The Politics of Performance
Title | The Politics of Performance PDF eBook |
Author | Baz Kershaw |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 294 |
Release | 2002-09-11 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1134932723 |
Addresses fundamental questions about the social and political purposes of performance through an investigation of post-war alternative and community theatre. A detailed analysis of oppositional theatre as radical cultural practice.
Unmarked
Title | Unmarked PDF eBook |
Author | Peggy Phelan |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 224 |
Release | 2003-09-02 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 113491640X |
Unmarked is a controversial analysis of the fraught relation between political and representational visibility in contemporary culture. Written from and for the Left, Unmarked rethinks the claims of visibility politics through a feminist psychoanalytic examination of specific performance texts - including photography, painting, film, theatre and anti-abortion demonstrations.
Performance, Politics and Activism
Title | Performance, Politics and Activism PDF eBook |
Author | P. Lichtenfels |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 275 |
Release | 2013-04-09 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 113734105X |
Considering both making political performance and making performance politically, this collection explores engagements of political resistance, public practice and performance media, on various scales of production within structures of neoliberal and liberal government and power.
The Oxford Handbook of Politics and Performance
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Politics and Performance PDF eBook |
Author | Shirin M. Rai |
Publisher | Oxford Handbooks |
Total Pages | 749 |
Release | 2021 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0190863455 |
While political scientists and political theorists have long been interested in social and political performance, and theatre and performance researchers have often focused on the political dimensions of the live arts, the interdisciplinary nature of this labor has typically been assumed rather than rigorously explored. This volume brings together leading scholars in the fields of Politics and Performance--drawing on experts across the fields of literature, law,anthropology, sociology, psychology, and media and communiction, as well as politics and theatre and performance--to map out and deepen the evolving interdisciplinary engagement. Organized into seven thematic sections, the volume investigates the relationship between politics and performance to show thatcertain features of political transactions shared by performances are fundamental to both disciplines--and that to a large extent they also share a common communicational base and language.
Performance and Cultural Politics
Title | Performance and Cultural Politics PDF eBook |
Author | Elin Diamond |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 305 |
Release | 2015-04-15 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1136165886 |
Performance and Cultural Politics is a groundbreaking collection of essays which explore the historical and cultural territories of performance, written by the foremost scholars in the field. The essays, exploring performance art, theatre, music and dance, range from Oscar Wilde to Eric Clapton; from the Rose Theatre to U.S. Holocaust museums. The topic includes: * Sex Play: Stereotype, Pose and Dildo * Grave Performances: The Cultural Politics of Memory * Genealogies: Critical Performances * Identity Politics: Passing, Carnival and the Law In the concluding section, `Performer's Performance', performance artist Robbie McCauley offers the practitioner's perspective on performance studies. Interdisciplinary, thought-provoking and rich in new ideas, Performance and Cultural Politics is a landmark in the emerging field of performance studies.
The Grammar of Politics and Performance
Title | The Grammar of Politics and Performance PDF eBook |
Author | Shirin M Rai |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 312 |
Release | 2014-12-05 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1134751338 |
This volume brings together important work at the intersection of politics and performance studies. While the languages of theatre and performance have long been deployed by other disciplines, these are seldom deployed seriously and pursued systematically to discover the actual nature of the relationship between performance as a set of behavioural practices and the forms and the transactions of these other disciplines. This book investigates the structural similarities and features of politics and performance, which are referred to here as ‘grammar’, a concept which also emphasizes the common communicational base or language of these fields. In each of the chapters included in this collection, key processes of both politics and performance are identified and analyzed, demonstrating the critical and indivisible links between the fields. The book also underlines that neither politics nor performance can take place without actors who perform and spectators who receive, evaluate and react to these actions. At the heart of the project is the ambition to bring about a paradigm change, such that politics cannot be analyzed seriously without a sophisticated understanding of its performance. All the chapters here display a concrete set of events, practices, and contexts within which politics and performance are inseparable elements. This work will be of great interest to students and scholars in both International Relations and Performance Studies.
Performance and the Politics of Space
Title | Performance and the Politics of Space PDF eBook |
Author | Erika Fischer-Lichte |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 320 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0415509688 |
This collection asks what's at stake when a theatrical space is created and when a performance takes place: under what circumstances the topology of theatre becomes political. It visits a politics of inclusion and exclusion, of distributions and placements, and of spatial appropriation and utopian concepts in theatre history and contemporary performance.