The Routledge Reader in Politics and Performance

Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-0-415-17473-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 535 g

The Routledge Reader in Politics and Performance brings together for the first time a comprehensive collection of extracts from key writings on politics, ideology, and performance.
Taking an interdisciplinary approach to the subject, and including new writings from leading scholars, the book provides material on:

* post-coloniality and performance theory and practice
* critical theories and performance
* intercultural perspectives
* power, politics and the theatre
* sexuality in performance
* live arts and the media
* theatre games.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

de Gay, Jane

Goodman, Lizbeth

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Methodenlehre
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface Acknowledgements List of Contributors Foreword Introduction 1.Practice to Theory: Theatre Games 2.Critical Theories and Performance 3.Theorizing and Playing: Intercultural Perspectives 4.Power, Politics and the Theatre 5.Sexuality in Performance 6.Performance Theory, Live Arts, and the Media 7.Political Theatres, Post-Coloniality, and Performance Theory 8.Post-Linearity and Gendered Performance Practice Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

Lizbeth Goodman is at the University of Surrey. She is the author of Contemporary Feminist Theatres (1993), and Feminist Stages (1996) and editor of Routledge Reader in Gender and Performance (1998), and Literature and Gender (1996). Jane de Gay is Research Assistant on the Gender, Politics, Performance Research Project at the Open University. She is the sub-editor of the Routledge Reader in Gender and Performance.