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Title The rise of performance studies : rethinking Richard Schechner's broad spectrum / edited by James Harding and Cindy Rosenthal
Published Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (312 pages)
Series Studies in international performance
Studies in international performance.
Contents The Rise of Performance Studies: An Introduction; J. Harding & C. Rosenthal -- PART I: PERFORMANCE/THEATRE/STUDIES -- Performance Studies and the Enhancement of Theatre Studies; M. Carlson -- In Defence of the String Quartet: An Open Letter to Richard Schechner; S. Bottoms -- Experimenting with an Unfinished Discipline: Richard Schechner, the Avant-Garde and Performance Studies; J. Harding & C. Rosenthal -- PART II: PERFORMANCE STUDIES GENEALOGIES -- Wayang Studies?; P. Rae -- Today I am a Field: Performance Studies Comes of Age; H. Bial -- Richard Schechner and Performance Studies in China; P. Yongwen & Y. Jiancun -- Australian Performance Studies Marginally Off Centre; P. Eckersall -- PART III: WORKING WITH RICHARD -- Reactuals: From Personal to Critical and Back; R. Schneider -- Fanning the Flames: Richard Schechner's TDR; M. Sandford -- Liminal Richard: Approaches to Performance Studies; J. Emigh -- The Broadest Spectrum of Pluralities: Performance Studies, Theatre Practices, Theatre Histories, and Beyond; P. Zarrilli -- PART IV: PRACTICING PERFORMANCE: SCHECHNER AMONG THE PERFORMERS. -- Richard Schechner; J. Malina -- Interview; J. MacIntosh -- Interview; E. LeCompte -- For Richard; A.D. Smith -- Performing Against the Backdrop of the War on Terror; G. Gomez-Pena -- PART V: ENGAGING DIALOGUE: SCHECHNER AS CRITICAL INTERLOCUTOR -- Trauma as Durational Performance; D. Taylor -- Medical Clowning and Performance Theory; A. Citron -- Restored Restored Behavior or the Emperor of California Roll: 1989-90 Japanese Imperial Rites of Funeral and Enthronement; T. Yuichiro -- 'Deep Play, Dark Play': Framing the Limit(less); J. Roach
Summary The essays in this anthology are situated within the larger context of a critical engagement with Richard Schechner's work as a theatre practitioner, teacher, scholar, activist, and visionary. Through a wide variety of approaches, the contributors acknowledge the profound impact that Schechner's work has had on our understanding of performance as a mode of cultural practice and on the emergence of Performance Studies as a discipline. Some essays are embedded in intensely personal reflections on Schechner's work as a practitioner and teacher, while others take stock of critical concepts that are central to Schechner's work as a theorist and scholar. Yet it is not enough to say that the essays offer a critical survey of the broad spectrum of Schechner's cultural and intellectual endeavours. The essays all converge in an acknowledgement that few individuals within the theatre and performance communities have positioned their work so consistently or so consequentially as Schechner has within the key debates that have defined Performance Studies as a discipline
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Schechner, Richard, 1934- -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Schechner, Richard, 1934- fast
Subject Theater -- Anthropological aspects.
Performing arts.
performing arts (discipline)
Theatre studies.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
Performing Arts.
Performing arts
Theater -- Anthropological aspects
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Harding, James Martin, 1958-
Rosenthal, Cindy, 1954-
ISBN 9780230306059
0230306055
1283124556
9781283124553