<p>Performance and Cultural Politics is a groundbreaking collection of essays which explore the historical and cultural territories of performance, written by the foremost scholars in the field. The essays, exploring performance art, theatre, music and dance, range from Oscar Wilde to Eric Clapton; from the Rose Theatre to U.S. Holocaust museums. The topic includes: * Sex Play: Stereotype, Pose and Dildo * Grave Performances: The Cultural Politics of Memory * Genealogies: Critical Performances * Identity Politics: Passing, Carnival and the Law In the concluding section, 'Performer's Performance' performance artist Robbie McCauley offers the practitioner's perspective on performance studies. Interdisciplinary, thought-provoking and rich in new ideas, Performance and Cultural Politics is a landmark in the emerging field of performance studies.</p>

Performance and Cultural Politics

Emily Apter

Herbert Blau

Ed Cohen

Lynda Hart

Peggy Phelan

Vivian Patraka

Philip Auslander

Susan Foster

Rebecca Shneider

Joseph Roach

Humor & Entertainment

Routledge

This remarkable collection of writings on theatre ranges easily from Shakespeare to Chekhov to Brecht, Artaud, Beckett and upto the important experimenters of today, Robert Wilson, Richard Foreman, The Wooster Group and others.  There are also discussions of European work by Grotowski, Peter Brook and Ariane Mnouchkine. Whatever the topic, Blau's ideas are shaped by new currents in thinking suggested by post-structuralism, the sciences, counter-culture styles and post-modernist aesthetics. 'Bloodied Thought' addresses crucial issues of contemporary theatre...what is the nature of illusion and representation? how does a text suggest meaning? what is the value of deconstruction? ...and its audience in an ever-changing social frame.

Blooded Thought: Occasions of Theatre

Literature & Fiction

Performing Arts Journal Publications

Programming Theater History

Taylor&Francis

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