Performance and the City

by Hopkins, D.J.; Orr, Shelley; Solga, Kim

• ISBN13: 9780230204973
• ISBN10: 023020497X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-06-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Urban studies has long understood the city as a #x18;text.#x19; What would it mean now to use performance to rethink that metaphor?Performance and the Cityqueries the role theatre and performance play in urban policy, architecture, and civic history, while also exploring their important place in the memories created in the wake of urban trauma.

Author Biography

D.J. HOPKINS is Head of Theatre Studies in the School of Theatre, Television, and Film at San Diego State University. He is the author of City/Stage/Globe: Performance and Space in Shakespeare's London.
 
SHELLEY ORR teaches in the School of Theatre, Television, and Film at San Diego State University, in both the graduate and undergraduate programs. She heads the dramaturgy area at SDSU and is President of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA).
 
KIM SOLGA is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. She is the author of the forthcoming book Witnessing Violence Against Women in Early Modern Performance: Invisible Acts.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. ix
Notes on Contributors	p. x
Introduction: City/Text/Performance	p. 1
Pedestrianisms, or Remembering the City
Pedestrianisms, or Remembering the City: Introduction	p. 13
Ways to Walk New York After 9/11	p. 15
Memory/Memorial/Performance: Lower Manhattan, 1776/2001	p. 33
Patricide and the Passerby	p. 51
Urban Performance and Cultural Policy
Urban Performance and Cultural Policy: Introduction	p. 71
Multicultural Text, Intercultural Performance: The Performance Ecology of Contemporary Toronto	p. 73
Mission Accomplished: Broadway, 9/11, and the Republican National Convention	p. 92
Performing the Civic Transnational: Cultural Production, Governance, and Citizenship in Contemporary London	p. 110
Performing (for) One Another: Constructing Communities
Performing (for) One Another: Constructing Communities Introduction	p. 131
Surviving the City: Press Agents, Publicity Stunts, and the Spectacle of the Urban Female Body	p. 133
Dress Suits to Hire and the Landscape of Queer Urbanity	p. 152
Global Exposures: Blur Street and Interurban Self-Portraiture (a Photo-Essay)	p. 169
At the City Limits
At the City Limits: Introduction	p. 185
Staging the Imagined City in Australian Theatre	p. 187
Agency and Complicity in `A Special Civic Room': London's Tate Modern Turbine Hall	p. 204
Staging a Vanished Community: Daniel Libeskind's Scenography in the Berlin Jewish Museum	p. 222
Can the City Speak? Site-Specific Art After Poststructuralism	p. 240
Afterword: Performing the City - A Wonder Cabinet	p. 258
Index	p. 262
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