Marvin Carlson

Performance: A Critical Introduction

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Since its first publication in 1996, Marvin Carlson's Performance: A critical introduction has remained the definitive guide to understanding performance as a theatrical activity. This new edition addresses performing race and ethnicity; performance concerned with age and disability; and participatory and immersive theatre.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• 3 ed
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 159mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 472g
• ISBN-13: 9781138281684
• ISBN-10: 1138281689
• Artikelnr.: 48900333

Autorenporträt

Marvin Carlson is Sidney E. Cohn Professor of Theatre, Comparative Literature and Middle Eastern Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, USA. Among his books are Theories of the Theatre and The Haunted Stage.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: what is performance?
Chapter 1 The performance of culture: anthropological and ethnographic
approaches
Chapter 2 Performance in society: sociological and psychological approaches
Chapter 3 The performance of language: linguistic approaches
Chapter 4 Performance in its historical context
Chapter 5 Performance art
Chapter 6 Performance and the postmodern
Chapter 7 Performance and identity
Chapter 8 Cultural performance
Conclusion: what is performance?
Glossary
Bibliography