Theories of PerformanceTheories 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. |
Contents
THEORIES OF PERFORMANCE | 1 |
ACT | 18 |
Performing Texts | 42 |
Performing Culture | 115 |
Performing Technologies 233 | ix |
List of Boxed Features x | x |
READ MORE ABOUT | xi |
CAUGHT LOOKING | xii |
The Lion Is Real 127 | 127 |
The Performance Turn in | 132 |
Communitas on the Front Lines of Katrina 135 | 135 |
Roadside Shrines as Cultural Performances 138 | 138 |
Performing History 140 | 140 |
Performing Social Roles 147 | 147 |
This Is So Not You 159 | 159 |
Misrepresentations of Gender Race Occupation | 164 |
Introducing Theories of Performance | 1 |
Raising My Hand by Antler 23 | 23 |
Constituting Performance 29 | 29 |
One Fans Blogging Account of Astonishment 34 | 34 |
Framing Fiction as Reality and Reality as Fiction? 40 | 40 |
Nuit of the Living Dead 45 | 45 |
Audiences Are the Wild Card 51 | 51 |
Flock by Billy Collins 63 | 63 |
Turning the Pages of Antiquity on the Computer Screen 64 | 64 |
Embodying Iconic Mythologies 71 | 71 |
Performing Drama 85 | 85 |
As Drama Would Like It 88 | 88 |
Oedipus Retold 94 | 94 |
You Mean We Shouldnt Do That Theory Meets World I Know a Gal in New Orleans 96 81 | 96 |
A Representative Anecdote 103 | 103 |
This Was My Life as an Undergraduate 119 | 119 |
Homo LudensPlaying Man 125 | 125 |
Performing Identity 173 | 173 |
The Straight and Narrow of Nonverbal | 195 |
Performing Resistance | 199 |
Films that Make Strange 205 | 205 |
From Brecht to Boal 207 | 207 |
Boals Techniques in an ESL Classroom 211 | 211 |
Performance Keys 43 | 212 |
Public Events through an Aristotelian Lens 214 | 214 |
How Do Bodies Intervene? 221 | 221 |
de Certeaus Strategies and Tactics 228 | 228 |
Whos the Shakespeare in Your Canon? 76 | 240 |
Human and Machine 248 | 248 |
New and Improved? | 250 |
From Poke and See | 254 |
Rethinking Technologies 261 | 261 |
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About the Author 303 | 303 |
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