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Performance Studies Reader, The 3rd edition


Performance Studies Reader, The 3rd edition

Paperback by Bial, Henry (University of Kansas, USA); Brady, Sara

Performance Studies Reader, The

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ISBN:
9781138023369
Publication Date:
17 Aug 2015
Edition/language:
3rd edition / English
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:
Routledge
Pages:
422 pages
Format:
Paperback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 2 May 2024
Performance Studies Reader, The

Description

Since its first publication in 2002, The Performance Studies Reader has become the leading anthology of key writings on performance studies. Now in its third edition, it continues to offer an unparalleled selection of work by the foremost in this continually evolving field. These critical and theoretical contributions are joined in this edition by 16 new chapters, bringing the collection up to date with current discourse and ideas, and cross referencing exactly with Richard Schechner's Performance Studies: An Introduction. The two volumes combine perfectly to offer a unique and complete teaching resource. The Reader 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. Each essay now includes new contextual headnotes from the editors, to introduce students to the writer and their impact on the field. Newly added to this edition are contributions from: Augusto Boal, Jill Dolan, Faye C. Fei and William H. Sun, Erika Fischer Lichte, E. Patrick Johnson, Petra Kuppers, Hans-Thies Lehmann, Bruce McConachie, Jacques Ranciere, Joseph Roach, Rebecca Schneider, Ngugi wa Thiongo 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.

Contents

CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION Henry Bial and Sara Brady Part I What is Performance Studies? 1 - PERFORMANCE STUDIES: THE BROAD SPECTRUM APPROACH Richard Schechner 2 - THE LIMINAL NORM Jon McKenzie 3 - PROFESSING PERFORMANCES: DISCIPLINARY GENEALOGIES Shannon Jackson 4 - PERFORMANCE STUDIES Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett 5 - PERFORMANCE STUDIES: INTERVENTIONS AND RADICAL RESEARCH Dwight Conquergood 6 - Social Performance Studies: Discipline vs. Freedom Faye C. Fei and William H. Sun Part II What is Performance? 7 - PERFORMANCES: BELIEF IN THE PART ONE IS PLAYING Erving Goffman 8 - BLURRED GENRES: THE REFIGURATION OF SOCIAL THOUGHT Clifford Geertz 9 - EXCERPT FROM "RESTORATION OF BEHAVIOR" Richard Schechner 10 - WHAT IS PERFORMANCE? Marvin Carlson 11 - MARINA ABRAMOVIC: WITNESSING SHADOWS Peggy Phelan 12 - THE BLUNDERS OF ORPHEUS Joseph Roach Part III Ritual 13 - LIMINALITY AND COMMUNITAS Victor Turner 14 - "PERFORMANCE" AND OTHER ANALOGIES Catherine Bell 15 - "THE BLOOD THAT RUNS THROUGH THE VEINS": THE CREATION OF IDENTITY AND A CLIENT'S EXPERIENCE OF CUBAN-AMERICAN SANTERÍA DILOGÚN DIVINATION Michael Atwood Mason 16 - SAINT ORLAN: RITUAL AS VIOLENT SPECTACLE AND CULTURAL CRITICISM Alyda Faber 17 - PERFORMATIVE COMMEMORATIVES, THE PERSONAL, AND THE PUBLIC: SPONTANEOUS SHRINES, EMERGENT RITUAL Jack Santino 18 - REENACTMENT AND RELATIVE PAIN Rebecca Schneider Part IV Play 19 - THE NATURE AND SIGNIFICANCE OF PLAY AS A CULTURAL PHENOMENON Johan Huizinga 20 - A THEORY OF PLAY AND FANTASY Gregory Bateson 21 - THE AMBIGUITY OF PLAY Brian Sutton-Smith 22 - JUST DOING Allan Kaprow 23 - AN EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE ON PLAY, PERFORMANCE, AND RITUAL Bruce McConachie 24 - THE SOLDIER CYCLE: HARUN FAROCKI'S IMAGES OF WAR (AT A DISTANCE) Sara Brady Part V Performativity 25 - HOW TO DO THINGS WITH WORDS: LECTURE II J.L. Austin 26 - Excerpt from SIGNATURE EVENT CONTEXT Jacques Derrida 27 - PERFORMATIVE ACTS AND GENDER CONSTITUTION Judith Butler 28 - INTRODUCTION TO PERFORMATIVITY AND PERFORMANCE Andrew Parker and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 29 - THEATRE AND ANTHROPOLOGY, THEATRICALITY AND CULTURE Johannes Fabian 30 - UTOPIAN PERFORMATIVES Jill Dolan Part VI Performing 31 - A DIALOGUE ABOUT ACTING Bertolt Brecht 32 - THE ACTOR'S TECHNIQUE Jerzy Grotowski 33 - A DREAM OF PASSION Lee Strasberg 34 - EXCERPT FROM THE RAINBOW OF DESIRE Augusto Boal 35 - RECONSIDERING STANISLAVSKY: FEELING, FEMINISM, AND THE ACTOR Rhonda Blair 36 - Addenda, Phenomenology, Embodiment: Cyborgs and Disability Performance Petra Kuppers Part VII Performance Processes 37 - FIRST ATTEMPTS AT A STYLIZED THEATRE Vsevolod Meyerhold 38 - THE ORAL ARTIST: TRAINING AND PREPARATION Isidore Okpewho 39 - THE DEEP ORDER CALLED TURBULENCE: THE THREE FACES OF DRAMATURGY Eugenio Barba 40 - THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF PERFORMANCE Mary Zimmerman 41 - Excerpt from Postdramatic Theatre Hans-Thies Lehmann 42 - Excerpt from The Emancipated Spectator Jacques Ranciere 43 - From Page to Stage: The Making of Sweet Tea Patrick E. Johnson Part VIII Global and Intercultural Performances 44 - PERFORMING ETHNOGRAPHY Victor Turner with Edie Turner 45 - OF MIMICRY AND MAN Homi K. Bhabha 46 - TRANSLATING PERFORMANCE Diana Taylor 47 - Interweaving Cultures in Performance: Different States of Being In-Between Erika Fischer-Lichte 48 - Hemispheric America in Deep Time Jill Lane 49 - Orature and Cyberture Ngugi wa Thiong'o 50 - Performance Studies 3.0 Henry Bial INDEX

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