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Performance Studies Bryan Reynolds

Performance Studies By Bryan Reynolds

Performance Studies by Bryan Reynolds


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The field of performance studies analyses the production and impact of on-stage performance, such as in a theatre or circus, and off-stage performance, such as cultural rituals and political protests.

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Performance Studies: Key Words, Concepts and Theories by Bryan Reynolds

The field of performance studies analyses the production and impact of on-stage performance, such as in a theatre or circus, and off-stage performance, such as cultural rituals and political protests. Performance Studies: Key Words, Concepts and Theories introduces students to 34 key topics seen as paramount to the future of performance studies in a series of short, engaging essays by an international team of distinguished scholars. Each essay contributes to the wide-ranging, adventurous and conscientious nature that makes performance studies such an innovative, valuable and exciting field.


About Bryan Reynolds

Bryan Reynolds is Chancellor's Professor of Drama at the University of California, Irvine, USA. He has held visiting professorships at Queen Mary, University of London, University of Amsterdam, Utrecht University, University of Cologne, University College Utrecht, Goethe University-Frankfurt am Main, and the University of California, San Diego. His books include Transversal Subjects: From Montaigne to Deleuze after Derrida, Transversal Enterprises in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries: Fugitive Explorations, Performing Transversally: Reimagining Shakespeare and the Critical Future, and Becoming Criminal: Transversal Performance and Cultural Dissidence in Early Modern England. He is also an internationally produced playwright, performer and director of theatre.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Ethical Drive; Bryan Reynolds.- 1. The 'F' Word, Feminism's Critical Futures; Elaine Aston.- 2. Public Sphere; Christopher Balme.- 3. Paramodern; Stephen Barker.- 4. Digital Culture; Sarah Bay-Cheng.- 5. Misperformance; Marin Blazevi? and Lada ?ale Feldman.- 6. Interval; Dylan Bolles and Peter Lichtenfels.- 7. Neuroaesthetics, Technoembodiment; Susan Broadhurst .- 8. Recursion, Iteration, Difference; Johan Callens .- 9. Living History, Re-enactment; Marvin Carlson.- 10. Performance Philosophy; Laura Cull.- 11. Translation, Cultural Ownership; Maria M. Delgado.- 12. The Intense Exterior; Rick Dolphijn.- 13. Cosmopolitanism; Milija Gluhovic.- 14. Cultural Diversity; Lynette Goddard.- 15. Citizenship, The Ethics of Inclusion; Nadine Holdsworth.- 16. Installation, Constellation; Lynette Hunter.- 17. Spatial Concepts; Silvija Jestrovic.- 18. Consensus, Dissensus; Adrian Kear.- 19. Counter Propaganda, Resistance; Suk-Young Kim.- 20. Ekstasis; Anthony Kubiak .- 21. Social Somatics; Petra Kuppers .- 22. Globalization, The Glocal, Third Space Theatre; Carl Lavery.- 23. Theatre of Immediacy, Transversal Poetics; Mark LeVine and Bryan Reynolds.- 24. Time in Theatre; Jerzy Limon.- 25. Magic in Theatre; Mihai Maniutiu.- 26. Empathetic Engagement; Bruce McConachie.- 27. Theories of Festival; Christina S. McMahon.- 28. Animality, Posthumanism; Jennifer Parker-Starbuck.- 29. Postdramatic Theatre; Patrice Pavis.- 30. Evo-Neuro-Theatre; Mark Pizzato.- 31. International/ism; Janelle Reinelt.- 32. Transculturation; Jon D. Rossini.- 33. Social Practice; Maria Shevtsova.- 34. City; Nicolas Whybrow .- Note on Contributors.- Index.

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GOR013675898
9780230247307
023024730X
Performance Studies: Key Words, Concepts and Theories by Bryan Reynolds
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Macmillan Education UK
2014-11-30
340
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