Performance and Cultural Politics

1. Auflage 1996
ISBN: 978-0-415-12768-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 308 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 232 mm, Gewicht: 653 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Diamond, Elin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatersoziologie, Theaterpsychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatertheorie, Ästhetik des Theaters, Theaterkritik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Elin Diamond