Professing Performance
Theatre in the Academy from Philology to Performativity
Published on 8. April 2004
Book
Hardback
268 pages
978-0-521-65189-9 (ISBN)
Description
Today's academic discourse is filled with the word 'perform'. Nestled amongst a variety of prefixes and suffixes (re-, post-, -ance, -ivity?), the term functions as a vehicle for a host of contemporary inquiries. For students, artists, and scholars of performance and theatre, this development is intriguing and complex. By examining the history of theatre studies and related institutions and by comparing the very different disciplinary interpretations and developments that led to this engagement, Professing Performance offers ways of placing performance theory and performance studies in context. This 2004 book considers the connection amongst a range of performance forms such as oratory, theatre, dance, and performance art and explores performance as both a humanistic and technical field of education. Throughout, she explores the institutional history of performance in the US academy in order to revise current debates around the role of the arts and humanities in higher education.
Reviews / Votes
"Highly recommended for its detailed treatment of the obstacles and promise of performance studies." Theatre Journal "Although a relatively slim volume, Professing Performance is an unusually ambitious, far-ranging and richly textured study." The Drama Review David SavranMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
513 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-65189-9 (9780521651899)
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Person
Shannon Jackson is a mixed-race Canadian insomniac who hates winter and watches far too many movies. A hermit and sarcastic curmudgeon, Shannon strongly prefers the company of bunnies to that of other humans, writes stories to entertain imaginary friends, and predicts we will be the primary cause of the inevitable downfall of our species long before our robot overlords can unite and begin their revolt.
Content
1. Discipline and performance: genealogy and discontinuity; 2. Institutions and performance: professing performance in the early twentieth century; 3. Culture and Performance: structures of dramatic feeling; 4. Practice and performance: modernist paradoxes and literalist legacies; 5. History and performance: blurred genres and the particularising of the past; 6. Identity and performance: racial performativity and anti-racist theatre.