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Record Nr.

UNINA9910956310303321

Titolo

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

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

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

CounsellColin <1956->

WolfLaurie

Disciplina

791.014

Soggetti

Performing arts - Political aspects

Performing arts - Semiotics

Gender identity - Political aspects

Human body - Political aspects

Semiotics

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

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