Opening Acts
Subtitle: Performance in/as Communication and Cultural Studies
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Published: July 22, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781412905572
Subjects: Communication Studies; Cultural studies; Social aspects; Language; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Communication; Language Arts & Disciplines / Communication; Dialectic; Culture
First sentence: Everyday life is everywhere and nowhere: the cellular mechanics of identity and culture so ubiquitous as to be invisible.
Description: This book offers new, rigorous ways to analyze communication and culture through performance. It offers cutting edge readings of everyday life, space, history, and intersections of all three, using a critical performance-based approach. This book makes three contributions: it familiarizes readers with the core elements and commitments of performance-based analysis; it links performance-based analysis to theoretical and analytical perspectives in communication and cultural studies; it provides engaging examples of how to use performance as a critical tool to open up communication and culture.