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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807051103321

Titolo

Opening acts : performance in/as communication and cultural studies / / Judith Hamera, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Thousand Oaks, : Sage Publications, c2006

ISBN

1-322-41886-1

1-4129-0558-3

1-4522-6705-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 280 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HameraJudith

Disciplina

302.2/01

Soggetti

Communication - Social aspects

Culture

Dialectic

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; Introduction: Opening Opening Acts; Part I: Engaging the Everyday; 1 - Becoming Other-Wise; 2 - Telling Twisted Tales; Part II: Animating Locations; Introduction; 3 - Bridging Haunted Places; 4 - Looking for Stonewall's Arm; Part III: Interrogating Histories; Introduction; 5 - Rethinking Elocution; 6 - Diverging Paths in Performance Genealogies; Part IV: Synthesizing Scholarship; Introduction; 7 - The Mechanical Bride of Yonville-l'Abbaye (Batteries Not Included); Part V: Embracing Performances; Introduction; 8 - Performing Theory/Embodied Writing; About the Editor

About the Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

'Opening Acts' offers new ways to analyze communication & culture through performance, offering cutting edge readings of everyday life, space, history, & the intersections of all three using a critical performance-based approach.