Play, Performance, and Identity
Title | Play, Performance, and Identity PDF eBook |
Author | Matt Omasta |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 193 |
Release | 2015-02-11 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1317703243 |
Play helps define who we are as human beings. However, many of the leisurely/ludic activities people participate in are created and governed by corporate entities with social, political, and business agendas. As such, it is critical that scholars understand and explicate the ideological underpinnings of played-through experiences and how they affect the player/performers who engage in them. This book explores how people play and why their play matters, with a particular interest in how ludic experiences are often constructed and controlled by the interests of institutions, including corporations, non-profit organizations, government agencies, religious organizations, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Each chapter explores diverse sites of play. From theme parks to comic conventions to massively-multiplayer online games, they probe what roles the designers of these experiences construct for players, and how such play might affect participants' identities and ideologies. Scholars of performance studies, leisure studies, media studies and sociology will find this book an essential reference when studying facets of play.
Performance, Identity, and Immigration Law
Title | Performance, Identity, and Immigration Law PDF eBook |
Author | G. Guterman |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 236 |
Release | 2014-07-10 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1137411007 |
How has contemporary American theatre presented so-called undocumented immigrants? Placing theatre artists and their work within a context of on-going debate, Guterman shows how theatre fills an essential role in a critical conversation by exploring the powerful ways in which legal labels affect and change us.
Performing Identity and Gender in Literature, Theatre and the Visual Arts
Title | Performing Identity and Gender in Literature, Theatre and the Visual Arts PDF eBook |
Author | Panayiota Chrysochou |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | 135 |
Release | 2017-03-07 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1443878588 |
This volume presents a compelling mélange of chapters focusing on the myriad ways in which performance and gender are inextricably bound to identity. It shows how gender, performance and identity play themselves out in various ways, contexts and genres, in order to illumine the very instability and fluidity of identity as a static category. As such, it is a must-read for anyone interested in gender studies, identity politics and literature in general.
Identity Play; or Who You Are If You Think You Are
Title | Identity Play; or Who You Are If You Think You Are PDF eBook |
Author | Jon Jory |
Publisher | Stage Partners |
Total Pages | 36 |
Release | 2018-01-01 |
Genre | Drama |
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A series of comedic and dramatic vignettes exploring who we are and who we want to be. With endless choices and expectations, do our actions define us or do our intentions? What about our words? What about the way we dress, the friends we keep, or how we act online? Is who we think we are different than how other people see us? In such a complex, face-paced world, it's vital to slow-down, reflect...and laugh. Drama (with comedy) One-act. 35-40 minutes 10-40 actors, gender flexible
Performance, Identity, and the Neo-Political Subject
Title | Performance, Identity, and the Neo-Political Subject PDF eBook |
Author | Fintan Walsh |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 288 |
Release | 2013-04-17 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1136154868 |
This book stages a timely discussion about the centrality of identity politics to theatre and performance studies. It acknowledges the important close relationship between the discourses and practices historically while maintaining that theatre and performance can enlighten ways of being with others that are not limited by conventional identitarian languages. The essays engage contemporary theatre and performance practices that pose challenging questions about identity, as well as subjectivity, relationality, and the politics of aesthetics, responding to neo-liberal constructions and exploitations of identity by seeking to discern, describe, or imagine a new political subject. Chapters by leading international scholars look to visual arts practice, digital culture, music, public events, experimental theatre, and performance to investigate questions about representation, metaphysics, and politics. The collections seeks to foreground shared, universalist connections that unite rather than divide, visiting metaphysical questions of being and becoming, and the possibilities of producing alternate realities and relationalities. The book asks what is at stake in thinking about a subject, a time, a place, and a performing arts practice that would come ‘after’ identity, and explores how theatre and performance pose and interrogate these questions.
Transnational Performance, Identity and Mobility in Asia
Title | Transnational Performance, Identity and Mobility in Asia PDF eBook |
Author | Iris H. Tuan |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 164 |
Release | 2018-04-27 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9811071071 |
This pivot considers the history, methodology and practice of Asian theatre and investigates the role of Asian theatre and film in contemporary transnational Asian identities. It critically reviews the topics of transnationalism and intercultural political difference, arguing that the concept of Transnational Asian theatre or 'TransAsia' can promote cultural diversity and social transformation. The book notably offers an understanding of theatre as a cultural laboratory, a repository for diverse histories and a forum for intercultural dialogue, allowing for a better understanding of sociocultural patterns surrounding transnational Asian identity and mobility.
Culture, Performance and Identity. Paths of Communication in Kenya
Title | Culture, Performance and Identity. Paths of Communication in Kenya PDF eBook |
Author | Kimani Njogu |
Publisher | African Books Collective |
Total Pages | 178 |
Release | 2008-03-15 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 996602803X |
This book brings together essays which cover a number of key areas: Gender, Disability, Media, Sports, Literature, Religion, Land and Youth, Music. Through an examination of the situation in Kenya, the essays opens new ways of understanding forms of local