Performance analysis : an introductory coursebook / / edited by Colin Counsell and Laurie Wolf

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910783013403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : , : Routledge, , 2001
• ISBN: 92-5-104437-6; 1-134-59265-5; 1-134-59266-3; 1-280-14097-6; 0-203-97700-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (265 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): CounsellColin <1956->; WolfLaurie
• Disciplina: 791.014; 791/.01/4
• Soggetti: Body, Human; Gender identity; Gender identity - Political aspects; Human body; Performing arts; Performing arts - Political aspects; Performing arts - Semiotics; Political aspects; Semiotics; Human body - Political aspects; Literature - General; Languages & Literatures
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-244) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Decoding the artefact; The politics of performance; Performing gender and sexual identity; Performing ethnicity; The performing body; The space of performance; Spectator and audience; At the borders of performance; Analysing ; performance; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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. 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