Is it performance art or pornography? Since the early 1960s, women in performance art have worked to liberate the female body from the confines of patriarchal delimitation. By the late 1980s and early 1990s, the clash of the rubrics porn and art manipulated by female artists worked to complicate the already embattled debates about the terms of that liberation. This is a study of the controversial and often shocking issues which surround the use of the female body in performance art. Schneider tackles topics which include the post porn modernist movement, censorship by the New Right,...

The Explicit Body in Performance interrogates the avant-garde precedents and theoretical terrain that combined to produce feminist performance art. Among the many artists discussed are:
* Carolle Schneemann
* Annie Sprinkle
* Karen Finley
* Robbie McCauley
* Ana Mendieta
* Ann Magnuson
* Sandra Bernhard
* Spiderwoman
Rebecca Schneider tackles topics ranging across the 'post-porn modernist movement', New Right censorship, commodity fetishism, perspectival vision, and primitivism. Employing diverse critical theories from Benjamin to Lacan to...

Re: Direction is a resource for practitioners and students on directing. It provides a collection of interviews, primary sources and essays on 20th century directing theories and practices around the world. Organized into four key areas of the subject, the book explores: theories of directing; the boundaries of the director's role; the limits of categorization; and the history of the theatre and performance art.

Re: Direction is a resource for practitioners and students on directing. It provides a collection of interviews, primary sources and essays on 20th century directing theories and practices around the world. Organized into four key areas of the subject, the book explores: theories of directing; the boundaries of the director's role; the limits of categorization; and the history of the theatre and performance art.