"The field of performance studies analyses the production and impact of on-stage performance, such as in a theatre or circus, and off-stage performance, such as cultural rituals and political protests. Performance Studies: Key Words, Concepts and Theories introduces students to 34 key topics seen as paramount to the future of performance studies in a series of short, engaging essays by an international team of distinguished scholars. Each essay contributes to the wide-ranging, adventurous and conscientious nature that makes performance studies such an innovative, valuable and exciting field"--
The field of performance studies analyses the production and impact of on-stage performance, such as in a theatre or circus, and off-stage performance, such as cultural rituals and political protests. Performance Studies: Key Words, Concepts and Theories introduces students to 34 key topics seen as paramount to the future of performance studies in a series of short, engaging essays by an international team of distinguished scholars. Each essay contributes to the wide-ranging, adventurous and conscientious nature that makes performance studies such an innovative, valuable and exciting field.
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| Acknowledgements |
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| Introduction: The Ethical Drive |
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Chapter 1 The 'F' Word, Feminism's Critical Futures |
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Chapter 4 Digital Culture |
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Chapter 7 Neuroaesthetics, Technoembodiment |
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Chapter 8 Recursion, Iteration, Difference |
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Chapter 9 Living History, Re-enactment |
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Chapter 10 Performance Philosophy |
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Chapter 11 Translation, Cultural Ownership |
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Chapter 12 The Intense Exterior |
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Chapter 13 Cosmopolitanism |
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Chapter 14 Cultural Diversity |
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Chapter 15 Citizenship, the Ethics of Inclusion |
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Chapter 16 Installation, Constellation |
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Chapter 17 Spatial Concepts |
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Chapter 18 Consensus, Dissensus |
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Chapter 19 Counterpropaganda, Resistance |
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Chapter 21 Social Somatics |
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Chapter 22 Globalization, the Glocal, Third Space Theatre |
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Chapter 23 Theatre of Immediacy, Transversal Poetics |
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Chapter 24 Time in Theatre |
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Chapter 25 Empathetic Engagement |
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Chapter 26 Theories of Festival |
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Chapter 27 Magic in Theatre |
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Chapter 28 Animality, Posthumanism |
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Chapter 29 Postdramatic Theatre |
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Chapter 30 Evo-Neuro-Theatre |
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Chapter 31 International/ism |
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Chapter 32 Transculturation |
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Chapter 33 Social Practice |
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Bryan Reynolds is Chancellor's Professor of Drama at the University of California, Irvine, USA. He has held visiting professorships at Queen Mary, University of London, University of Amsterdam, Utrecht University, University of Cologne, University College Utrecht, Goethe University-Frankfurt am Main, and the University of California, San Diego. His books include Transversal Subjects: From Montaigne to Deleuze after Derrida, Transversal Enterprises in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries: Fugitive Explorations, Performing Transversally: Reimagining Shakespeare and the Critical Future, and Becoming Criminal: Transversal Performance and Cultural Dissidence in Early Modern England. He is also an internationally produced playwright, performer and director of theatre.
