Critical theory and performance /
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| Edition: | Rev. and enl. ed. |
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| Imprint: | Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2007. |
| Description: | xii, 596 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Theater--theory/text/performance |
| Subject: | Theater -- Philosophy. Theater -- Philosophy. |
| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7408666 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Introduction to the First Edition
- Performance Analysis
- Semiotics and Its Heritage
- The Phenomenological Attitude
- Alceste in Hollywood: A Semiotic Reading of The Misanthrope
- Every Transaction Conjures a New Boundary
- Postcolonial Studies
- Performing History's Unsettlement
- What Is to Be Remembered?: Tourism to Ghana's Slave Castle-Dungeons
- For Whom Is the King a King? Issues of Intercultural Production, Perception, and Reception in a Kathakali King Lear
- Critical Race Theory
- Black/face Publics: The Social Bodies of Fraternidad
- Virtual Chinatown and New Racial Formation: Performance of Cantonese Opera in the Bay Area
- Reality
- Theater History and Historiography
- Theater Events and Their Political Contexts: A Problem in the Writing of Theater History
- Representing History: Performing the Columbian Exposition
- Kinesthetic Empathies and the Politics of Compassion
- After Marx
- Shadows of Brecht
- Historicizing the Relations of Theatrical Production
- Brecht and the Contradictory Actor
- Gender and Sexualities
- Mrs. Siddons Looks Back in Anger: Feminist Historiography for Eighteenth-Century British Theater
- Practicing Cultural Disruptions: Gay and Lesbian Representation and Sexuality
- Fe/male Impersonation: The Discourse of Camp
- Not-About-AIDS
- Psychoanalysis
- The Violence of "We": Politicizing Identification
- Staging Sexual Injury: How I Learned to Drive
- Immobile Legs, Stalled Words: Psychoanalysis and Moving Deaths
- Performance Studies
- Invasions Friendly and Unfriendly: The Dramaturgy of Direct Theater
- Performance Theory, Hmong Shamans, and Cultural Politics
- Animal Rites: Performing beyond the Human
- Mediatized Cultures
- Live from Cyberspace, or, I, Was Sitting at My Computer This Guy Appeared He Thought I Was a Bot
- Virtually Yours: Presence, Liveness, Lessness
- Dracula's Daughters: In-Corporating Avatars in Cyberspace
- Contributors
- Index