Professor Emeritus Paul Bouissac (Canada University of Toronto)

The Semiotics of Performances

An Introduction to the Analysis, Interpretation, and Theory of the Performing Arts

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Produktbeschreibung

"Drawing on semiotic developments of the past five decades, this book introduces students to the semiotic analysis of live performances and provides them with a clear method for untangling the multimodal complexity of performance from the spectator's point of view. It explores a broad range of performance types from across different cultures, including music, opera, ballet, theatre, circus, mime, improvisation, and immersion, and is accompanied by a companion website featuring recorded extracts from live performances"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 288g
• ISBN-13: 9781350372658
• ISBN-10: 135037265X
• Artikelnr.: 70953789

Autorenporträt

Paul Bouissac is Professor Emeritus at Victoria College, University of Toronto, Canada. He is a world renowned figure in semiotics and a pioneer of circus studies. He runs the Semioticon, an Open Semiotics Resource Center, which has a global readership.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Preface
Introduction: The Real-Life Experience of Attending a Live Performance
1. Performance as Communication Process
2. Performance as Creative Process
3. The Construction of Performing Identities: From Person to Persona
4. Performance as Social Process
5. Performance as Affective Experience
6. Performance as Cognitive Experience: Narrative Structures and Relevance
7. Performance as Text: Description and Interpretation of Ephemeral Events
8. Performance as Metaphor: Performing Roles in Everyday Life
9. Beyond Performance: Social Impact, Reflexivity, and Transformative
Experience
10. The Rules of Performance: The Felicity Conditions
Index