Analysing performance: A critical reader - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 071904250X ISBN 13: 9780719042508

Publisher: Manchester University Press, 1996

Synopsis

Each chapter in this important critical reader tackles the theory and practice of modern performance work, and enables students and teachers to see what is at stake in analysing dance, drama, music and videos using contemporary critical theories. Including Elizabeth Wright on psychoanalysis, Baz Kershaw on the politics of performance, Jatinder Verma on multiculturalism, E. Ann Kaplan on MTV and video, Lizabeth Goodman on feminism and AIDS, Stephen Connor on postmodernism and many others.

About this title

About the Author

Patrick Campbell is Principal Lecturer in English and Leader of the MA in Performing Arts at Middlesex University

From the Back Cover

Analysing performance is a wide-ranging collection of specially commissioned essays by contributors of international standing about key aspects of the performing arts.

Each chapter tackles the theory and practice of contemporary performance work, and enables students and teachers to see what is at stake in analysing dance, drama, music and videos. The commitment to cross-disciplinary approaches mirrors the breakdown of boundaries between these art forms in today's multi-media world. How do postmodernist, feminist or psychoanalytic readings construct performance worlds? What is the impact of multiculturalism on the language of theatre? What are the dynamics between AIDS, representation and live art? How does one talk about 'the body' in contemporary dance forms?

From the Inside Flap

Analysing performance is a wide-ranging collection of specially commissioned essays by contributors of international standing about key aspects of the performing arts.Each chapter tackles the theory and practice of contemporary performance work, and enables students and teachers to see what is at stake in analysing dance, drama, music and videos. The commitment to cross-disciplinary approaches mirrors the breakdown of boundaries between these art forms in today's multi-media world. How do postmodernist, feminist or psychoanalytic readings construct performance worlds? What is the impact of multiculturalism on the language of theatre? What are the dynamics between AIDS, representation and live art? How does one talk about 'the body' in contemporary dance forms?

Edition details

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 071904250X
• ISBN 13: 9780719042508
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 308
• Editor: Campbell Patrick