The Cambridge companion to performance studies /

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Imprint:Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, ©2009.
Description:1 online resource (xi, 188 pages) : digital, PDF file
Language:English
Series:The Cambridge companions complete collection
The Cambridge companions to literature and classics
Cambridge collections online.
Cambridge companions complete collection.
Cambridge companions to literature and classics.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12473901
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Varying Form of Title:Performance studies
Other authors / contributors:Davis, Tracy C., 1960-
ISBN:9781139002004
1139002007
0521696267
0521874017
9780521696265
9780521874014
Notes:"Cambridge collections online."
Title from home page (viewed Feb. 8, 2011).
Includes bibliographical references.
Electronic version available only to subscribers.
Summary:Leading scholars in the field of Performance Studies consider the diverse and most recent approaches to this vibrant discipline.
Other form:Print version: 9780521874014
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the pirouette, detour, revolution, deflection, deviation, tack, and yaw of the performative turn / Tracy C. Davis
  • Social polities: history in individuals
  • Performance and democracy / Nicholas Ridout
  • Performance as research: live events and documents / Baz Kershaw
  • Movement's contagion: the kinesthetic impact of performance / Susan Leigh Foster
  • Culture, killings, and criticism in the years of living dangerously: Bali and Baliology / John Emigh
  • Universal experience: the city as tourist stage / Susan Bennett
  • Performance and intangible cultural heritage / Diana Taylor
  • Body politics: the individual in history
  • Live and technologically mediated performance / Philip Auslander
  • Moving histories: performance and oral history / Della Pollock
  • What is the "social" in social practice?: comparing experiments in performance / Shannon Jackson
  • Live art in art history: a paradox? / Amelia Jones
  • Queer theory / E. Patrick Johnson.