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Opening acts : performance in/as communication and cultural studies

Judith Hamera (Editor)
This book offers new, rigorous ways to analyze communication and culture through performance. It offers cutting edge readings of everyday life, space, history, and intersections of all three, using a critical performance-based approach. This book makes three contributions: it familiarizes readers with the core elements and commitments of performance-based analysis; it links performance-based analysis to theoretical and analytical perspectives in communication and cultural studies; it provides engaging examples of how to use performance as a critical tool to open up communication and culture
Print Book, English, ©2006
Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, ©2006
viii, 280 pages ; 24 cm
9781412905572, 9781412905589, 1412905575, 1412905583
57564680
Online version:
Becoming other-wise : conversational performance and the politics of experience / Leonard Clyde Hawes
Telling twisted tales : owning place, owning culture in ethnographic research / Bryant Keith Alexander
Bridging haunted places : performance and the production of Mostar / Sonja Arsham Kuftinec
Looking for Stonewall's arm : tourist performance as research method / Michael S. Bowman
Rethinking elocution : the trope of the talking book and the other figures of speech / Dwight Conquergood
Diverging paths in performance genealogies / Ruth Laurion Bowman
The mechanical bride of Yonville-l'Abbaye (batteries not included) : remapping the canonical landmark / Paul Edwards
Performing theory/embodied writing / D. Soyini Madison