The performance studies reader / edited by Henry Bial.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bial, Henry, 1970-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater--Anthropological aspects.

Theater.

Performing arts.

Physical Description:

xix, 329 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.

Summary:

The emergent field of performance studies has for some time required a major collection of key writings. The Performance Studies Reader successfully fulfils this need and provides a magnificent selection of the most engaging, illuminating work ever written on performance.

Designed primarily as a companion volume to the definitive 2002 textbook Performance Studies: An Introduction (by Richard Schechner), this exciting new anthology expands upon the key issues and ideas introduced in the textbook, offering further comment and analysis and allowing for a broader experience of study. The material is helpfully organized into eight sections, each corresponding to the eight sections of the textbook, and is fully cross-referenced, enabling quick and easy navigation.

Featuring contributions from major scholars and artists such as Richard Schechner, Eugenio Barba, Marvin Carlson, Judith Butler, Jon McKenzie, Homi K. Bhabha, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Jerzy Grotowski, this important new collection offers a wide-ranging introduction to the main areas of study. As a stand-alone text, The Performance Studies Reader offers a long-awaited comprehensive anthology of key writings on performance and its related disciplines. Together with its companion volume, this unique resource represents the first complete package for teaching and learning performance studies.

Contents:

Part I What is performance studies? 5

1 Performance studies: the broad spectrum approach / Richard Schechner 7

2 Disciplines of the text: sites of performance / W.B. Worthen 10

3 The liminal-norm / Jon McKenzie 26

4 Professing performances: disciplinary genealogies / Shannon Jackson 32

5 Performance studies / Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett 43

Part II What is performance? 57

6 Performances: belief in the part one is playing / Erving Goffman 59

7 Blurred genres: the refiguration of social thought / Clifford Geertz 64

8 What is performance? / Marvin Carlson 68

9 Life the movie / Neal Gabler 74

Part III Ritual 77

10 Liminality and communitas / Victor Turner 79

11 "Performance" and other analogies / Catherine Bell 88

12 "The blood that runs through the veins": the creation of identity and a client's experience of Cuban-American santeria dilogun divination / Michael Atwood Mason 97

13 Saint Orlan: ritual as violent spectacle and cultural criticism / Alyda Faber 108

Part IV Play 115

14 The nature and significance of play as a cultural phenomenon / Johan Huizinga 117

15 A theory of play and fantasy / Gregory Bateson 121

16 The ambiguity of play: rhetorics of fate / Brian Sutton-Smith 132

17 Just doing / Allan Kaprow 139

Part V Performativity 145

18 How to do things with words: lecture II / J.L. Austin 147

19 Performative acts and gender constitution: an essay in phenomenology and feminist theory / Judith Butler 154

20 Introduction to Performativity and Performance / Andrew Parker, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 167

21 Theater and anthropology, theatricality and culture / Johannes Fabian 175

Part VI Performing 183

22 A dialogue about acting / Bertolt Brecht 185

23 The actor's technique / Jerzy Grotowski 189

24 A dream of passion / Lee Strasberg 195

25 Presenting and re-presenting the self: from not-acting to acting in African performance / Frances Harding 197

Part VII Performance processes 215

26 First attempts at a stylized theatre / Vsevolod Meyerhold 217

27 The oral artist: training and preparation / Isidore Okpewho 226

28 The performance text / Marco de Marinis 232

29 The deep order called turbulence: the three faces of dramaturgy / Eugenio Barba 252

Part VIII Global and intercultural performance 263

30 Performing ethnography / Victor Turner, Edie Turner 265

31 Of mimicry and man / Homi K. Bhabha 279

32 Culturas-in-extremis: performing against the cultural backdrop of the mainstream bizarre / Guillermo Gomez-Pena 287

33 Reverend Billy: preaching, protest and post-industrial flanerie / Jill Lane 299

34 Performance studies: interventions and radical research / Dwight Conquergood 311.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0415302412

0415302404

OCLC:

51848407