Performance on behalf of the environment / / edited by Richard D. Besel and Jnan A. Blau

• Pubblicazione: Lanham, Maryland ; ; Plymouth, England : , : Lexington Books, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (290 p.)
• Disciplina: 700.46
• Soggetto topico: Environment (Art); Performance art; Environmental protection - Citizen participation
• Altri autori: BeselRichard D BlauJnan A
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: PERFORMANCE ON BEHALF OF THE ENVIRONMENT; Contents; 1 Introduction: Performance on Behalf of the Environment; PART I: PERFORMERS AND AUDIENCES; 2 It's a Party, Not a Protest: Environmental Community, Co-Incident Performance, and the San José Bike Party; 3 Performing Nonhuman Liberation: How the ALF and ELF Rupture the Political Imagination; 4 Eco-Comedy Performance: An Alchemy of Environmentalism and Humor; 5 Embodied Perspective by Incongruity: Environmental Critique in an Age of Everyday Performance; PART II: PLACES AND SPACES; 6 Reinhabiting the Land: From Vacant Lot to Garden Plot ; 7 "Progress Fell Upon Us": Ecotourism, Culture, and Performance in the Peruvian Amazon8 "On Finding Ways of Being": Kinesthetic Empathy in Dance and Ecology; 9 Indeterminate Hikes+: Hiking Through the Urban Wilderness; PART III: MATERIALS AND PROCESSES; 10 Indigenous Theatre in Global Times: Situated Knowledge and Ecological Communities in Salmon Is Everything and Burning Vision; 11 Staging Sustainable Shakespeare: "Greening" the Bard while Advancing Institutional Mission; 12 Puppet Planets and Spirit Soldiers: Staging Ecological Representations in Baby Universe and Forgotten World; Index ; About the Contributors
• Sommario/riassunto: Performance on Behalf of the Environment is a collection of essays from a diverse group of scholars representing the fields of art, communication studies, dance, environmental studies, performance studies, rhetoric, and theater. They explore critically the strengths, limitations, and processes of what can be termed environmental performances.
• Titolo autorizzato: Performance on behalf of the environment
• ISBN: 0-7391-7499-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910810458903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II