Performance: A Critical Introduction

by Marvin Carlson (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1996

  $3.24

  Performance: A Critical Introduction is the first survey to provide an overview of the modern concept of performance and how it has developed in various fields. In a highly accessible style Marvin Carlson introduces the reader to the contested interpretations of performance art as a theatrical activity and to the ways that performance has been understood by ethnographers, anthropologists, linguists and cultural theorists. Some of the topics he discusses include:
  * the evolution of performance art since the 1960s
  * developments of performance as a concept within the various social sciences
  * the relationships between performance, postmodernism and the politics of identity
  For any student of performance studies, visual and performing arts or theatre history, Performance: A Critical Introduction provides a vital insight into the diverse meanings and uses of performance

• Used

  Paperback
  2003

  $3.24

  This comprehensively revised, illustrated edition discusses recent performance work and takes into consideration changes that have taken place since the book's original publication in 1996. Marvin Carlson guides the reader through the contested definition of performance as a theatrical activity and the myriad ways in which performance has been interpreted by ethnographers, anthropologists, linguists, and cultural theorists. Topics covered include:
  *the evolution of performance art since the 1960s
  *the relationship between performance, postmodernism, the politics of identity, and current cultural studies
  *the recent theoretical developments in the study of performance in the fields of anthropology, psychoanalysis, linguistics, and technology.
  With a fully updated bibliography and additional glossary of terms, students of performance studies, visual and performing arts or theatre history will welcome this new version of a classic text.