Performance studies : an introduction / Richard Schechner ; media editor - Sarah Lucie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schechner, Richard, 1934- author.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater--Anthropological aspects.

Theater.

Rites and ceremonies.

Performing arts.

Physical Description:

xiv, 382 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 29 cm

Edition:

Fourth edition.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.

Summary:

"Richard Schechner's pioneering textbook is a lively, accessible overview of the full range of performance, with primary extracts, student activities, key biographies, and over 200 images of global performance. The publication of Performance Studies: An Introduction was a defining moment for the field. This fourth edition has been revised with two new chapters, up-to-date coverage of global and intercultural performances, and an in-depth exploration of the growing international importance of Performance Studies. Among the book's topics are the performing arts and popular entertainments, rituals, play and games, social media, the performances of the paleolithic period, and the performances of everyday life. Supporting examples and ideas are drawn from the social sciences, performing arts, poststructuralism, ritual theory, ethology, philosophy, and aesthetics. Performance Studies: An Introduction features the broadest and most in-depth analysis possible. Performance Studies: An Introduction is the definitive overview for undergraduates at all levels and beginning graduate students in performance studies, the performing arts, and cultural studies. This new edition is also supported by a fully updated companion website, offering a variety of interactive resources, teaching tools, and research links"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. What Is Performance?

Introducing this book, this field, and me

The boxes

Defining performance

The nine kinds of performances

Restored behavior

Caution, beware of generalizations

As/is performance

Make believe/make belief

Blurry boundaries

The seven functions of performance

As/is and the broad spectrum, again

Conclusions

2. What Is Performance Studies?

Confounding categories, blurring boundaries

Performance studies here, there, and everywhere

Antecedents to performance studies

The Victor Turner connection

Ethical and political questions

3. PERFORMANCE PROCESSES

The performing arts as a model

Performance process as a time-space sequence

Rules, proto-performance, and public performance

The performance quadrilogue

From montage to virtual reality

Experimental in one context, ordinary in another

4. The Broad Spectrum Of Performance

From nonmatrixed performing to complex acting

Realistic performing

Brechtian performing

Codified performing

Codified performing and the avantgarde

Ritualists, charisma, and presence

Puppets and masks

Hybrid performing

Performing in everyday life

Trials and executions as performance

Surgery as performance

Belief in the role one is playing

How realistic is realistic acting?

5. Ritual

Sacred and secular

Human and animal rituals

Trance

Trance and shamanism

Rites of passage, liminal, liminoid

Communitas and anti-structure

Ritual time and space

Transportations and transformations

Asemo's initiation

Social drama and ritual process

The pig-kill at Kurumugl

The efficacy-entertainment dyad

Origin of performance: if not ritual, what?

Changing rituals or inventing new ones

Using rituals in theatre, dance, and music

6. Play

The joker in the deck

What is play? What is playing?

Play and games

Seven ways to approach play

Types of playing

Play acts, play moods

Flow, or experiencing playing

Transitional objects, illusions, and culture

Animal play

The message, "this is play"

Bateson's Othello

Blood games, blood rites

Philosophies of play

The bias against play

Maya-lila

Deep play, dark play

7. Performing In The Paleolithic

What is the paleolithic?

Where is the art, and how old is it?

Is it art?

What was the cave art for?

Vulvas, "venuseshybrids, women artists

Performing in the caves

Shamanic vision-quests

Paleoperformance

Lascaux online and replicated onsite

8. Performatmty

A term hard to pin down

Austin's performative

Speech acts

From Survivor to EarthCam

Postmodernism

Simulation

Poststructuralism/deconstruction

The diffusion of poststructuralism

Problems with poststructuralism

Constructions of gender

Constructions of race

Performance art

What the Gravedigger knew about the performative

9. Social Media

Up, up, and away

When and what?

The network society

Performing you on social media

Second self or augmented self?

The importance of interests

From Goffman to web 2.0

Big business, fake news, war

POTUS @realDonaldTrump

Change by means of social media

Social media and the arts

10. Intercultural And Global Performances

Globalization's throughline

Intercultural performances

Vertical performances

Horizontal performances

Fusions and hybrids

Colonial mimicry and importing

Applied performances

Terrorist acts as applied global performances

Tourist performances: leisure globalization

Border wars

The Olympics: globalism's signature performance

Conclusions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Schechner, Richard, 1934-. Performance studies

ISBN:

9781138284555

1138284556

9781138284562

1138284564

OCLC:

1114279675

Publisher Number:

99986389335