Russian Performances : Word, Object, Action / edited by Julie A. Buckler, Julie A. Cassiday, and Boris Wolfson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wolfson, Boris, editor.

Cassiday, Julie A., editor.

Buckler, Julie A., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Performing arts--Russia.

Performing arts.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (357 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2018]

Summary:

Russian Performances is the first volume to bring the field of Russian Studies, broadly conceived, into dialog with the field of Performance Studies. The volume has a guiding vision: to demonstrate the relevance of Performance Studies to the study of Russia, as well as the unique genealogy of Performance Studies in the Russian context, that is, to show both theory and praxis. The contributions to Russian Performances foster larger intellectual communities by showcasing new work in Russian Studies from the disciplines of anthropology, art history, dance studies, film studies, cultural and social history, literary studies, musicology, political science, theater studies, and sociology. The book contains 27 brief essays, each of which analyzes and theorizes a particular instance of performance in Russian culture.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface

Foreword: Performing Russia / W.B. Worthen

Introduction: Thinking through Performance in Modern Russian Culture / Julie A. Buckler, Julie A. Cassiday, and Boris Wolfson

Predstavlenie: Representation and Cultural Imagination

Aleksei Venetsianov and the Theatricality of Russian Painting / Molly Brunson

Performing Obligation / John Randolph

The Album as Performance: Notes on the Limits of the Visible / Oksana Sarkisova and Olga Shevchenko

Performative Objects: How Things Do Things without Words / Serguei Alex. Oushakine

Performing Russian Success? The 1770 Exhibition at the Imperial Academy of Arts / Rosalind P. Blakesley

The Silver Wreath: Jubilees in Russian Public Life, 1880-1910s / Anna Muza

Pencil Marks on a Field: Form and Support in Late Soviet Participatory Performance by Collective Actions / Yelena Kalinsky

Dancing the National Idea: Reception and Appropriation of Lezginka in Russia / Tatiana Smorodinska

Neo-Judaic Performance and "Russian" Identity in the Jewish Autonomous Region / S.I. Salamensky

Vystuplenie: Performers and Interventions

Live Poetry: Doubled Performances on OpenSpace / Stephanie Sandler

From Text to Act: Tchaikovsky's Songs as Embodied Emotion / Philip Ross Bullock

Playing the Public: Karamzin, Rostopchin, and S. Glinka, 1802-1808 / Bella Grigoryan

Borders Unpatrolled: Imaginary Geographies and the Spaces of Performance in Russian Viral Video / Eliot Borenstein

Vystuplenie i nakazanie: Performing Political Protest in Putin's Russia (Voina, Pussy Riot, Pavlensky) / Lilya Kaganovsky

Architectonic Supersagas: Tatlin Stages Khlebnikov's Zangezi / Michael Kunichika

Arousing Patriotism: Anna Chapman and the Curious Case of the Sexy Spy / Julie Hemment.

The Performative According to Prigov / Mark Lipovetsky and Ilya Kukulin

Performing Commodities: The Fabergé Imperial Eggs / Julie A. Buckler

Ispolnenie: Action and Agency

How Brezhnev Era Animated Films Queered Stagnation / Anna Fishzon

Voice as a Performative Phenomenon in Early Soviet Sound Films / Oksana Bulgakowa

The Case of The Dying Swan: The Performative Evolution of a Dance / Daria Khitrova

The Actor's Task as a Philosophical Quest in the Russian 1920s: Two Case Studies / Caryl Emerson

Text and Antitext: Dividing the Labors of Performance / Alaina Lemon

The Object as Prosthesis and Performer in Russian New Drama / Susanna Weygandt

Performing Family Unity: Holiday Celebrations in the Labor Camp Correspondence of Arsenii Formakov / Emily D. Johnson

The Performative Stakes of the Tchaikovsky Music Competition / Boris Wolfson

Glamazons en travesti: Drag Queens in Putin's Russia / Julie A. Cassiday

References

List of Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780299318338

0299318338

OCLC:

1061148478