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:

xxiv, 394 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.

Summary:

The first edition of The Performance Studies Reader established itself as the leading anthology of key writings on the continually evolving field of performance studies. Bringing together contributions from a host of renowned artists and scholars, the Reader provided a lively and diverse collection of ideas suitable for undergraduates and beginning graduate students in performance studies, theater, cultural studies and related disciplines. This updated and significantly enlarged Second Edition offers eight new chapters - for a total of 42 - on such important topics as devising theater, public memorial observances, and neurocognitive approaches to performance, as well as expanded introductory essays and internal cross-references. Widely used by students and scholars around the world as a stand-alone text, The Performance Studies Reader, Second Edition is also synchronized to the second edition of Richard Schechner's Performance Studies: An Introduction. Used together, the two volumes continue to provide a complete and integrated 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

6 Performance studies in an age of terror / John Bell 56

Part II What is performance? 59

7 Performances: belief in the part one is playing / Erving Goffman 61

8 Blurred genres: the refiguration of social thought / Clifford Geertz 66

9 What is performance? / Marvin Carlson 70

10 Life the movie / Neal Gabler 76

11 Marina Abramovic: witnessing shadows / Peggy Phelan 78

Part III Ritual 87

12 Liminality and communitas / Victor Turner 89

13 "Performance" and other analogies / Catherine Bell 98

14 "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 107

15 Saint Orlan: ritual as violent spectacle and cultural criticism / Alyda Faber 118

16 Performative commemoratives, the personal, and the public: spontaneous shrines, emergent ritual / Jack Santino 125

Part IV Play 135

17 The nature and significance of play as a cultural phenomenon / Johan Huizinga 137

18 A theory of play and fantasy / Gregory Bateson 141

19 The ambiguity of play: rhetorics of fate / Brian Sutton-Smith 152

20 Just doing / Allan Kaprow 159

21 Falling apart to stay together: deep play in the Grand Marais Mardi Gras / Barry Jean Ancelet 164

Part V Performativity 175

22 How to do things with-words: lecture II / J.L. Austin 177

23 Excerpt from "Signature Event Context" / Jacques Derrida 184

24 Performative acts and gender constitution: an essay in phenomenonology and feminist theory / Judith Butler 187

26 Theater and anthropology, theatricality and culture / Johannes Fabian 208

Part VI Performing 217

27 A dialogue about acting / Bertolt Brecht 219

28 The actor's technique / Jerzy Grotowski 223

29 A dream of passion / Lee Strasberg 229

30 Presenting and re-presenting the self: from not-acting to acting in African performance / Frances Harding 231

31 Reconsidering Stanislavsky: feeling, feminism, and the actor / Rhonda Blair 249

Part VII Performance processes 263

32 First attempts at a stylized theatre / Vsevolod Meyerhold 265

33 The oral artist: training and preparation / Isidore Okpewho 274

34 The performance text / Marco de Marinis 280

35 The deep order called turbulence: the three faces of dramaturgy / Eugenio Barba 300

36 The archaeology of performance / Mary Zimmerman 310

Part VIII Global and intercultural performances 321

37 Performing ethnography / Victor Turner, Edie Turner 323

38 Of mimicry and man / Homi K. Bhabha 337

39 Culturas-in-extremis: performing against the cultural backdrop of the mainstream bizarre / Guillermo Gomez-Pena 345

40 Reverend Billy: preaching, protest, and post-industrial flanerie / Jill Lane 357

41 Performance studies: interventions and radical research / Dwight Conquergood 369

42 Translating performance / Diana Taylor 381.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0415772745

9780415772747

0415772753

9780415772754

OCLC:

76967330