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Teaching Performance Studies (Theater in the Americas)
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Description for Teaching Performance Studies (Theater in the Americas)
Paperback. An organized treatment of performance studies theory, practice and pedagogy. The 18 essays by scholars and educators seek to reflect the emergent and contested nature of performance studies, a field that looks at the broad range of human performance from everyday conversation to formal theatre. Editor(s): Stucky, Nathan; Wimmer, Cynthia. Series: Theater in the Americas. Num Pages: 304 pages, 7 illustrations. BIC Classification: ANC; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 149 x 226 x 17. Weight in Grams: 428.
An organized treatment of performance studies theory, practice and pedagogy. This collection of 18 essays by scholars and educators seeks to reflect the emergent and contested nature of performance studies, a field that looks at the broad range of human performance from everyday conversation to formal theatre and cultural ritual. The cross-disciplinary freedom enacted by the writers suggests a new vision of performance studies - a deliberate commerce between field and classroom.
An organized treatment of performance studies theory, practice and pedagogy. This collection of 18 essays by scholars and educators seeks to reflect the emergent and contested nature of performance studies, a field that looks at the broad range of human performance from everyday conversation to formal theatre and cultural ritual. The cross-disciplinary freedom enacted by the writers suggests a new vision of performance studies - a deliberate commerce between field and classroom.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Condition
New
Series
Theater in the Americas
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Carbondale, United States
ISBN
9780809324668
SKU
V9780809324668
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99-1
About
Nathan Stucky is an associate professor and the chair of the Department of Speech Communication at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He has edited Theatre Annual: A Journal of Performance Studies and has served as the chair of the Performance Studies Division of the National Communication Association and on the executive board of Performance Studies International. Cynthia Wimmer has taught courses ... Read more
Reviews for Teaching Performance Studies (Theater in the Americas)
recounts a wide variety of teaching methods, experiences, theories, and approaches. All of it fits under the big performance studies tent.... An elusive, playful, embodied, multifaceted, protean operation: Teaching performance studies is very much a creative art. - Richard Schechner, from the Foreword