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Performance: A Critical Introduction

by: Marvin Carlson

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 700.97309045
EAN: 9780415299275
Edition: 2
ISBN: 0415299276
Label: Routledge
Manufacturer: Routledge
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 280
Publication Date: December 09, 2003
Publisher: Routledge
Studio: Routledge

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Editorial Review:
Performance: A Critical Introduction was the first textbook to provide an overview of the modern concept of performance and its development in various related fields. This comprehensively revised, illustrated edition discusses recent performance work and takes into consideration changes that have taken place in the study of performance since the book's original publication in 1996. Marvin Carlson guides the reader through the contested definition of performance as a theatrical activity and the myriad ways in which performance has been interpreted by ethnographers, anthropologists, linguists and cultural theorists. Topics covered include:
--The evolution of performance art since the 1960s
--The relationship between performance, postmodernism, the politics of identity and current cultural studies
--The recent theoretical developments in the study of performance in the fields of anthropology, psychoanalysis, linguistics and technology
With a fully updated bibliography andadditional glossary of terms, students of performance studies, visual and performing arts or theatre history will welcome this new version of a classic text.

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