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The performer : art, life, politics
'The Performer' explores the rich relations of the performing arts to society. It traces performing spaces in the city; the emergence of actors, musicians, and dancers as independent artists; the inequality between performer and spectator; the uneasy relations between artistic creation and social and religious ritual, the uses and abuses of acting by politicians. 'The Performer' ties issues together by exploring the sensory powers which the performing arts themselves share, via physical gesture and blocking onstage, lighting, costuming and scenery.
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Performing Mexicanidad
An examination of the intersection of public discourses on sexualities with recent political, economic, and social shifts in the national context of Mexico and the Mexican diaspora in the United States.
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Rethinking practice as research and the cognitive turn
\"The last 15 years has seen an explosion of studies that use cognitive science to understand theatre, what McConachie and Hart (2006) called 'the cognitive turn' in theatre studies, whilst at the same time theatre-makers are using their artistic practice to interrogate research questions. Although these two areas might seem distinct, perhaps even opposed, in this book Shaun May suggests that there is a great deal to be gained from analysing them together and carefully attending to their conceptual foundations. After arguing that much of the work in the cognitive turn is conceptually flawed, May draws on the work of Gilbert Ryle and Ludwig Wittgenstein to suggest a rethinking of the concept of mind, and moreover, reasons that this should form the foundation for our understanding of the kind of 'doing-thinking' that is characteristic of practice as research\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Costume in Performance
This beautifully illustrated book conveys the centrality of costume to live performance. Finding associations between contemporary practices and historical manifestations, costume is explored in six thematic chapters, examining the transformative ritual of costuming; choruses as reflective of society; the grotesque, transgressive costume; the female sublime as emancipation; costume as sculptural art in motion; and the here-and-now as history. Viewing the material costume as a crucial aspect in the preparation, presentation, and reception of live performance, the book brings together costumed performances through history. These range from ancient Greece to modern experimental productions, from medieval theatre to modernist dance, from the “fashion plays” to contemporary Shakespeare, marking developments in both culture and performance. Revealing the relationship between dress, the body, and human existence, and acknowledging a global as well as an Anglo and Eurocentric perspective, this book shows costume’s ability to cross both geographical and disciplinary borders. Through it, we come to question the extent to which the material costume actually co-authors the performance itself, speaking of embodied histories, states of being, and never-before imagined futures, which come to life in the temporary space of the performance. With a contribution by Melissa Trimingham, University of Kent, UK.
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The Tudor Play of Mind
Contrary to the widespread assumption that Elizabethan drama grows
out of an essentially homiletic tradition, The Tudor Play of
Mind proposes that many important plays-including such diverse
works as Gorboduc, Endimion, Tamburlaine, The Spanish Tragedy,
Every Man in His Humour, and Bussy D'Ambois -are
informed by the ancient rhetorical tradition of posing questions
and arguing them in utramque partem emphasized in humanist
education. This accounts for the complex and often ambivalent
responses they demand. In support of this thesis, Joel B. Altman
shows how abstract debate questions were developed into
increasingly subtle mimetic fictions in the sixteenth century. He
discusses the significance of this process for the drama through
detailed analyses of early debate plays, the Terentian commentaries
and English comedy, Lyly's court allegories, Senecan tragedy, and
the experimental plays of Marlowe. Altman's argument that Tudor
playwrights offered their audiences dramatized inquiries will
profoundly affect our interpretation of individual plays and our
assessment of the larger cultural function of drama in the period.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1978.
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American Postfeminist Cinema
In light of their tremendous gains in the political and professional sphere, and their ever expanding options, why do most contemporary American films aimed at women still focus almost exclusively on their pursuit of a heterosexual romantic relationship? American Postfeminist Cinema explores this question and is the first book to examine the symbiotic relationship between heterosexual romance and postfeminist culture. The book argues that since 1980, postfeminism's most salient tensions and anxieties have been reflected in the American romance film. Case studies of a broad range of Hollywood and independent films reveal how the postfeminist romance cycle is intertwined with contemporary women's ambivalence and broader cultural anxieties about women's changing social and political status. Key Features: Offers a new perspective on both popular American romance films and postfeminist cultural criticism by examining the symbiotic relationship between romance and postfeminism. Analyses the recurring narrative and discursive patterns of postfeminist cinema. Includes 13 case studies of popular postfeminist films and other media texts, including television programmes. Continues the tradition of feminist analysis of romance as a significant media genre for women.
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Performance and cosmopolitics : cross-cultural transactions in Australasia
'Performance and Cosmopolitics' is a ground-breaking study of cross-cultural theatre in the Australasian region. Focusing on a range of theatrical events and practices in avant-garde, mainstream and community contexts, the text explores the cultural, political and ethical dimensions of Australia's engagement with Asia.
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Fire Dancers in Thailand's Tourism Industry
Fire Dancers in Thailand's Tourism
Industry explores the evolution of fire
dancing from informal community jam sessions into the iconic,
tourist-oriented performances at beach parties and bars, through a
close consideration of the role of affect in the lives of fire
dancers in the ever-changing scene.
Rather than pursuing the common notion that tourism industries
are exploitative enterprises that oppress workers, Tiffany Rae
Pollock centers the perspectives of fire artists themselves, who
view the industry as simultaneously generative and destructive.
Dancers reveal how they employ affect to navigate their lives, art,
and labor in this context, showcasing how affect is not only a
force that acts on people but also is used and shaped by social
actors toward their own ends. Fire Dancers in Thailand's
Tourism Industry highlights men as affective laborers,
investigating how they manage the eroticization of their identities
and the intersections of art and labor in tourist economies.
Exploring moments of performance and everyday life, Pollock
examines how fire artists reimagine their labor, lives, and
communities in Thailand's tourism industry.
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