Theories of performance / Elizabeth Bell.

9781412926379 (cloth)
1412926378 (cloth)
9781412926386 (pbk.)
1412926386 (pbk.)

Los Angeles : Sage Publications, ©2008.

English

xv, 303 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

BF481 .B375 2008

302/.1

"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, this book explains performance theories in ways that are accessible to students and relevant to their lives, and it richly illustrates theories with examples that encourage students to think more, to think harder, and to think differently about performances around them. The text incorporates a variety of pedagogical strategies to encourage students to demonstrate, apply, extend, and share their discoveries about theory. Each chapter provides student-centered exercises, activities, and prompts."--Jacket.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-288) and index.

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