The rise of performance studies
Subtitle: rethinking Richard Schechner's broad spectrum
By: edited by James M. Harding and Cindy Rosenthal
Series: Studies in international performance
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Basingstoke; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9780230242913
Subjects: Anthropological aspects; Performing arts; Criticism and interpretation; Theater
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the rise of performance studies / James Harding and Cindy Rosenthal; title: pt. 1. Performance/theatre/studies. Performance studies and the enhancement of theatre studies / Marvin Carlson; title: In defense of the string quartet: an open letter to Richard Schechner / Stephen Bottoms; title: Experimenting with an unfinished discipline: Richard Schechner, the avant-garde, and performance studies / James M. Harding and Cindy Rosenthal; title: pt. 2. Performance studies genealogies. Wayang studies? / Paul Rae; title: Today I am a field: performance studies comes of age / Henry Bial; title: Richard Schechner and performance studies in China / Yu Jiancun and Peng Yongwen; title: Australian performance studies marginally off centre / Peter Eckersall; title: pt. 3. Working with Richard. Reactuals: from personal to critical and back / Rebecca Schneider; title: Fanning the flames: Richard Schechner's TDR / Mariellen R. Sandford; title: Liminal Richard: approaches to performance studies / John Emigh; title: The broadest spectrum of pluralities: performance studies, theatre practices, theatre histories, and beyond / Phillip Zarrilli; title: pt. 4. Practicing performance: Schechner among the performers. Richard Schechner / Judith Malina; title: Joan MacIntosh: interview, July 2008 / Cindy Rosenthal; title: Elizabeth LeCompte: interview, June 2008 / Cindy Rosenthal; title: For Richard / Anna Deavere Smith; title: Performing against the backdrop of the War on Terror / Guillermo Gómez-Peña; title: pt. 5. Engaging dialogue: Schechner as critical interlocutor. Trauma as durational performance / Diana Taylor; title: Medical clowning and performance theory / Atay Citron; title: Restored restored behavior or the emperor of California roll: 1989-90 Japanese imperial rites of funeral and enthronement / Takahashi Yuichiro; title: "Deep play, dark play": framing the limit(less) / Joseph Roach.