Opening Acts: Performance In/as Communication and Cultural StudiesSAGE, 2006 - 280 páginas Opening Acts: Performance in/as Communication and Cultural Criticism offers new, rigorous ways to analyze communication and culture through performance. Editor Judith Hamera, along with a distinguished list of contributors, provides students with cutting-edge readings of everyday life, space, history, and intersections of all three, using a critical performance-based approach. This text makes three significant contributions to the field - it familiarizes readers with the core elements and commitments of performance-based analysis, links performance-based analysis to theoretical and analytical perspectives in communication and cultural studies, and provides engaging examples of how to use performance as a critical tool to open up communication and culture. offers new, rigorous ways to analyze communication and culture through performance. Editor Judith Hamera, along with a distinguished list of contributors, provides students with cutting-edge readings of everyday life, space, history, and intersections of all three, using a critical performance-based approach. This text makes three significant contributions to the field - it familiarizes readers with the core elements and commitments of performance-based analysis, links performance-based analysis to theoretical and analytical perspectives in communication and cultural studies, and provides engaging examples of how to use performance as a critical tool to open up communication and culture. |
Índice
Opening Opening Acts | 1 |
Engaging the Everyday | 11 |
1 Becoming OtherWise | 23 |
2 Telling Twisted Tales | 49 |
Animating Locations | 75 |
Introduction | 76 |
3 Bridging Haunted Places | 81 |
4 Looking for Stonewalls Arm | 102 |
6 Diverging Paths in Performance Genealogies | 163 |
Synthesizing Scholarship | 195 |
Introduction | 196 |
7 The Mechanical Bride of YonvillelAbbaye Batteries Not Included | 199 |
Embracing Performances | 239 |
Introduction | 240 |
8 Performing TheoryEmbodied Writing | 243 |
About the Editor | 277 |
Interrogating Histories | 135 |
Introduction | 136 |
5 Rethinking Elocution | 141 |
About the Contributors | 279 |
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Opening Acts: Performance in/as Communication and Cultural Studies Judith Hamera Pré-visualização limitada - 2005 |
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