Performance Works – serie
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36 produkter
Muscle Works
Physical Culture and the Performance of Masculinity
Häftad, 2024
403 kr
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Men’s fitness as a performance—from nineteenth-century theatrical exhibitions to health and wellness practices todayThis book recounts the story of fitness culture from its beginnings as spectacles of strongmen, weightlifters, acrobats, and wrestlers to its legitimization in the twentieth-century …
Theatricalists
Making Politics Appear
Häftad, 2024
398 kr
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Examines how the politics of the theatre can illuminate the theatricality of politics Theatricality is often dismissed as a distraction from “real” politics, as when cynical political gestures are derided as “pure theatre” or “only theatre.” But the artists and theater companies discussed in this …
Drop Dead
Performance in Crisis, 1970s New York
Häftad, 2016
375 kr
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Hillary Miller’s Drop Dead: Performance in Crisis, 1970s New York offers a fascinating and comprehensive exploration of how the city’s financial crisis shaped theater and performance practices in this turbulent decade and beyond.New York City’s performing arts community suffered greatly from a …
From Scenarios to Networks
Performing the Intercultural in Colonial Mexico
Inbunden, 2016
1177 kr
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In this innovative study, Leo Cabranes-Grant analyzes four intercultural events in the Viceroyalty of New Spain that took place between 1566 and 1690. Rather than relying on racial labels to describe alterations of identity, Cabranes-Grant focuses on experimentation, rehearsal, and the interaction …
Encounters on Contested Lands
Indigenous Performances of Sovereignty and Nationhood in Québec
Häftad, 2018
604 kr
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In Encounters on Contested Lands, Julie Burelle employs a performance studies lens to examine how instances of Indigenous self-representation in Québec challenge the national and identity discourses of the French Québécois de souche—the French-speaking descendants of white European settlers who …
Encounters on Contested Lands
Indigenous Performances of Sovereignty and Nationhood in Québec
Inbunden, 2018
1177 kr
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In Encounters on Contested Lands, Julie Burelle employs a performance studies lens to examine how instances of Indigenous self-representation in Québec challenge the national and identity discourses of the French Québécois de souche—the French-speaking descendants of white European settlers who …
Transgenerational Remembrance
Performance and the Asia-Pacific War in Contemporary Japan
Häftad, 2020
398 kr
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Transgenerational Remembrance
Performance and the Asia-Pacific War in Contemporary Japan
Inbunden, 2020
1177 kr
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In Transgenerational Remembrance, Jessica Nakamura investigates the role of artistic production in the commemoration and memorialization of the Asia-Pacific War (1931–1945) in Japan since 1989. During this time, survivors of Japanese aggression and imperialism, previously silent about their …
Theaters of Citizenship
Aesthetics and Politics of Avant-Garde Performance in Egypt
Av Sonali Pahwa
Häftad, 2020
398 kr
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Theaters of Citizenship investigates independent Egyptian performance practices from 2004 to 2014 to demonstrate how young dramatists staged new narratives of citizenship outside of state institutions, exploring rights claims and enacting generational identity. Using historiography, ethnography, …
Theaters of Citizenship
Aesthetics and Politics of Avant-Garde Performance in Egypt
Av Sonali Pahwa
Inbunden, 2020
1177 kr
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Theaters of Citizenship investigates independent Egyptian performance practices from 2004 to 2014 to demonstrate how young dramatists staged new narratives of citizenship outside of state institutions, exploring rights claims and enacting generational identity. Using historiography, ethnography, …
Institutional Theatrics
Performing Arts Policy in Post-Wall Berlin
Häftad, 2021
402 kr
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Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, political and economic agendas in the reunified German capital have worked to dismantle long-standing traditions of state-subsidized theater even as the city has redefined itself as a global arts epicenter. Institutional Theatrics charts the ways theater artists …
Institutional Theatrics
Performing Arts Policy in Post-Wall Berlin
Inbunden, 2021
1177 kr
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Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, political and economic agendas in the reunified German capital have worked to dismantle long-standing traditions of state-subsidized theater even as the city has redefined itself as a global arts epicenter. Institutional Theatrics charts the ways theater artists …
Senegalese Stagecraft
Decolonizing Theater-Making in Francophone Africa
Häftad, 2021
398 kr
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Senegalese Stagecraft explores the theatrical stage in Senegal as a site of poetic expression, political activism, and community engagement. In their responses to the country’s colonial heritage, as well as through their innovations on the craft of theater-making, Senegalese performers have created …
Senegalese Stagecraft
Decolonizing Theater-Making in Francophone Africa
Inbunden, 2021
1177 kr
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Senegalese Stagecraft explores the theatrical stage in Senegal as a site of poetic expression, political activism, and community engagement. In their responses to the country’s colonial heritage, as well as through their innovations on the craft of theater-making, Senegalese performers have created …
Brutal Beauty
Aesthetics and Aspiration in Urban India
Av Jisha Menon
Häftad, 2021
427 kr
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Brutal Beauty: Aesthetics and Aspiration in Urban India follows a postcolonial city as it transforms into a bustling global metropolis after the liberalization of the Indian economy. Taking the once idyllic “garden city” of Bangalore in southern India as its point of departure, the book explores …
Dancing on Violent Ground
