The performance studies reader /
edited by Henry Bial and Sara Brady.
- Third edition.
- xvi, 420 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
P.B
Includes bibliographical references and index.
What is performance studies? Performance studies: the broad spectrum approach / The liminal-norm / Professing performances: disciplinary genealogies / Performance studies / Performance studies: interventions and radical research / Social performance studies: discipline vs. freedom / What is performance? Performances: belief in the part one is playing / Blurred genres: the refiguration of social thought / Excerpt from "Restoration of behavior" / What is performance? / Marina Abramović: witnessing shadows / Performance: the blunders of Orpheus / Ritual. Liminality and communitas / "Performance" and other analogies / "The blood that runs through the veins": the creation of identity and a client's experience of Cuban-American Santería Dilogún divination / Saint Orlan: ritual as violent spectacle and cultural criticism / Performative commemoratives, the personal, and the public: spontaneous shrines, emergent ritual / Reenactment and relative pain / Play. The nature and significance of play as a cultural phenomenon / A theory of play and fantasy / The ambiguity of play: rhetorics of fate / Just doing / An evolutionary perspective on play, performance, and ritual / The soldier cycle: Harun Farocki's Images of war (at a distance) / Henry Bial with Sara Brady -- Richard Schechner -- Jon McKenzie -- Shannon Jackson -- Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett -- Dwight Conquergood -- Faye C. Fei and William H. Sun -- Erving Goffman -- Clifford Geertz -- Richard Schechner -- Marvin Carlson -- Peggy Phelan -- Joseph Roach -- Victor Turner -- Catherine Bell -- Michael Atwood Mason -- Alyda Faber -- Jack Santino -- Rebecca Schneider -- Johan Huizinga -- Gregory Bateson -- Brian Sutton-Smith -- Allan Kaprow -- Bruce McConachie -- Sara Brady. Introduction / Performativity. How to do things with words: lecture II / Excerpt from "Signature event context" / Performative acts and gender constitution: an essay in phenomenology and feminist theory / Introduction to Performativity and performance / Theater and anthropology, theatricality and culture / Utopian performatives / Performing. A dialogue about acting / The actor's technique / A dream of passion / Excerpt from The rainbow of desire / Reconsidering Stanislavsky: feeling, feminism, and the actor / Addenda, phenomenology, embodiment: cyborgs and disability performance / Performance processes. First attempts at a stylized theatre / The oral artist: training and preparation / The deep order called turbulence: the three faces of dramaturgy / The archaeology of performance / Excerpt from Postdramatic theatre / Excerpt from The emancipated spectator / From page to stage: the making of Sweet tea / Global and intercultural performances. Performing ethnography / Of mimicry and man / Translating performance / Interweaving cultures in performance: different states of being in-between / Hemispheric America in deep time / Orature and cyberture / Performance studies 3.0 / J.L. Austin -- Jacques Derrida -- Judith Butler -- Andrew Parker and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick -- Johannes Fabian -- Jill Dolan -- Bertolt Brecht -- Jerzy Grotowski -- Lee Strasberg -- Augusto Boal -- Rhonda Blair -- Petra Kuppers -- Vsevolod Meyerhold -- Isidore Okpewho -- Eugenio Barba -- Mary Zimmerman -- Hans-Thies Lehmann -- Jacques Rancière -- E. Patrick Johnson -- Victor Turner with Edie Turner -- Homi K. Bhabha -- Diana Taylor -- Erika Fischer-Lichte -- Jill Lane -- Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong'O -- Henry Bial.
Since its first publication in 2004, The Performance Studies Reader has become the leading anthology of key writings on performance studies. Now in its third edition, it continues to offer an unparalleled selection of work by the foremost scholars in this continually evolving field. These critical and theoretical contributions are joined in this edition by 16 new chapters, bringing the collection up to date with current discourse and ideas, and cross referencing exactly with Richard Schechner's Performance Studies: An Introduction. The two volumes combine perfectly to offer a unique and complete teaching resource. The Performance Studies Reader is also widely used by students and scholars around the world as a stand-alone text, offering a stimulating introduction to the crucial debates of performance studies. Each essay now includes new contextual headnotes from the editors, to introduce students to the writer and their impact on the field. Newly added to this edition are contributions from: Augusto Boal, Jill Dolan, Faye C. Fei and William H. Sun, Erika Fischer-Lichte, E. Patrick Johnson, Petra Kuppers, Hans-Thies Lehmann, Bruce McConachie, Jacques Ranciere, Joseph Roach, Rebecca Schneider, and Ngugi wa Thiong'o. The Reader provides an overview of the full range of performance theory for undergraduates at all levels, and beginning graduate students in performance studies, theatre, performing arts, and cultural studies.