Performance and Cultural Politics

ISBN-13: 9780415127677 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 294 str.

Elin Diamond;Elin Diamond

Opis

This is a collection of essays which explore the historical and cultural territories of performance, written by scholars in the field. The essays, exploring performance art, theatre, music and dance, range from Oscar Wilde to Eric Clapton; from the Rose Theatre to U.S. Holocaust museums. The topic includes: sex play - stereotype, pose and dildo; grave performances - the cultural politics of memory; genealogies - critical performances; and identity politics - passing, carnival and the law.

Performance and Cultural Politics is a groundbreaking collection which investigates the historical and cultural territories of performance art, theatre, music and dance. The essays are by some of the foremost scholars in the field, who explore topics ranging fromm Oscar Wilde to Eric Clapton; from the Rose Theatre to US Holocaust Museums. This exciting and wide-ranging volume also includes an essay by performance artist Robbie McCauley, offering a practitioner's perspective.

Spis treści

1: Introduction; I: Re-Sexing Culture; 2: Acting out Orientalism; 3: Posing the Question; 4: Doing it Anyway; II: Grave Performances; 5: Playing Dead in Stone, or, When is a Rose not a Rose? 1; 6: Spectacles of Suffering; 7: Festivities and Jubilations on the Graves of the Dead; III: Moving/Seeing; 8: Pygmalion's No-Body and The Body of Dance; 9: After US The Savage Goddess; 10: Flat-Out Vision; 11: Liveness; IV: Identity Politics; 12: Kinship, Intelligence, and Memory As Improvisation; 13: Forms of Appearance of Value; V: Performer/Performance; 14: Thoughts On My Career, The Other Weapon, and Other Projects

O autorze

Elin Diamond