Utopia As Dispossession in Euro-American Theater Dance
Häftad, 2021
427 kr
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The politics of theater dance is commonly theorized in relation to bodily freedom, resistance, agitation, or repair. This book questions those utopian imaginaries, arguing that the visions and sensations of canonical Euro-American choreographies carry hidden forms of racial violence, not in the …
Dancing on Violent Ground
Utopia As Dispossession in Euro-American Theater Dance
Inbunden, 2021
1177 kr
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The politics of theater dance is commonly theorized in relation to bodily freedom, resistance, agitation, or repair. This book questions those utopian imaginaries, arguing that the visions and sensations of canonical Euro-American choreographies carry hidden forms of racial violence, not in the …
Back Stages
Essays Across Art, Performance, and Public Life
Häftad, 2022
431 kr
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Shannon Jackson explores a range of disciplinary, institutional, and political puzzles that engage the social and aesthetic practice of performance in this collection of twenty essential essays spanning her career. Back Stages starts by considering the historical connection between performance …
Back Stages
Essays Across Art, Performance, and Public Life
Inbunden, 2022
1177 kr
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Shannon Jackson explores a range of disciplinary, institutional, and political puzzles that engage the social and aesthetic practice of performance in this collection of twenty essential essays spanning her career. Back Stages starts by considering the historical connection between performance …
Theatricality of the Closet
Fashion, Performance, and Subjectivity Between Victorian Britain and Meiji Japan
Häftad, 2023
427 kr
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A richly illustrated exploration of fashion and its capacity for generating controversy and constructing social and individual identitiesClothing matters. This basic axiom is both common sense and, in another way, radical. It is from this starting point that Michelle Liu Carriger elucidates the …
Restaging the Future
Neoliberalization, Theater, and Performance in Britain
Av Louise Owen
Häftad, 2023
398 kr
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An examination of neoliberal ideology’s ascendance in 1990s and 2000s British politics and society through its effect on state-supported performance practicesPost-Thatcher, British cultural politics were shaped by the government’s use of the arts in service of its own social and economic agenda. …
Theater of Capital
Modern Drama and Economic Life
Häftad, 2024
445 kr
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Reads canonical works of modern drama in relation to the economic ideas of their eraEmerging amid the turbulent rise of market finance and wider socioeconomic changes, modern drama enacted vital critiques of art and life under capitalism. Alisa Zhulina shows how fin-de-siÈcle playwrights such as …
Transoceanic Blackface
Empire, Race, Performance
Häftad, 2024
403 kr
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A sweeping history of racialized performance across the Anglophone imperial world from the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuryA material history of racialized performance throughout the Anglophone imperial world, Transoceanic Blackface: Empire, Race, Performance revises prevailing …
Performing Citizenship in Postdictatorship Chile
Cultural Policy and the Making of Political Dramaturgies
Häftad, 2025
398 kr
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Offering a nuanced understanding of the performing arts' relationship to politics Through careful readings of key political performances in Chile's transition from military dictatorship to neoliberal democracy, Jennifer Joan Thompson examines how the production and aesthetics of theater are …
Performing Citizenship in Postdictatorship Chile
Cultural Policy and the Making of Political Dramaturgies
Inbunden, 2025
1417 kr
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Offering a nuanced understanding of the performing arts' relationship to politics Through careful readings of key political performances in Chile's transition from military dictatorship to neoliberal democracy, Jennifer Joan Thompson examines how the production and aesthetics of theater are …
Intimate Inequalities
Performing Migrant Domestic Work
Häftad, 2025
398 kr
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Mobilizing performance to amplify migrant domestic workers' creative expertise Intimate inequalities exist where the embodied and the everyday rub up against transnational structures of power. Ella Parry-Davies conducted collaborative research with migrant domestic workers from the Philippines …
Intimate Inequalities
Performing Migrant Domestic Work
Inbunden, 2026
1977 kr
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Mobilizing performance to amplify migrant domestic workers' creative expertise Intimate inequalities exist where the embodied and the everyday rub up against transnational structures of power. Ella Parry-Davies conducted collaborative research with migrant domestic workers from the Philippines …
Drop Dead
Performance in Crisis, 1970s New York
Inbunden, 2016
1166 kr
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Hillary Miller’s Drop Dead: Performance in Crisis, 1970s New York offers a fascinating and comprehensive exploration of how the city’s financial crisis shaped theater and performance practices in this turbulent decade and beyond.New York City’s performing arts community suffered greatly from a …
From Scenarios to Networks
Performing the Intercultural in Colonial Mexico
Häftad, 2016
398 kr
Tillfälligt slut
In this innovative study, Leo Cabranes-Grant analyzes four intercultural events in the Viceroyalty of New Spain that took place between 1566 and 1690. Rather than relying on racial labels to describe alterations of identity, Cabranes-Grant focuses on experimentation, rehearsal, and the interaction …
Brutal Beauty
Aesthetics and Aspiration in Urban India
Av Jisha Menon
Inbunden, 2021
1398 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Brutal Beauty: Aesthetics and Aspiration in Urban India follows a postcolonial city as it transforms into a bustling global metropolis after the liberalization of the Indian economy. Taking the once idyllic “garden city” of Bangalore in southern India as its point of departure, the book explores …
