02919nam 2200685Ia 450 991081826560332120200520144314.01-134-72719-40-203-44426-41-134-72720-81-280-31843-010.4324/9780203444269 (CKB)1000000000250102(EBL)169806(OCoLC)436205682(SSID)ssj0000081847(PQKBManifestationID)11119163(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000081847(PQKBWorkID)10114802(PQKB)10354849(MiAaPQ)EBC169806(Au-PeEL)EBL169806(CaPaEBR)ebr10057282(CaONFJC)MIL31843(OCoLC)50513227(EXLCZ)99100000000025010219970620d1997 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrFrom acting to performance essays in modernism and postmodernism /Philip Auslander1st ed.London ;New York Routledge19971 online resource (184 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-415-15787-0 0-415-15786-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. [154]-162) and indexes.Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; From acting to performance; ~Holy theatre~ and catharsis; ~Just be your self~: logocentrism and difference in performance theory; Task and vision: Willem Dafoe in LSD; Postmodernism and performance; Presence and theatricality in the discourse of performance and the visual arts; Toward a concept of the political in postmodern theatre; Embodiment: the politics of postmodern dance; Postmodern body politics; Vito Acconci and the politics of the body in postmodern performance; Boal, Blau, Brecht: the body~Brought to you by Fem-Rage~: stand-up comedy and the politics of gender The surgical self: body alteration and identity; Notes; Bibliography; Name Index; Subject IndexThis first collection of essays by performance theorist and critic Philip Auslander surveys the changes in acting and performance during the crucial transition from the ecstatic theatre of the 1960's to the ironic postmodernism of the 1980'sPerformance artArts and societyHistory20th centuryPostmodernismModernism (Art)Performance art.Arts and societyHistoryPostmodernism.Modernism (Art)792.028Auslander Philip1956-1696067MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910818265603321From acting to performance4075748UNINA