Elin Diamond

Performance and Cultural Politics (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Performance and Cultural Politics is a groundbreaking collection of essays which explore the historical and cultural territories of performance, written by the foremost scholars in the field. The essays, exploring performance art, theatre, music and dance, range from Oscar Wilde to Eric Clapton; from the Rose Theatre to U.S. Holocaust museums. The topic includes: * Sex Play: Stereotype, Pose and Dildo * Grave Performances: The Cultural Politics of Memory * Genealogies: Critical Performances * Identity Politics: Passing, Carnival and the Law In the concluding section, `Performer's Performance', performance artist Robbie McCauley offers the practitioner's perspective on performance studies. Interdisciplinary, thought-provoking and rich in new ideas, Performance and Cultural Politics is a landmark in the emerging field of performance studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136165955
• Artikelnr.: 39993582

Autorenporträt

Elin Diamond

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction
I: Re-Sexing Culture
2: Acting out Orientalism
3: Posing the Question
4: Doing it Anyway
II: Grave Performances
5: Playing Dead in Stone, or, When is a Rose not a Rose? 1
6: Spectacles of Suffering
7: Festivities and Jubilations on the Graves of the Dead
III: Moving/Seeing
8: Pygmalion's No-Body and The Body of Dance
9: After US The Savage Goddess
10: Flat-Out Vision
11: Liveness
IV: Identity Politics
12: Kinship, Intelligence, and Memory As Improvisation
13: Forms of Appearance of Value
V: Performer/Performance
14: Thoughts On My Career, The Other Weapon, and Other Projects