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Opening acts : performance in/as communication and cultural studies

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 anal
eBook, English, ©2006
Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, ©2006
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1 online resource (289 pages)
9781322418865, 9781412905589, 9781452267050, 1322418861, 1412905583, 1452267057
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Cover; Contents; Introduction: Opening Opening Acts; Part I: Engaging the Everyday; 1
Becoming Other-Wise; 2
Telling Twisted Tales; Part II: Animating Locations; Introduction; 3
Bridging Haunted Places; 4
Looking for Stonewall's Arm; Part III: Interrogating Histories; Introduction; 5
Rethinking Elocution; 6
Diverging Paths in Performance Genealogies; Part IV: Synthesizing Scholarship; Introduction; 7
The Mechanical Bride of Yonville-l'Abbaye (Batteries Not Included); Part V: Embracing Performances; Introduction; 8
Performing Theory/Embodied Writing; About the Editor
About the Contributors
English