The Sage Handbook of Performance Studies
D. Soyini Madison and Judith Hamera
The SAGE Handbook of Performance Studies brings together, in a single, summarizing volume, reviews of the major research in performance studies and identifies directions for further investigation. The Handbook serves scholars and students across the disciplines by delineating the scope of the field, the critical and interpretive methods used, and the theoretical and ethical presumptions that guide work in this exciting and growing area.
Key Features:
- Includes sections on performance and history, performance and literature, performance and pedagogy, theory and performance, politics and performance, performance and ethnography explore the wide range of perspectives and work being done in performance studies
- Summarizes key theoretical and methodological challenges across the field and provides connections with other bodies of research that will likely advance further work in the discipline
- Engages performance as a way to open -- and thus interrogate and re-imagine -- social, communicative practice, technologies of representation, and theoretical perspectives on identity, culture, and history
- Contains balanced coverage of issues of enduring interest as well as those currently flourishing in the field
- ISBN: 0761929312
- ISBN-13: 9780761929314
- Editors : D. Soyini Madison and Judith Hamera
- Language : English
- Format:
Hardcover
- Publication Date: 1/1/2006
- Publisher Imprint: Sage Publications
- Price ($AUD): $205.95
- Usual Dispatch Time: 7 - 10 days
- Please note that all prices are in Australian dollars
- Some titles may be subject to availability