Thompson Performance Affects

Applied Theatre and the End of Effect
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-230-24242-5
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 205 Seiten, Web PDF

Reihe: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

Performance Affects explores performance projects in disaster and war zones to argue that joy, beauty and celebration should be the inspiration for the politics of community-based or participatory performance practice, seeking to realign the field of Applied Theatre away from effects towards an affective role, connected to sensations of pleasure.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Thompson, J.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents Acknowledgments PART I: THE END OF EFFECT Introduction: Hedonism is a Bunker Incidents of Cutting and Chopping The End of the Story? Academic Scriptwriters and Bodily Affects PART II: PERFORMANCE AFFECTS Performance Affects: A Kind of Triumph The Call of Beauty: An Affective Invitation About Face: Disturbing the Fabric of the Sensible Conclusion: Let Them Slide Endnotes Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

JAMES THOMPSON Professor of Applied and Social Theatre at the University of Manchester, UK, Director of and a Director of the Centre for Applied Theatre Research. He is author of (1999), (2003), , and with Jenny Hughes and Michael Balfour, (2009).