Theories of Performance (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781412926386)

Theories of Performance invites students to explore the possibilities of performance for creating, knowing, and staking claims to the world. Each chapter surveys, explains, and illustrates classic, modern, and postmodern theories that answer the questions, "What is performance?" "Why do people perform?" and "How does performance constitute our social and political worlds?" The chapters feature performance as the entry point for understanding texts, drama, culture, social roles, identity, resistance, and technologies.


Author: Elizabeth Bell
ISBN-10: 1412926386
ISBN-13: 9781412926386
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Language: English
Published: 02/11/2008
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.09lbs
Size: 9.87h x 7.04w x 0.47d