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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784774703321

Autore

Sikes Alan

Titolo

Representation and identity from Versailles to the present [[electronic resource] ] : the performing subject / / Alan Sikes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basingstoke, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

ISBN

1-281-36320-0

9786611363208

0-230-60561-3

Edizione

[1st ed. 2007.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (227 p.)

Collana

Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history

Disciplina

792.09

Soggetti

Performing arts - History

Performing arts - Philosophy

Theater - History

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Credits; Acknowledgments; 1 The Performing Subject: Identity and Representation in the Modern and the Postmodern Eras; 2 Dancing with the Sun King: The Performance of Privilege in the Reign of Louis XIV; 3 "Snip Snip Here, Snip Snip There, and a Couple of Tra-La-La's": The Rise and Fall of the Castrato Singer; 4 Liberty, Equality, Festivity: Citizen Action and the Libratory Legacy of the French Revolution; 5 Smoke and Mirrors: The Hysterical Woman from Zola to Freud

6 Communism: Coming to a Screen Near You! Benjamin, Adorno, and the Politics of MediatizationConclusion: Queer Horizons-Postmodern Performativity and Political Action; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Sikes traces the shifting role of performance in the fashioning of subjectivity from the Modern to the Postmodern eras. The book joins history and historiography and is grounded in a body of research about varied performance subjects from court dance, ballet, opera, festivals, celebrations, propaganda films, Hollywood movies to reality TV.