Performance Studies
Key Words, Concepts and Theories
1st Edition
Published on 27. November 2014
340 pages
978-1-137-46315-9 (ISBN)
Description
The field of performance studies analyses the production and impact of on-stage performance, such as in a theatre or circus, and off-stage performance, such as cultural rituals and political protests. Performance Studies: Key Words, Concepts and Theories introduces students to 34 key topics seen as paramount to the future of performance studies in a series of short, engaging essays by an international team of distinguished scholars. Each essay contributes to the wide-ranging, adventurous and conscientious nature that makes performance studies such an innovative, valuable and exciting field.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
ISBN-13
978-1-137-46315-9 (9781137463159)
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Content
- Cover
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: The Ethical Drive
- Chapter 1 The 'F' Word, Feminism's Critical Futures
- Chapter 2 Public Sphere
- Chapter 3 Paramodern
- Chapter 4 Digital Culture
- Chapter 5 Misperformance
- Chapter 6 Interval
- Chapter 7 Neuroaesthetics, Technoembodiment
- Chapter 8 Recursion, Iteration, Difference
- Chapter 9 Living History, Re-enactment
- Chapter 10 Performance Philosophy
- Chapter 11 Translation, Cultural Ownership
- Chapter 12 The Intense Exterior
- Chapter 13 Cosmopolitanism
- Chapter 14 Cultural Diversity
- Chapter 15 Citizenship, the Ethics of Inclusion
- Chapter 16 Installation, Constellation
- Chapter 17 Spatial Concepts
- Chapter 18 Consensus, Dissensus
- Chapter 19 Counterpropaganda, Resistance
- Chapter 20 Ekstasis
- Chapter 21 Social Somatics
- Chapter 22 Globalization, the Glocal, Third Space Theatre
- Chapter 23 Theatre of Immediacy, Transversal Poetics
- Chapter 24 Time in Theatre
- Chapter 25 Empathetic Engagement
- Chapter 26 Theories of Festival
- Chapter 27 Magic in Theatre
- Chapter 28 Animality, Posthumanism
- Chapter 29 Postdramatic Theatre
- Chapter 30 Evo-Neuro-Theatre
- Chapter 31 International/ism
- Chapter 32 Transculturation
- Chapter 33 Social Practice
- Chapter 34 'City'
- Index
