To All Appearances: Ideology and Performance

Herbert Blau

ISBN 10: 0415013658 / ISBN 13: 9780415013659

Published by Routledge, UK, 1992

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This is a book in which ideology and performance shadow each other, in a theoretical inquiry which ranges widely across historical periods and cultures. A brilliant and chastening look at the rhetoric of critical theory in relation to performance and ideological practice, this is a book for the 21st century. A good clean and tight copy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: To All Appearances: Ideology and Performance
• Publisher: Routledge, UK
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415013658
• ISBN 13: 9780415013659
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Pictorial soft covers

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Synopsis

This is a book in which ideology and performance shadow each other, in a theoretical inquiry which ranges widely across historical periods and cultures. The author's concerns - which include the social meaning of illusion and the cultural manifestation of power - take the reader from Eleanora Duse to Laurie Anderson; from the puppet theatre of Kleist to Kantor's theatre of the dead; and from the Kutiyattam temple dancers in Kerala to Womanhouse in Los Angeles. This book should be of interest to undergraduates, postgraduates and academics of theatre and cultural studies.