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Representation and Identity from Versailles to the Present : The Performing Subject / by A. Sikes.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sikes, Alan.
- Series:
- Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History, 2947-5775
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Geology.
- Theater--History.
- Theater.
- France--History.
- France.
- Historiography.
- History--Methodology.
- History.
- Performing arts.
- Theatre History.
- History of France.
- Historiography and Method.
- Theatre and Performance Arts.
- Local Subjects:
- Geology.
- Theatre History.
- History of France.
- Historiography and Method.
- Theatre and Performance Arts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (227 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2007.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611363208
- 9781281363206
- 1281363200
- 9780230605619
- 0230605613
- OCLC:
- 314798851
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