Representation and identity from Versailles to the present : the performing subject / / Alan Sikes

• Autore: Sikes Alan
• Pubblicazione: Basingstoke, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2007.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (227 p.)
• Disciplina: 792.09
• Soggetto topico: Performing arts - History; Performing arts - Philosophy; Theater - History
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Representation and identity from Versailles to the present
• ISBN: 1-281-36320-0; 9786611363208; 0-230-60561-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910810134503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history.