Performance and culture [[electronic resource] ] : narrative, image and enactment in India / / by Archana Verma

• Autore: Verma Archana
• Pubblicazione: Newcastle upon Tyne, : Cambridge Scholars, 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (164 p.)
• Disciplina: 792.0954
• Soggetto topico: Dance - India; Performing arts - India - History
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [135]-143) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Visual Language of the Divine Dance -- Text and Image of Shiva's Dance Sculptures in Indian Temples -- 2. Satirizing the Ideal -- Chaturbhani (A Collection of Four Sanskrit Burlesque Plays from Ancient India) -- 3. Eroticism in Indian Classical Dance -- Odissi -- 4. Satirizing the Sacred Narrative -- Dance-Drama from Kerala -- 5. Performance in the Folk Expressions of the Women of Mithila -- 6. Imageries of Power -- An Exegesis of Folk Performance Narratives -- 7. Cinematic Narration, Women Dancers and Cultural Memory of Ancient India -- Two Hindi Films Chitralekha (1964) and Amrapali (1966).
• Sommario/riassunto: This book deals with various aspects of performance in India; especially that related to dance and dance-drama. Rather than being a description of the various dance forms of India, it attempts to discuss various social equations and cultural ideas that a performance attempts to portray. In this sense, a performance is a narrative. At the same time, performances also deal with well-known narratives from the religious traditions of India, often redefining and recounting them in the process of p...
• Titolo autorizzato: Performance and culture
• ISBN: 1-283-14274-0; 9786613142740; 1-4438-2832-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910788436803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II