The Performance Studies Reader

Following on from the highly successful first anthology of critical and theoretical writings on performance studies, this is an updated and significantly expanded second edition which brings the anthology bang up to date with current debate. The new edition contains expanded introductory essays and eight entirely new pieces, and is cross-referenced with Richard Schechner's second edition of "Performance Studies: an Introduction." The two volumes combine perfectly to offer a unique and complete teaching resource. This important collection is also widely used by students and scholars around the world as a stand-alone text, offering a stimulating introduction to the crucial debates of performance studies. Collecting together key critical pieces, the "Reader" provides an overview of the full range of performance theory for undergraduates at all levels, and beginning graduate students in performance studies, theatre, performing arts and cultural studies.

ISBN 0415772753   Pages 424 ISBN13 9780415772754 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd   Weight (grammes) 748 Imprint Routledge   Published in London Format Paperback   Previous ISBN 9780415302418 Publication date 05 Apr 2007   Height (mm) 246 Library of Congress PN2041   Width (mm) 174 DEWEY 792   Spine width (mm) 23 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Further/Higher education

1		Performance studies : the broad spectrum approach by Richard Schechner		7
2		Disciplines of the text : sites of performance by W. B. Worthen		10
3		The liminal-norm by Jon McKenzie		26
4		Professing performances : disciplinary genealogies by Shannon Jackson		32
5		Performance studies by Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett		43
6		Performance studies in an age of terror by John Bell		56
7		Performances : belief in the part one is playing by Erving Goffman		61
8		Blurred genres : the refiguration of social thought by Clifford Geertz		66
9		What is performance? by Marvin Carlson		70
10		Life the movie by Neal Gabler		76
11		Marin Abramovic : witnessing shadows by Peggy Phelan		78
12		Liminality and communitas by Victor Turner		89
13		"Performance" and other analogies by Catherine Bell		98
14		"The blood that runs through the veins" : the creation of identity and a client's experience of Cuban-American Santeria Dilogun divination by Michael Atwood Mason		107
15		Saint Orlan : ritual as violent spectacle and cultural criticism by Alyda Faber		118
16		Performative commemoratives, the personal, and the public : spontaneous shrines, emergent ritual by Jack Santino		125
17		The nature and significance of play as a cultural phenomenon by Johan Huizinga		137
18		A theory of play and fantasy by Gregory Bateson		141
19		The ambiguity of play : rhetorics of fate by Brian Sutton-Smith		152
20		Just doing by Allan Kaprow		159
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"'A collection of this type has been needed for a long time.' -."-"Sally Harrison-Pepper, Miami University "'Clearly an important collection of essays that will provide an excellent resource.' -."-Nick Kaye, University of Manchester

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