Theories of performance / Elizabeth Bell.
2008
BF481 .B375 2008 (Mapit)
On loan from General Collection, due 29. Sep 2024
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Title
Theories of performance / Elizabeth Bell.
Author
Bell, Elizabeth, 1953-
ISBN
9781412926379 (cloth)
1412926378 (cloth)
9781412926386 (pbk.)
1412926386 (pbk.)
1412926378 (cloth)
9781412926386 (pbk.)
1412926386 (pbk.)
Publication Details
Los Angeles : Sage Publications, ©2008.
Language
English
Description
xv, 303 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Call Number
BF481 .B375 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification
302/.1
Summary
"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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-288) and index.
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Table of Contents
Ch. 1. Introducing Theories of Performance
Ch. 2. Constituting Performance
Ch. 3. Performing Texts
Ch. 4. Performing Drama
Ch. 5. Performing Culture
Ch. 6. Performing Social Roles
Ch. 7. Performing Identity
Ch. 8. Performing Resistance / Elizabeth Bell and Stacy Holman Jones
Ch. 9. Performing Technologies / Elizabeth Bell and Marcyrose Chvasta.
Ch. 2. Constituting Performance
Ch. 3. Performing Texts
Ch. 4. Performing Drama
Ch. 5. Performing Culture
Ch. 6. Performing Social Roles
Ch. 7. Performing Identity
Ch. 8. Performing Resistance / Elizabeth Bell and Stacy Holman Jones
Ch. 9. Performing Technologies / Elizabeth Bell and Marcyrose Chvasta.