Taylor Performance

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7512-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten

In this invitation to reflect on the power of performance, Diana Taylor explores the multiple and overlapping meanings of performance, showing how it can convey everything from artistic, economic, and sexual performance, to providing ways of understanding how race, gender, identity, and power are performed.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Taylor, Diana

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

1. Framing [Performance]

2. Performance Histories

3. Spect-Actors

4. The New Uses of Performance

5. Performative and Performativity

6. Knowing through Performance: Scenarios and Simulation

7. Artivists (Artist-Activists), or What's to Be Done?

8. The Future(s) of Performance

9. Performance Studies

Notes

Über Autor(innen)

Diana Taylor is University Professor of Performance Studies and Spanish at New York University. She is the author and editor of several books, including The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas and Disappearing Acts: Spectacles of Gender and Nationalism in Argentina's "Dirty War", both also published by Duke University Press.