editions
Henry Bial | Sara Brady
The Performance Studies Reader
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08/2015
3rd Edition
Routledge
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Additional editions
Henry Bial | Sara Brady
The Performance Studies Reader
Book
03/2007
2nd Edition
Routledge
€126.28
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Persons
Henry Bial is Assistant Professor of Theatre and Film at the University of Kansas. He is the author of Acting Jewish: Negotiating Ethnicity on the American Stage and Screen and co-editor, with Carol Martin, of Brecht Sourcebook.
Content
Introduction Henry Bial Part 1: What is Performance Studies? Richard Schechner, W.B. Worthen, Jon McKenzie, Shannon Jackson, Barbara Kirschenblatt-Gimblett, John Bell Part 2: What is Performance? Erving Goffman, Clifford Geertz, Marvin Carlson, Neal Gabler, Peggy Phelan Part 3: Ritual Victor Turner, Catherine Bell, Michael Atwood Mason, Alyda Fabe, Jack Santino Part 4: Play Johan Huizinga, Gregory Bateson, Brian Sutton-Smith, Allan Kaprow, B.J. Ancelet Part 5: Performativity J.L. Austin, Judith Butler, Andrew Parker and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Johannes Fabian, Jacques Derrida Part 6: Performing Bertolt Brecht, Jerzy Grotowski, Lee Strasberg, Frances Harding, Rhonda Blair Part 7: Performance Processes Vsevolod Meyerhold, Isidore Okpewho, Marco De Marinis, Eugenio Barba, Mary Zimmerman Part 8: Global and Intercultural Performance Victor Turner with Edie Turner, Homi K. Bhabha, Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Jill Lane, Dwight Conquergood, Diana Taylor