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Critical Theory and Performance: Revised and Enlarged Edition (Theater: Theory/Text/Performance)
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Description for Critical Theory and Performance: Revised and Enlarged Edition (Theater: Theory/Text/Performance)
Hardcover. Presents a range of critical and theoretical methods, and applies them to contemporary and historical performance genres - from stage plays, dance-dramas, performance art, cabaret, stand-up comedy, and jazz to circus, street theater, and shamanistic ritual. This edition features sixteen essays, which are organized into nine theoretical categories. Editor(s): Reinelt, Prof. Janelle G.; Roach, Joseph. Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance. Num Pages: 592 pages, 48 illustrations. BIC Classification: AN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 187 x 261 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1390.
Critical Theory and Performance presents a broad range of critical and theoretical methods, and applies them to contemporary and historical performance genres - from stage plays, dance-dramas, performance art, cabaret, stand-up comedy, and jazz to circus, street theater, and shamanistic ritual. As the first comprehensive introduction to critical theory's rich and diverse contributions to the study of drama, theater, and performance, the book has been highly influential for more than a decade in providing fertile ground for academic investigations of the lively field of performance studies. The revised edition presents sixteen new essays by the field's leading critics and practitioners, ... Read more
Critical Theory and Performance presents a broad range of critical and theoretical methods, and applies them to contemporary and historical performance genres - from stage plays, dance-dramas, performance art, cabaret, stand-up comedy, and jazz to circus, street theater, and shamanistic ritual. As the first comprehensive introduction to critical theory's rich and diverse contributions to the study of drama, theater, and performance, the book has been highly influential for more than a decade in providing fertile ground for academic investigations of the lively field of performance studies. The revised edition presents sixteen new essays by the field's leading critics and practitioners, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
Series
Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
Number of Pages
592
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472098866
SKU
V9780472098866
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About Reinelt
Janelle G. Reinelt is Associate Dean in the College of Fine Arts at the University of California, Irvine. She is author of After Brecht: British Epic Theater. Joseph R. Roach is Charles C. & Dorathea S. Dilley Professor of Theater and Theater Studies and African American Studies, Yale University. His book Cities of the Dead: Circum-Atlantic Performance won the James ... Read more
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