The Cambridge Companion to Performance Studies

Herausgeber: Davis, Tracy C.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Presenting a clear overview of the diverse approaches to Performance Studies, this Companion provides a complete guide for students and scholars seeking a perspective on trends in the field. Bridging live art practices with technological media, and social sciences with humanities, it reflects the hybrid and experimental nature of this vibrant discipline.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Companions to Literature
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9780521696265
• ISBN-10: 0521696267
• Artikelnr.: 24706036

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The pirouette, detour, revolution, deflection, deviation,
tack, and yaw of the performative turn Tracy C. Davis; Part I. Social
Polities: History in Individuals: 1. Performance and democracy Nicholas
Ridout; 2. Performance as research: live events and documents Baz Kershaw;
3. Movement's contagion: the kinesthetic impact of performance Susan Leigh
Foster; 4. Performance matters: Bali and Baliology in the years of living
dangerously John Emigh; 5. Universal experience: the city as tourist stage
Susan Bennett; 6. Performance and intangible culture heritage Diana Taylor;
Part II. Body Politics: The Individual in History; 7. Live and
technologically mediated performance Philip Auslander; 8. Moving histories:
performance and oral history Della Pollock; 9. What is the 'social' in
social practice?: comparing experiments in performance Shannon Jackson; 10.
Live art in art history: a paradox? Amelia Jones; 11. Queer theory E.
Patrick Johnson.