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Performance Analysis: An Introductory Coursebook
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Product Description
This revolutionary introductory performance studies coursebook brings together classic texts in critical theory and shows how these texts can be used in the analysis of performance.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #95749 in Books
- Published on: 2001-03-15
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 264 pages
Editorial Reviews
Review
'Performance Analysis is a remarkable collection of texts , remarkably presented. Its greatest strength is the flexibility it offers for teachers in many different settings. - Michael Peterson, Millikin University/University of Wisconsin-Madison
From the Back Cover
This revolutionary coursebook brings together classic texts in critical theory and shows how these texts can be used in the analysis of performance.
The editors put their texts to work in examining such key topics as:
decoding the sign
the politics of performance
the politics of gender and sexual identity
performing ethnicity
the performing body
the space of performance
audience and spectatorship
the borders of performance.
Each reading is clearly introduced, making often complex critical texts accessible for students at an introductory level and immediately applicable to the field of performance. The ideas explored within these readings are further clarified through innovative, carefully tested exercises and activities.
Performance Analysis includes texts by Ferdinand de Saussure, Charles S. Peirce, Roland Barthes, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Erving Goffman, Louis Althusser, Bertolt Brecht, Jean-François Lyotard, Luce Irigaray, Hélène Cixous, Judith Butler, Elin Diamond, Moe Meyer, Abdul JanMohamed, Eric Lott, bell hooks, Helen Gilbert, Michel Foucault, Patrice Pavis, Elizabeth Grosz, Elizabeth Wilson, Yi-Fu Tuan, Robert Weimann, Marvin Carlson, Wolfgang Iser, Laura Mulvey, Raymond Williams, Victor Turner, Michael Bristol, Mikhail Bakhtin and Clifford Geertz.
About the Author
Colin Counsell is based at The University of North London. Laurie Wolf is Assistant Professor for Theatre at The College of William and Mary, Virginia, USA.
