Performance and Cultural Politics
1st Edition
Published on 15. April 2015
308 pages
978-1-136-16595-5 (ISBN)
Description
Performance and Cultural Politics is a groundbreaking collection of essays which explore the historical and cultural territories of performance, written by the foremost scholars in the field. The essays, exploring performance art, theatre, music and dance, range from Oscar Wilde to Eric Clapton; from the Rose Theatre to U.S. Holocaust museums. The topic includes:
* Sex Play: Stereotype, Pose and Dildo
* Grave Performances: The Cultural Politics of Memory
* Genealogies: Critical Performances
* Identity Politics: Passing, Carnival and the Law
In the concluding section, `Performer's Performance', performance artist Robbie McCauley offers the practitioner's perspective on performance studies.
Interdisciplinary, thought-provoking and rich in new ideas, Performance and Cultural Politics is a landmark in the emerging field of performance studies.
* Sex Play: Stereotype, Pose and Dildo
* Grave Performances: The Cultural Politics of Memory
* Genealogies: Critical Performances
* Identity Politics: Passing, Carnival and the Law
In the concluding section, `Performer's Performance', performance artist Robbie McCauley offers the practitioner's perspective on performance studies.
Interdisciplinary, thought-provoking and rich in new ideas, Performance and Cultural Politics is a landmark in the emerging field of performance studies.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Reflowable
File size
16,70 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-136-16595-5 (9781136165955)
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Elin Diamond
Performance and Cultural Politics
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01/1996
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Performance and Cultural Politics
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01/1996
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Content
1: Introduction; I: Re-Sexing Culture; 2: Acting out Orientalism; 3: Posing the Question; 4: Doing it Anyway; II: Grave Performances; 5: Playing Dead in Stone, or, When is a Rose not a Rose? 1; 6: Spectacles of Suffering; 7: Festivities and Jubilations on the Graves of the Dead; III: Moving/Seeing; 8: Pygmalion's No-Body and The Body of Dance; 9: After US The Savage Goddess; 10: Flat-Out Vision; 11: Liveness; IV: Identity Politics; 12: Kinship, Intelligence, and Memory As Improvisation; 13: Forms of Appearance of Value; V: Performer/Performance; 14: Thoughts On My Career, The Other Weapon, and Other Projects
