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Postmodernism and Performance

Author : Nick Kaye
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312120238
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Postmodernism and Performance written by Nick Kaye and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1994 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text is aimed at undergraduates on Drama / Theatre Studies, English and Cultural Studies degrees and at specialist drama bookshops. This book explores ways in which ideas and practices emerging in art, architecture and music have been taken up and developed in recent performance. Setting the notion of a postmodern style against a broader concept of the postmodern work, the study considers various forms of performance art, dance and theatre which define themselves in opposition to self-consciously modernist modes of work. In doing so, the book seeks to describe a position underlying a range of forms which opposes notions of the self-contained, autonomous art-work and may be understood in relation to concepts of the postmodern defined in criticism, philosophy and cultural theory. It aims to offer a broad-ranging understanding of postmodernism in art, architecture, music and performance, before engaging in a detailed consideration of postmodernism and the performance arts. It is a useful guide and reference book to modernism / post-modernism especially for Theatre Studies / Drama degrees.

From Acting to Performance

Author : Philip Auslander
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134727194
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book From Acting to Performance written by Philip Auslander and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-04-12 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Acting to Performance collects for the first time major essays by performance theorist and critic Philip Auslander. Together these essays provide a survey of the changes in acting and performance during the crucial transition from the ecstatic theatre of the 1960s to the ironic postmodernism of the 1980s. Auslander examines performance genres ranging from theatre and dance to performance art and stand-up comedy. In doing so he discusses an impressive line-up of practitioners including Antonin Artaud, Jerzy Grotowski, Peter Brook, Willem Dafoe, the Wooster Group, Augusto Boal, Kate Bornstein, and Orlan. From Acting to Performance is a must for all students and scholars interested in contemporary theatre and performance.

The Cambridge Companion to Postmodernism

Author : Steven Connor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521648400
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (484 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Postmodernism written by Steven Connor and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-07-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Companion to Postmodernism offers a comprehensive introduction to postmodernism. The Companion examines the different aspects of postmodernist thought and culture that have had a significant impact on contemporary cultural production and thinking. Topics discussed by experts in the field include postmodernism's relation to modernity, and its significance and relevance to literature, film, law, philosophy, architecture, religion and modern cultural studies. The volume also includes a useful guide to further reading and a chronology. This is an essential aid for students and teachers from a range of disciplines interested in postmodernism in all its incarnations. Accessible and comprehensive, this Companion addresses the many issues surrounding this elusive, enigmatic and often controversial topic.

Performance in Postmodern Culture

Author : Michel Benamou
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Performance in Postmodern Culture written by Michel Benamou and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Directing Postmodern Theater

Author : Jon Whitmore
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472065578
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (655 download)

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Download or read book Directing Postmodern Theater written by Jon Whitmore and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to theatrical directing using the concepts and terminology of semiotic theory

Presence and Resistance

Author : Philip Auslander
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780472082780
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (827 download)

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Download or read book Presence and Resistance written by Philip Auslander and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines performance art in the 1980s and new modes of political art in a media-saturated culture

Digital Performance

Author : Steve Dixon
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262303329
Total Pages : 1027 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Digital Performance written by Steve Dixon and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2007-02-23 with total page 1027 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The historical roots, key practitioners, and artistic, theoretical, and technological trends in the incorporation of new media into the performing arts. The past decade has seen an extraordinarily intense period of experimentation with computer technology within the performing arts. Digital media has been increasingly incorporated into live theater and dance, and new forms of interactive performance have emerged in participatory installations, on CD-ROM, and on the Web. In Digital Performance, Steve Dixon traces the evolution of these practices, presents detailed accounts of key practitioners and performances, and analyzes the theoretical, artistic, and technological contexts of this form of new media art. Dixon finds precursors to today's digital performances in past forms of theatrical technology that range from the deus ex machina of classical Greek drama to Wagner's Gesamtkunstwerk (concept of the total artwork), and draws parallels between contemporary work and the theories and practices of Constructivism, Dada, Surrealism, Expressionism, Futurism, and multimedia pioneers of the twentieth century. For a theoretical perspective on digital performance, Dixon draws on the work of Philip Auslander, Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes, Jean Baudrillard, and others. To document and analyze contemporary digital performance practice, Dixon considers changes in the representation of the body, space, and time. He considers virtual bodies, avatars, and digital doubles, as well as performances by artists including Stelarc, Robert Lepage, Merce Cunningham, Laurie Anderson, Blast Theory, and Eduardo Kac. He investigates new media's novel approaches to creating theatrical spectacle, including virtual reality and robot performance work, telematic performances in which remote locations are linked in real time, Webcams, and online drama communities, and considers the "extratemporal" illusion created by some technological theater works. Finally, he defines categories of interactivity, from navigational to participatory and collaborative. Dixon challenges dominant theoretical approaches to digital performance—including what he calls postmodernism's denial of the new—and offers a series of boldly original arguments in their place.

Performing Psychology

Author : Lois Holzman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113596209X
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Performing Psychology written by Lois Holzman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than an academic critique, Performing Psychology offers a new methodology for understanding human life. Arguing that both psychological activity and its study are essentially performance, Neuman and his colleagues expose the myths of mainstream psychology and the limitations of its postmodern challengers.

Demography in the Age of the Postmodern

Author : Nancy E. Riley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521533645
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (336 download)

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Download or read book Demography in the Age of the Postmodern written by Nancy E. Riley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-07-24 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demography has developed into a remarkably coherent field and now stands as a firmly established discipline with strong ties to policy-making agencies. However, in recent years there has been increasing recognition within demography of the limits of existing theories and methods, particularly its absence of a strong critical tradition and its isolation from recent theoretical developments in other social sciences. In this study, Nancy Riley and James McCarthy use the lens of postmodernism to structure a critical analysis of the field of demography. Paying particular attention to the fundamental epistemologies and methodologies that currently underlie the field, they explore how postmodern perspectives might serve to energize the field and how demography could be enhanced by the introduction of insights from other social sciences. Drawing on examples of new kinds of research in demography and related fields, this is an important new book that seeks to reinvigorate the field of demography.

