
Performance Studies
Erin Striff(Author)
Red Globe Press
Published on 27. September 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
XII, 213 pages
978-0-333-78674-1 (ISBN)
Description
What is performance? We do not need to be in a theatre to think about the theatricality of how we behave in culture, but can a performance exist if there are no spectators? How do we know when performances are taking place if there is no curtain rising and falling? What does the act of performance achieve? How does performance studies attempt to answer those questions?
This collection of lively and stimulating articles on performance studies provides an understandable introduction to the field, and to the way in which performance touches all of our lives - from the rituals and ceremonies in which we partake, to the way we present ourselves depending on the company we keep. Together these articles help clarify what constitutes performance studies and introduce the reader to the many theoretical perspectives - including feminist, queer, post-structuralist and post-colonial - which are used to study performance in culture. Acts considered range from those that can be easily identified as performance, such as the strip-show, to the more theoretically complex, such as performative speech.
One of the first of its kind on performance studies, this reader is an essential text for all those with an interest in the subject, or who are approaching it for the first time.
This collection of lively and stimulating articles on performance studies provides an understandable introduction to the field, and to the way in which performance touches all of our lives - from the rituals and ceremonies in which we partake, to the way we present ourselves depending on the company we keep. Together these articles help clarify what constitutes performance studies and introduce the reader to the many theoretical perspectives - including feminist, queer, post-structuralist and post-colonial - which are used to study performance in culture. Acts considered range from those that can be easily identified as performance, such as the strip-show, to the more theoretically complex, such as performative speech.
One of the first of its kind on performance studies, this reader is an essential text for all those with an interest in the subject, or who are approaching it for the first time.
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Series
Edition
2002
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
335 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-78674-1 (9780333786741)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-137-05398-5
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ERIN STRIFF is Assistant Professor of English at Hartford University, USA. She has published on feminist theatre and performance art.
Content
Introduction: Locating Performance Studies; E.Striff.- POPULAR PERFORMANCE.- The Power Team: Muscular Christianity and the Spectacle of Conversion; S.Mazer .- Ethnological Show Business: Footlighting the Dark Continent; B.Lindfors.- Striptease: Desire, Mimetic Jeopardy, and Performing Spectators; K.Liepe-Levinson.- PERFORMING BODIES, PERFORMANCE ART.- The Surgical Self: Body Alteration and Identity; P. Auslander.- Reconsidering Homophobia: Karen Finley's Indiscretions; L.Hart.- PERFORMING HISTORIES/MEMORIES.- Spectacular Suffering: Performing Presence, Absence and Witness at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum; V.M.Patraka.- Hearing Anita Hill and Clarence Tomas; P.Phelan.- PERFORMANCE AND THE WORLD.- The Street is the Stage; R.Schechner.- Culture and Performance in the Circum-Atlantic World; J.Roach.- Jewels Brought Back from Bondage: Black Music and the Politics of Authenticity; P.Gilroy.- PERFORMATIVITY/PERFORMANCE.- Critically Queer; J.Butler.- Choreographies of Gender; S.L.Foster.- Summaries and Notes.- Suggestions for Further Reading.- Notes on Contributors.- Index.