- Hardcover: 304 pages
- Publisher: Routledge (11 April 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0415146208
- ISBN-13: 978-0415146203
- Product Dimensions: 28.8 x 21.9 x 2.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,596,808 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'Richard Schechner's work is crucial to exploring the tricky and sometimes dangerous territories of performance. Not only is he responsible for continually expanding the boundaries of the field but also for demystifying esoteric issues. His work reaches wide constituencies. Through his writings, I always discover new ways of looking at performance, and through performance at the world at large. His thoughts always renew my desire to change the world. - Guillermo Gomez-Pena, performance artist and writer, San Francisco 'This fecund and useful volume sets up lively possibilities for exploring the entire spectrum of behaviors, restored or otherwise that Schechner as scholar, editor, and practitioner, has been sorting out for years
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This important new introductory textbook by a prime mover in the emergent field of Performance Studies is a defining moment for the discipline. It provides a lively and accessible overview of the full range of performance for undergraduates at all levels and beginning graduate students in performance studies, theatre, performing arts and cultural studies. It includes discussion of the performing arts and popular entertainments, rituals, play and games as well as the performances of every day life. Supporting examples and ideas are drawn from the performing arts, anthropology, post-structuralism, ritual theory, ethology, philosophy and aesthetics. The text has been fully developed with input from leading teachers and trialled with students. User-friendly, with a special text design, it also includes the following features: Extracts from primary sources giving alternative voices and viewpoints Biographies of key thinkers 'Things to think about' and 'things to do' to stimulate fieldwork, classroom exercises and discussion Key reading lists for each chapter 20 line drawings and 173 b+w photographs drawn from private and public collections around the world.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
A very exciting book. I trained as a dramatherapist and worked as an outdoor pursuits instructor and performed as a dancer. This book effectively and quite rightly brings all these elements within the scope of one idea. It encompasses performance in sport or in business as easily as it explores getting married as a rite of passage and performance ritual and theatre and acting as sub categories of performance. With most of our everyday activities in virtual or real worlds now witnessed and the re-emergence of reality TV as the new colosseum through which we are all made Nero this will become more than a college course book. A timely publication.
Chapter Headings:- What is performance studies? What is performance? Ritual.
Play. Performativity. Performing. Performance process. Global and intercultural performance.
Chapter Headings:- What is performance studies? What is performance? Ritual.
Play. Performativity. Performing. Performance process. Global and intercultural performance.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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The book is a thorough process of yesterdays and todays stage. It shows many practitioners, old and new, with many developed theories! A must for all theatre students, it is now my bible.
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Where Theatre Studies Needs to Go
16 April 2003
Format:Paperback
This long awaited book by Richard Schechner breaks the traditional boundaries of how theatre is to be studied. He assures us through numerous examples, comments, quotations, and theories how interrelated theatre is with life and life with theatre. To see performance as a part of life and as an extension of it is to see performance with a clarity that has never before been discussed in such depth.
By the end of the book, which is probably more useful as a reference than even as a textbook that students read chapter by chapter (though it does offer great possibilities for creatively integrating in the classroom as it was intended), one has more questions than answers, and that is a good thing, because the questions become more focused and more relevant and more conducive to individual introspection. As a college professor in Theatre, I find that refreshing and valuable.
This is a seminal work, and should certainly be on every theatre practitioner's bookshelf, if not in their hands.
The book contains nudity and language in the examples of performance he gives, so is not suitable for children.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Wait too long but refunded!
12 Feb 2011
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I waited almost 2 weeks and no book, contacted the seller and they did issues a refund. All in all just frustration.
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