Sikes Representation and Identity from Versailles to the Present

The Performing Subject
2007
ISBN: 978-0-230-60561-9
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 214 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History

Sikes traces the shifting role of performance in the fashioning of subjectivity from the Modern to the Postmodern eras. The book joins history and historiography and is grounded in a body of research about varied performance subjects from court dance, ballet, opera, festivals, celebrations, propaganda films, Hollywood movies to reality TV.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sikes, A.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Identity and Representation in the Modern and Postmodern Eras The Performance of Privilege in the Reign of Louis XIV The Rise and Fall of the Castrato Singer Citizen Action and the Libratory Legacy of the French Revolution The Hysterical Woman From Zola to Freud Benjamin, Adorno, and the Politics of Mediatization Performativity and the Horizon of Hegemony

Über Autor(innen)

ALAN SIKES is Assistant Professor of Theatre at Hunter College at the City University of New York, USA.