| Description |
xiii, 250 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Pt. 1. Decoding the artefact -- 1.1. The sign: from Course in General Linguistics / Ferdinand de Saussure -- 1.1. The sign: from Collected Papers / Charles S. Peirce -- 1.2. Myth: from Mythologies / Roland Barthes -- 1.3. Structure: from 'The Structural Study of Myth' / Claude Levi-Strauss -- 1.4. The frame: from Frame Analysis / Erving Goffman -- Pt. 2. The politics of performance -- 2.1. Ideology: from 'Ideology and the Ideological State Apparatuses' / Louis Althusser -- 2.2. Epic theatre: from 'The Street Scene' / Bertolt Brecht -- 2.3. The postmodern avant-garde: from The Postmodern Condition / Jean-Francois Lyotard -- Pt. 3. Performing gender and sexual identity -- 3.1. Constructing gender I: The property model: from This Sex Which Is Not One / Luce Irigaray -- 3.2. Constructing gender II: The culture/nature model: from 'Sorties' / Helene Cixous -- 3.3. The drag act: from Gender Trouble / Judith Butler -- 3.4. Gestic criticism: from 'Brechtian Theory/Feminist Theory' / Elin Diamond -- 3.5. Acting camp: from The Politics and Poetics of Camp / Moe Meyer -- Pt. 4. Performing ethnicity -- 4.1. The Other: from 'The Economy of Manichean Allegory' / Abdul JanMohamed -- 4.2. Blackface: from Love and Theft / Eric Lott -- 4.3. The resisting viewer: from 'Teaching Resistance' / bell hooks -- 4.4. Orality: from 'De-scribing Orality' / Helan Gilbert -- Pt. 5. The performing body -- 5.1. Political bodies: from Discipline and Punish / Michel Foucault -- 5.2. Moving bodies: the mime: from 'The Discourse of (the) Mime' / Patrice Pavis -- 5.3. Transgressive bodies: from 'The Body of Signification' / Elizabeth Grosz -- 5.4. The body adorned: from Adorned in Dreams / Elizabeth Wilson -- Pt. 6. The space of performance -- 6.1. Enacting space: from 'Space and Context' / Yi-Fu Tuan -- 6.2. Locus and Platea: from Shakespeare and the Popular Tradition / Robert Weimann -- 6.3. Environmental space: from Places of Performance / Marvin Carlson -- Pt. 7. Spectator and audience -- 7.1. The interactive spectator: from 'Interaction between Text and Reader' / Wolfgang Iser -- 7.2. The gaze: from 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema' / Laura Mulvey -- 7.3. Structure of feeling: from Marxism and Literature / Raymond Williams -- Pt. 8. At the borders of performance -- 8.1. Liminal and liminoid: from 'Liminal to Liminoid, in Play, Flow, and Ritual' / Victor Turner -- 8.2. The pageant: from Carnival and Theatre / Michael Bristol -- 8.3. Carnival: from Rabelais and His World / Mikhail Bakhtin -- 8.4. Deep play: from 'Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight' / Clifford Geertz -- Pt. 9. Analysing performance: The Patrice Pavis Questionnaire |
| Summary |
Brings together texts in critical theory and shows how these texts can be used in the analysis of performance. Themed sections include decoding the sign; the politics of performance; the politics of gender and sexual identity; performing ethnicity; the performing body; the space of performance; audience and spectatorship; and the borders of performance--From publisher description |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Human body -- Political aspects.
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Gender identity -- Political aspects.
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Performing arts -- Political aspects.
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Performing arts -- Semiotics.
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Semiotics.
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| Author |
Counsell, Colin, 1956-
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Wolf, Laurie.
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| LC no. |
2000045789 |
| ISBN |
0415224063 (hbk.) |
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0415224071 (paperback) |
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