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Theories of Performance
- Elizabeth Bell - University of South Florida, USA
April 2008 | 320 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
Theories of Performance invites students to explore the possibilities of performance for creating, knowing, and staking claims to the world. Each chapter surveys, explains, and illustrates classic, modern, and postmodern theories that answer the questions, "What is performance?" "Why do people perform?" and "How does performance constitute our social and political worlds?" The chapters feature performance as the entry point for understanding texts, drama, culture, social roles, identity, resistance, and technologies.
Written specifically for the undergraduate classroom, performance theories are explained in ways accessible to students, relevant to their lives, and richly illustrated with examples that encourage students to think more, to think harder, and to think differently about performances around them.
Chapter 1: Introducing Theories of Performance
Chapter 2: Constituting Performance
Chapter 3: Performing Texts
Chapter 4: Performing Drama
Chapter 5: Performing Culture
Chapter 6: Performing Social Roles
Chapter 7: Performing Identity
Chapter 8: Performing Resistance
Chapter 8: Performing Resistance
Chapter 9: Performing Technologies
Chapter 9: Performing Technology
A very thorough approach to the subject. Nicely illustrated and presented. Some of the language and terminology is very North American ('Go figure') which might put some students off. That's why it's recommended rather than a core text.
School of Arts Histories and Cultures, Manchester University
July 15, 2010
Not Adopted yet. This book is very clear and usefull, though I am trying to determine how much my students will be spending on books for my course next fall altogether. I need to keep the primary texts so I am trying to see if I can find online versions of those to offset the cost of this textbook.
English Comparative Lit Dept, University of California - Irvine
April 25, 2010
