Opening Acts: Performance in/as Communication and Cultural Studies
Editat de Judith A. Hameraen Limba Engleză Electronic book text – 2 iul 2012
- familiarizes readers with the core elements and commitments of performance-based analysis;
- links performance-based analysis to theoretical and analytical perspectives in communication and cultural studies;
- provides engaging examples of how to use performance as a critical tool to open up communication and culture;
-combines the best features of two classroom formats. Like a reader, it offers a menu of diverse approaches to performance-based analysis. Like a monograph, these approaches are organized into a coherent conceptual and pedagogical frame;
- explicitly links developments in performance theory and methodology to current theories and methodologies in communication and cultural studies;
- a topical organization mirrors those theoretical and methodological concerns most likely to engage students and scholars: how to analyze practices of everyday life, history, space, and intersections of all three.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781452267050
ISBN-10: 1452267057
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Ediția:1
Editura: SAGE Publications
Colecția Sage Publications, Inc
Locul publicării:Thousand Oaks, United States
ISBN-10: 1452267057
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Ediția:1
Editura: SAGE Publications
Colecția Sage Publications, Inc
Locul publicării:Thousand Oaks, United States
Cuprins
Introduction:
Opening
Opening
Acts
-
Judith
Hamera
Section 1: Engaging the Everyday
Introduction - Judith Hamera
1. Becoming Other-Wise: Conversational Performance and the Politics of Experience - Leonard Clyde Hawes
2. Telling Twisted Tales: Owning Place, Owning Culture in Ethnographic Research - Bryant Keith Alexander
Section 2: Animating Locations
Introduction - Judtih Hamera
3. Bridging Haunted Places: Performance and the Production of Mostar - Sonja Arsham Kuftinec
4. Looking for Stonewall's Arm: Tourist Performance as Research Method - Michael S. Bowman
Section 3: Interrogating Histories
Introduction - Judith Hamera
5. Rethinking Elocution: The Trope of the Talking Book and Other Figures of Speech - Dwight Conquergood
6. Diverging Paths in Performance Genealogies - Ruth Laurion Bowman
Section 4: Synthesizing Scholarship
Introduction - Judith Hamera
7. The Mechanical Bride of Yonville-l'Abbaye (Batteries Not Included): Remapping the Canonical Landmark - Paul Edwards
Section 5: Embracing Performances
Introduction - Judith Hamera
8. Performing Theory/Embodied Writing - D. Soyini Madison
About the Editor
About the Contributors
Index
Section 1: Engaging the Everyday
Introduction - Judith Hamera
1. Becoming Other-Wise: Conversational Performance and the Politics of Experience - Leonard Clyde Hawes
2. Telling Twisted Tales: Owning Place, Owning Culture in Ethnographic Research - Bryant Keith Alexander
Section 2: Animating Locations
Introduction - Judtih Hamera
3. Bridging Haunted Places: Performance and the Production of Mostar - Sonja Arsham Kuftinec
4. Looking for Stonewall's Arm: Tourist Performance as Research Method - Michael S. Bowman
Section 3: Interrogating Histories
Introduction - Judith Hamera
5. Rethinking Elocution: The Trope of the Talking Book and Other Figures of Speech - Dwight Conquergood
6. Diverging Paths in Performance Genealogies - Ruth Laurion Bowman
Section 4: Synthesizing Scholarship
Introduction - Judith Hamera
7. The Mechanical Bride of Yonville-l'Abbaye (Batteries Not Included): Remapping the Canonical Landmark - Paul Edwards
Section 5: Embracing Performances
Introduction - Judith Hamera
8. Performing Theory/Embodied Writing - D. Soyini Madison
About the Editor
About the Contributors
Index
Descriere
Opening
Acts:
Performance
in/as
Communication
and
Cultural
Criticism
offers
new,
rigorous
ways
to
analyze
communication
and
culture
through
performance.
Editor
Judith
Hamera,
along
with
a
distinguished
list
of
contributors,
provides
students
with
cutting-edge
readings
of
everyday
life,
space,
history,
and
intersections
of
all
three,
using
a
critical
performance-based
approach.
This
text
makes
three
significant
contributions
to
the
field
-
it
familiarizes
readers
with
the
core
elements
and
commitments
of
performance-based
analysis,
links
performance-based
analysis
to
theoretical
and
analytical
perspectives
in
communication
and
cultural
studies,
and
provides
engaging
examples
of
how
to
use
performance
as
a
critical
tool
to
open
up
communication
and
culture.
offers new, rigorous ways to analyze communication and culture through performance. Editor Judith Hamera, along with a distinguished list of contributors, provides students with cutting-edge readings of everyday life, space, history, and intersections of all three, using a critical performance-based approach. This text makes three significant contributions to the field - it familiarizes readers with the core elements and commitments of performance-based analysis, links performance-based analysis to theoretical and analytical perspectives in communication and cultural studies, and provides engaging examples of how to use performance as a critical tool to open up communication and culture.
offers new, rigorous ways to analyze communication and culture through performance. Editor Judith Hamera, along with a distinguished list of contributors, provides students with cutting-edge readings of everyday life, space, history, and intersections of all three, using a critical performance-based approach. This text makes three significant contributions to the field - it familiarizes readers with the core elements and commitments of performance-based analysis, links performance-based analysis to theoretical and analytical perspectives in communication and cultural studies, and provides engaging examples of how to use performance as a critical tool to open up communication and culture.