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Title The performance studies reader / edited by Henry Bial
Published London : Routledge, 2004
London ; New York : Routledge : Taylor & Francis Group, 2004
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Description xix, 329 pages ; 25 cm
Contents Performance studies: the broad spectrum approach / Richard Schechner -- Disciplines of the text: sites of performance / W.B. Worthen -- The liminal-norm / Jon McKenzie -- Professing performances: disciplinary genealogies / Shannon Jackson -- Performance studies / Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett -- Performances: belief in the part one is playing / Erving Goffman -- Blurred genres: the refiguration of social thought / Clifford Geertz -- What is performance? / Marvin Carlson -- Life the movie / Neal Gabler -- Liminality and communitas / Victor Turner -- "Performance" and other analogies / Catherine Bell -- "The blood that runs through the veins": the creation of identity and a client's experience of Cuban-American santeria dilogun divination / Michael Atwood Mason -- Saint Orlan: ritual as violent spectacle and cultural criticism / Alyda Faber -- The nature and significance of play as a cultural phenomenon / Johan Huizinga -- A theory of play and fantasy / Gregory Bateson -- The ambiguity of play: rhetorics of fate / Brian Sutton-Smith -- Just doing / Allan Kaprow -- How to do things with words: lecture II / J.L. Austin -- Performative acts and gender constitution: an essay in phenomenology and feminist theory / Judith Butler -- Introduction to Performativity and performance / Andrew Parker and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick -- Theater and anthropology, theatricality and culture / Johannes Fabian -- A dialogue about acting / Bertolt Brecht -- The actor's technique / Jerzy Grotowski -- A dream of passion / Lee Strasberg -- Presenting and re-presenting the self: from not-acting to acting in African performance / Frances Harding -- First attempts at a stylized theatre / Vsevolod Meyerhold -- The oral artist: training and preparation / Isidore Okpedwho -- The performance text / Marco de Marinis -- The deep order called turbulence: the three factors of dramaturgy / Eugenio Barba -- Performing ethnography / Victor Turner with Edie Turner -- Of mimicry and man / Homi K. Bhabha -- Culturas-in-extremis: performing against the cultural backdrop of the mainstream bizarre -- Guillermo Gomez-Pena -- Reverend Billy: preaching, protest and post-industrial flanerie / Jill Lane -- Performance studies: interventions and radical research / Dwight Conquergood
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Performance -- Study and teaching.
Acting.
Theater -- Anthropological aspects.
Performing arts.
Author Bial, Henry, 1970- editor
LC no. 2003005708
ISBN 0415302404
9780415302401
0415302412
9780415302418