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This revolutionary introductory performance studies coursebook brings together classic texts in critical theory and shows how these texts can be used in the analysis of performance. The editors put their texts to work in examining such key topics as: * 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 * the borders of performance. Each reading is clearly introduced, making often complex critical texts accessible at an introductory level and immediately applicavble to the field of performance. The ideas explored within these readings are further clarified through innovative, carefully tested exercises and activities.
| ISBN | 0415224071 | | Pages | 264 | | ISBN13 | 9780415224079
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd | | Weight (grammes) | 422 | | Imprint | Routledge | | Published in | London | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 234 | | Publication date | 15 Mar 2001 | | Width (mm) | 156 | | Library of Congress | 00045789 | | Spine width (mm) | 15 | | DEWEY | 791.014 | | Academic level | Undergraduate, Postgraduate | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | |
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| | | Preface | | | | | | Acknowledgements | | | | Pt. 1 | | Decoding the artefact | | 1 | | 1.1 | | The sign: from Course in General Linguistics by Ferdinand de Saussure | | 3 | | 1.1 | | The sign: from Collected Papers by Charles S. Peirce | | 10 | | 1.2 | | Myth: from Mythologies by Roland Barthes | | 12 | | 1.3 | | Structure: from 'The Structural Study of Myth' by Claude Levi-Strauss | | 17 | | 1.4 | | The frame: from Frame Analysis by Erving Goffman | | 24 | | Pt. 2 | | The politics of performance | | 31 | | 2.1 | | Ideology: from 'Ideology and the Ideological State Apparatuses' by Louis Althusser | | 32 | | 2.2 | | Epic theatre: from 'The Street Scene' by Bertolt Brecht | | 43 | | 2.3 | | The postmodern avant-garde: from The Postmodern Condition by Jean-Francois Lyotard | | 49 | | Pt. 3 | | Performing gender and sexual identity | | 57 | | 3.1 | | Constructing gender I: The property model: from This Sex Which Is Not One by Luce Irigaray | | 59 | | 3.2 | | Constructing gender II: The culture/nature model: from 'Sorties' by Helene Cixous | | 66 | | 3.3 | | The drag act: from Gender Trouble by Judith Butler | | 72 | | 3.4 | | Gestic criticism: from 'Brechtian Theory/Feminist Theory' by Elin Diamond | | 77 | | 3.5 | | Acting camp: from The Politics and Poetics of Camp by Moe Meyer | | 86 | | Pt. 4 | | Performing ethnicity | | 95 | | 4.1 | | The Other: from 'The Economy of Manichean Allegory' by Abdul JanMohamed | | 97 | | 4.2 | | Blackface: from Love and Theft by Eric Lott | | 104 | | 4.3 | | The resisting viewer: from 'Teaching Resistance' by bell hooks | | 111 | | | More... | | |
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