Elizabeth Bell

Theories of Performance

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Produktbeschreibung

Theories of Performance invites students to explore the possibilities of performance for creating, knowing, and staking claims to the world. Each chapter surveys, explains, and illustrates classic, modern, and postmodern theories that answer the questions, "What is performance?" "Why do people perform?" and "How does performance constitute our social and political worlds?" The chapters feature performance as the entry point for understanding texts, drama, culture, social roles, identity, resistance, and technologies. Written specifically for the undergraduate classroom, performance theories are explained in ways accessible to students, relevant to their lives, and richly illustrated with examples that encourage students to think more, to think harder, and to think differently about performances around them.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sage Publications, Inc
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: B26378P
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Februar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 608g
• ISBN-13: 9781412926386
• ISBN-10: 1412926386
• Artikelnr.: 23067934

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Bell has been writing stories since the second grade. At the age of fourteen, she chose a pen name and vowed to become a published author. That same year, she began the Lazare Family Saga. It took her a couple decades to get it right. New generations kept demanding attention, and the saga became four epic historical novels. After earning her MFA in Creative Writing at George Mason University, Elizabeth realized she would have to return her two hundred library books. Instead, she cleverly found a job in the university library. She works there to this day. Elizabeth was a Finalist for the James Jones First Novel Fellowship, a Finalist in the Foreword Indies Book of the Year Awards, and won Second Place in the Maggie Awards for Excellence. Elizabeth loves chatting with fellow readers, writers, and history buffs. Visit her at elizabethbellauthor.com

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Introducing Theories of Performance Theory in Perspective: Can You See the Forest for the Trees? What Is Theory? Theory Questions: What? Why? How? Kinds of Theory Questions Assumptions about How Language Operates in Theory Two Models of Communication Performance as a Communicative Form Assumptions about Performance: Mimesis, Poiesis, and Kinesis Performance as a Key Term Definitions of Performance Claims about Performance: Constitutive, Epistemic, and Critical Rethinking Theory and Performance Chapter 2: Constituting Performance Theory in Perspective: What Makes a Performance? The "Nature" of Performance Constituting Performance through Framing Constituting the Performance Frame through Keying Constituting Performance through the Performer Constituting Performance through Audience Rethinking Performance Chapter 3: Performing Texts Theory in Perspective: What Is a Text? Humans and Symbol Use: Text Me Later. OK? From Orality to the Page to the Screen Interpreting the World as "Text" When Text Meets Performance Drama, Script, Theater, and Performance Assumptions about Texts: Canon, Textuality, and Materiality Interpreting Texts Text Versus Performance Rethinking Texts Chapter 4: Performing Drama Theory in Perspective: How Is the World a Stage? The Drama of a Roller Coaster Ride Reigning Metaphor: Life as Drama What Is Aristotelian Drama? Audience and Dramatic Form Kenneth Burke
s Dramatism: Life Is Drama Performing Tragic and Comic Attitudes From Dramatism to Social Drama Analyzing Social Dramas Social Drama: Raw Material for Performances Rethinking Drama Chapter 5: Performing Culture Theory in Perspective: How Do Cultures Perform? What Is Culture? Approaches to Studying Culture From Studying "Man" to Theorizing Movement and Play Rites of Passage: Moving through Culture Homo Ludens/Playing Man Characteristics of Ritual Rituals Are Performed From Great Tradition to Cultural Performance The "Performance Turn" in Study of Culture Performing History Performing Others Rethinking Culture Chapter 6: Performing Social Roles Theory in Perspective: Who Am I? Don
t Play Games with Me! "What
s Wrong?" "What
s Right?" Teams: Performing Together Regions: Performing Spaces When Good Performances Go Bad Impression Management Misrepresentation Role Distance and Discrepant Roles Stigmas and "Spoiled" Identities Passing Genders and Races Performing Disability Rethinking Social Roles Chapter 7: Performing Identity Theory in Perspective: How Am I a Subject? Do Social Roles Assume a Foundational Self? Performativity
s Rejections and Projects Performativity Project 1: Identity Constitution as Material and Historical Performativity Project 2: A Strategy for Identity Critique From Philosophy to Speech Act to Laws Performativity Project 3: A Political Practice of Identity Rethinking Identity Chapter 8: Performing Resistance Chapter 8: Performing Resistance Theory in Perspective: How Can Performance Change the World? From Aristotle to Postmodernism Bertolt Brecht on Performing Resistance Alienation Effects of Epic Theater Brechtian Techniques as Critical Lenses From Brecht to Boal Why Do People Take to the Streets? Models of Protest Public Events through an Aristotelian Lens Carnival and Protest From Traditional to Radical Dramaturgy Analyzing Protest Events as Performances The Body Politic: How Do Bodies Intervene? Resistance in Everyday Life: Foucault
s Productive Power Resistance in Everyday Life: de Certeaüs Strategies and Tactics Rethinking Resistance Chapter 9: Performing Technologies Chapter 9: Performing Technology Theory in Perspective: What Exists? Caveat Emptor: Buyer Beware of Old and New What Is Technology? Extending Human Bodies and Powers From Deus ex Machina to Flash Mobs: Extending, Enabling, and Accessing Performance Performance Presence: An Ontology Six Types of Theatrical Presence Losing the Aura of Presence Simulacra: There Is No Original Cyborg Bodies: Human and Machine Performing Cyborgs Musical Performance: Is it Live or Is It Memorex? Interactivity: From "Poke and See," Cyberpoetry, to Computer Art Environments Reach Out and Perform Someone: Five Kinds of Mediated Presence Rethinking Technologies References