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Performance Studies, An Introduction, Second Edition

Performance Studies, An Introduction, Second Edition

Performance Studies, An Introduction, Second Edition
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Performance Studies, An Introduction, Second Edition Paperback - 2006

by Schechner, Richard

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  • Title Performance Studies, An Introduction, Second Edition
  • Author Schechner, Richard
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: secon
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 351
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2006-06
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 0415372461.G
  • ISBN 9780415372466 / 0415372461
  • Weight 2.87 lbs (1.30 kg)
  • Dimensions 10.82 x 8.64 x 0.81 in (27.48 x 21.95 x 2.06 cm)
  • Category Performing Arts
  • Library of Congress subjects Rites and ceremonies, Performing arts
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2005030245
  • Dewey Decimal Code 792.01
  • Quantity available 1

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From the publisher

In this second edition, the author opens with a discussion of important developments in the discipline. His closing chapter, 'Global and Intercultural Performance', is completely rewritten in light of the post-9/11 world. Fully revised chapters with new examples, biographies and source material provide a lively, easily accessible overview of the full range of performance for undergraduates at all levels in performance studies, theatre, performing arts and cultural studies. Among the topics discussed are the performing arts and popular entertainments, rituals, play and games as well as the performances of everyday life. Supporting examples and ideas are drawn from the social sciences, performing arts, post-structuralism, ritual theory, ethology, philosophy and aesthetics.

User-friendly, with a special text design, Performance Studies: An Introduction also includes the following features:

  • numerous extracts from primary sources giving alternative voices and viewpoints
  • biographies of key thinkers
  • student activities to stimulate fieldwork, classroom exercises and discussion
  • key reading lists for each chapter
  • twenty line drawings and 202 photographs drawn from private and public collections around the world.

About the author

Richard Schechner is a pioneer of Performance Studies. A scholar, theatre director, editor, and playwright he is University Professor of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and Editor of TDR: The Journal of Performance Studies. He is the author of Public Domain (1969), Environmental Theater (1973), The End of Humanism (1982), Performance Theory (2003, Routledge), Between Theater and Anthropology (1985), The Future of Ritual (1993, Routledge), and Over, Under, and Around: Essays on Performance and Culture (2004). His books have been translated into French, Spanish, Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Serbo-Croat, German, Italian, Hungarian, Bulgarian and Polish. He is the general editor of the Worlds of Performance series published by Routledge and the co-editor of the Enactments series published by Seagull Books.

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