Performance in the Twenty-First Century

Author : Andy Lavender
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113646719X
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (364 download)

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Download or read book Performance in the Twenty-First Century written by Andy Lavender and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-26 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performance in the Twenty-First Century: Theatres of Engagement addresses the reshaping of theatre and performance after postmodernism. Andy Lavender argues provocatively that after the ‘classic’ postmodern tropes of detachment, irony, and contingency, performance in the twenty-first century engages more overtly with meaning, politics and society. It involves a newly pronounced form of personal experience, often implicating the body and/or one’s sense of self. This volume examines a range of performance events, including work by both emergent and internationally significant companies and artists such as Rimini Protokoll, Blast Theory, dreamthinkspeak, Zecora Ura, Punchdrunk, Ontroerend Goed, Kris Verdonck, Dries Verhoeven, Rabih Mroué, Derren Brown and David Blaine. It also considers a wider range of cultural phenomena such as online social networking, sports events, installations, games-based work and theme parks, where principles of performance are in play. Performance in the Twenty-First Century is a compelling and provocative resource for anybody interested in discovering how performance theory can be applied to cutting-edge culture, and indeed the world around them.

Postmodern/drama

Author : Stephen Watt
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472108725
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book Postmodern/drama written by Stephen Watt and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scrutinizing the critical tendency to label texts or writers as "postmodern", scholar Stephen Watt argues that "reading post modernly" merely implies reading culture more broadly. In contemporary drama, Watt considers postmodernity less a question of genre or media than a mode of subjectivity shared by both playwright and audience. 6 illustrations.

The Reign of Anti-logos

Author : David Hawkes
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030559408
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book The Reign of Anti-logos written by David Hawkes and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of ‘performativity’ has risen to prominence throughout the humanities. The rise of financial derivatives reflects the power of the performative sign in the economic sphere. As recent debates about gender identity show, the concept of performativity is also profoundly influential on people’s personal lives. Although the autonomous power of representation has been studied in disciplines ranging from economics to poetics, however, it has not yet been evaluated in ethical terms. This book supplies that deficiency, providing an ethical critique of performative representation as it is manifested in semiotics, linguistics, philosophy, poetics, theology and economics. It constructs a moral criticism of the performative sign in two ways: first, by identifying its rise to power as a single phenomenon manifested in various different areas; and second, by locating efficacious representation in its historical context, thus connecting it to idolatry, magic, usury and similar performative signs. The book concludes by suggesting that earlier ethical critiques of efficacious representation might be revived in our own postmodern era.

International Postmodernism

Author : Johannes Willem Bertens
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027234452
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book International Postmodernism written by Johannes Willem Bertens and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing more than fifty essays by major literary scholars, International Postmodernism divides into four main sections. The volume starts off with a section of eight introductory studies dealing with the subject from different points of view followed by a section that deals with postmodernism in other arts than literature, while a third section discusses renovations of narrative genres and other strategies and devices in postmodernist writing. The final and fourth section deals with the reception and processing of postmodernism in different parts of the world. Three important aspects add to the special character of International Postmodernism: The consistent distinction between postmodernity and postmodernism; equal attention to the making and diffusion of postmodernism and the workings of literature in general; and the focus on the text and the reader (i.e., the reader's knowledge, experience, interests, and competence) as crucial factors in text interpretation. This comprehensive study does not expressly focus on American postmodernism, although American interpretations of postmodernism are a major point of reference. The recognition that varying literary and cultural conditions in this world are bound to produce endless varieties of postmodernism made the editors, Hans Bertens and Douwe Fokkema, opt for the title International Postmodernism.

Challenging Modernity

Author : Mark A. Pegrum
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781571811301
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book Challenging Modernity written by Mark A. Pegrum and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, for the first time, examines in depth the link between modernism and postmodernism and demonstrates the extensive similarities, as well as the few crucial differences between the ideas and art of the Dadaists on the one hand, and those of contemporary postmodern thinkers and artists on the other.

The Cambridge Companion to Tom Stoppard

Author : Katherine E. Kelly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521645928
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (459 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Tom Stoppard written by Katherine E. Kelly and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-09-20 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Companion to the work of playwright Tom Stoppard who also co-authored screenplay of Shakespeare in Love.

Memory-theater and Postmodern Drama

Author : Jeanette R. Malkin
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472110377
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Memory-theater and Postmodern Drama written by Jeanette R. Malkin and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a new way of defining--and understanding--postmodern drama

Postmodernism And The Politics Of 'Culture'

Author : Adam Katz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429977751
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Postmodernism And The Politics Of 'Culture' written by Adam Katz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-05 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postmodernism and the Politics of 'Culture' is a comparative critical analysis of the political and intellectual ambitions of postmodernist critical theory and the academic discipline of cultural studies. Katz's polemical aim is to show that cultural studies comes up short in both areas, because its practitioners focus on too-narrow issues-primarily, celebrating the folkways of micro-communities-while denying the very possibility of studying, understanding, and changing society in any comprehensive way and to any universally beneficial purpose. He argues that scholars and activists alike would do well to make use of the analytical tools of postmodernist critical theory, whose practitioners acknowledge the political significance of the differences between social groups, but do not consider them to be unbridgeable, and so seek to develop a set of practices for creating a truly inclusive, truly democratic public sphere.