Performance Studies: Key Words, Concepts and Theories

ISBN-13: 9780230247307 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 340 str.

Bryan Reynolds

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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 Blaževi? 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.

O autorze

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.