The rise of performance studies: rethinking Richard Schechner's broad spectrum

Few individuals have positioned their work more controversially or consequently than Richard Schechner within the pivotal debates that define Performance Studies. 'The Rise of Performance Studies' is the first collection of essays tocritically examine the profound contributions that Schechner has made to Performance Studies as a discipline. JAMES HARDING is Professor of English at the University of Mary Washington, USA. He is a former editor of 'Theatre Survey', and the author of 'Cutting Performances: Collage Events, Feminist Artists, and the American Avant-Garde 'and 'Adorno and a Writing of the Ruins: Essays on Anglo-American Literature andCulture'. He is currently finishing a new monograph entitled 'Decentering theEdge: Critical Theories of Avant-Garde Performance'. CINDY ROSENTHAL is Professor of Drama and Dance and Director of Women's Studies at Hofstra University.She co-edited Restaging the Sixties: Radical Theatres and their Legacies (University of Michigan, 2006) with James Harding and Living on Third Street: Plays of the Living Theatre 1989-1992 (Autonomedia, 2008) with Hanon Reznikov. Current projects include Ellen Stewart Presents: Posters and Chronicles from the Archives of La Mama Experimental Theatre, a monograph analyzing Ellen Stewart's life and work through oral histories and poster art (forthcoming, Universityof Michigan Press). Her work is also published in Theatre Journal, TDR and Women in Performance. She is a founding member of the Bread Loaf Acting Ensemblein Middlebury, Vermont. INDICE: List of Illustrations - Series Preface - Acknowledgements - Notes on Contributors - Introduction - The Rise of Performance Studies: An Introduction; 'J.Harding' &' C.Rosenthal' - PART I: PERFORMANCE/THEATRE/STUDIES - Performance Studies and the Enhancement of Theatre Studies; 'M.Carlson' - In Defence of the String Quartet: An Open Letter to Richard Schechner'; S.Bottoms' - Experimenting with an Unfinished Discipline: Richard Schechner, the Avant-Garde and Performance Studies; 'J.Harding' &' C.Rosenthal' - PART II: PERFORMANCE STUDIES GENEALOGIES - Wayang Studies?; 'P.Rae' - Today I am a Field: PerformanceStudies Comes of Age'; H.Bial ' - Richard Schechner and Performance Studies in China;' P.Yongwen '& 'Y.Jiancun' - Australian Performance Studies MarginallyOff Centre; 'P.Eckersall' - PART III: WORKING WITH RICHARD - Reactuals: From Personal to Critical and Back; 'R.Schneider' - Fanning the Flames: Richard Schechner's TDR; 'M.Sandford - 'Liminal Richard: Approaches to Performance Studies;' J.Emigh ' - The Broadest Spectrum of Pluralities: Performance Studies, Theatre Practices, Theatre Histories, and Beyond; 'P.Zarrilli - 'PART IV: PRACTICING PERFORMANCE: SCHECHNER AMONG THE PERFORMERS. - Richard Schechner; 'J.Malina' - Interview; 'J.MacIntosh - 'Interview;' E.LeCompte - 'For Richard;' A.D.Smith - 'Performing Against the Backdrop of the War on Terror;' G.Gomez-Pena' - PART V: ENGAGING DIALOGUE: SCHECHNER AS CRITICAL INTERLOCUTOR - Trauma as Durational Performance; 'D.Taylor' - Medical Clowning and Performance Theory;' A.Citron' - Restored Restored Behavior or the Emperor of California Roll: 1989-90Japanese Imperial Rites of Funeral and Enthronement; 'T.Yuichiro' - 'Deep Play, Dark Play': Framing the Limit(less);' J.Roach' - Index -

• ISBN: 978-0-230-24291-3
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 312
• Fecha Publicación: 11/05/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés