Critical Theory And Performance

by Reinelt, Janelle G.

• ISBN13: 9780472068869
• ISBN10: 0472068865
• Edition: Large
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-05-08
• Publisher: Univ of Michigan Pr

Summary

Critical Theory and Performancepresents a broad range of critical and theoretical methods and applies them to contemporary and historical performance genresfrom 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 in the lively field of performance studies. This updated and expanded edition presents nineteen new essays by the field's leading scholars and practitioners as well as new critical introductions by editors Janelle G. Reinelt and Joseph R. Roach. Reflecting recent trends in performance studies, this revised edition now includes discussions of critical race theory, postcolonial studies, gender and sexualities, and mediatized cultures. The resulting volume is a unique and indispensable tool for critics, teachers, and students that paves the way for future scholarship. Janelle G. Reinelt is Professor of Theatre and Performance at the University of Warwick. Reinelt and Roach Joseph R. Roach is Charles C. and Dorathea S. Dilley Professor of Theater and English at Yale University.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition	p. xi
Introduction to the First Edition	p. 1
Performance Analysis	p. 7
Semiotics and Its Heritage	p. 13
The Phenomenological Attitude	p. 26
Alceste in Hollywood: A Semiotic Reading of The Misanthrope	p. 37
Every Transaction Conjures a New Boundary	p. 49
Postcolonial Studies	p. 67
Performing History's Unsettlement	p. 71
What Is to Be Remembered?: Tourism to Ghana's Slave Castle-Dungeons	p. 85
For Whom Is the King a King? Issues of Intercultural Production, Perception, and Reception in a Kathakali King Lear	p. 108
Critical Race Theory	p. 135
Black/face Publics: The Social Bodies of Fraternidad	p. 141
Virtual Chinatown and New Racial Formation: Performance of Cantonese Opera in the Bay Area	p. 156
Reality	p. 173
Theater History and Historiography	p. 191
Theater Events and Their Political Contexts: A Problem in the Writing of Theater History	p. 198
Representing History: Performing the Columbian Exposition	p. 223
Kinesthetic Empathies and the Politics of Compassion	p. 245
After Marx	p. 259
Shadows of Brecht	p. 268
Historicizing the Relations of Theatrical Production	p. 284
Brecht and the Contradictory Actor	p. 295
Gender and Sexualities	p. 311
Mrs. Siddons Looks Back in Anger: Feminist Historiography for Eighteenth-Century British Theater	p. 317
Practicing Cultural Disruptions: Gay and Lesbian Representation and Sexuality	p. 334
Fe/male Impersonation: The Discourse of Camp	p. 355
Not-About-AIDS	p. 372
Psychoanalysis	p. 395
The Violence of "We": Politicizing Identification	p. 403
Staging Sexual Injury: How I Learned to Drive	p. 413
Immobile Legs, Stalled Words: Psychoanalysis and Moving Deaths	p. 432
Performance Studies	p. 457
Invasions Friendly and Unfriendly: The Dramaturgy of Direct Theater	p. 462
Performance Theory, Hmong Shamans, and Cultural Politics	p. 482
Animal Rites: Performing beyond the Human	p. 506
Mediatized Cultures	p. 521
Live from Cyberspace, or, I, Was Sitting at My Computer This Guy Appeared He Thought I Was a Bot	p. 526
Virtually Yours: Presence, Liveness, Lessness	p. 532
Dracula's Daughters: In-Corporating Avatars in Cyberspace	p. 547
Contributors	p. 563
Index	p. 569
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