Theories of Performance

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Chapter 1: Introducing Theories of Theory in Perspective: Can You See the Forest for the Trees? What Is Theory? Theory Questions: What? Why? How? Kinds of Theory Questions Assumptions about How Language Operates in Theory Two Models of Communication as a Communicative Form Assumptions about Performance: Mimesis, Poiesis, and Kinesis as a Key Term Definitions of Claims about Performance: Constitutive, Epistemic, and Critical Rethinking Theory and Chapter 2: Constituting Theory in Perspective: What Makes a Performance? The Nature of Constituting through Framing Constituting the Frame through Keying Constituting through the Performer Constituting through Audience Rethinking Chapter 3: Performing Texts Theory in Perspective: What Is a Text? Humans and Symbol Use: Me Later. OK? From Orality to the Page to the Screen Interpreting the World as Text When Meets Drama, Script, Theater, and Assumptions about Texts: Canon, Textuality, and Materiality Interpreting Texts Versus Rethinking Texts Chapter 4: Performing Drama Theory in Perspective: How Is the World a Stage? The Drama of a Roller Coaster Ride Reigning Metaphor: Life as Drama What Is Aristotelian Drama? Audience and Dramatic Form Kenneth Burke's Dramatism: Life Is Drama Performing Tragic and Comic Attitudes From Dramatism to Social Drama Analyzing Social Dramas Social Drama: Raw Material for Performances Rethinking Drama Chapter 5: Performing Culture Theory in Perspective: How Do Cultures Perform? What Is Culture? Approaches to Studying Culture From Studying to Theorizing Movement and Play Rites of Passage: Moving through Culture Homo Ludens/Playing Man Characteristics of Ritual Rituals Are Performed From Great Tradition to Cultural The Performance Turn in Study of Culture Performing History Performing Others Rethinking Culture Chapter 6: Performing Social Roles Theory in Perspective: Who Am I? Don't Play Games with Me! What's Wrong? What's Right? Teams: Performing Together Regions: Performing Spaces When Good Performances Go Bad Impression Management Misrepresentation Role Distance and Discrepant Roles Stigmas and Spoiled Identities Passing Genders and Races Performing Disability Rethinking Social Roles Chapter 7: Performing Identity Theory in Perspective: How Am I a Subject? Do Social Roles Assume a Foundational Self? Performativity's Rejections and Projects Performativity Project 1: Identity Constitution as Material and Historical Performativity Project 2: A Strategy for Identity Critique From Philosophy to Speech Act to Laws Performativity Project 3: A Political Practice of Identity Rethinking Identity Chapter 8: Performing Resistance Chapter 8: Performing Resistance Theory in Perspective: How Can Change the World? From Aristotle to Postmodernism Bertolt Brecht on Performing Resistance Alienation Effects of Epic Theater Brechtian Techniques as Critical Lenses From Brecht to Boal Why Do People Take to the Streets? Models of Protest Public Events through an Aristotelian Lens Carnival and Protest From Traditional to Radical Dramaturgy Analyzing Protest Events as Performances The Body Politic: How Do Bodies Intervene? Resistance in Everyday Life: Foucault's Productive Power Resistance in Everyday Life: de Certeau's Strategies and Tactics Rethinking Resistance Chapter 9: Performing Technologies Chapter 9: Performing Technology Theory in Perspective: What Exists? Caveat Emptor: Buyer Beware of Old and New What Is Technology? Extending Human Bodies and Powers From Deus ex Machina to Flash Mobs: Extending, Enabling, and Accessing Presence: An Ontology Six Types of Theatrical Presence Losing the Aura of Presence Simulacra: There Is No Original Cyborg Bodies: Human and Machine Performing Cyborgs Musical Performance: Is it Live or Is It Memorex? Interactivity: From Poke and See, Cyberpoetry, to Computer Art Environments Reach Out and Perform Someone: Five Kinds of Mediated Presence Rethinking Technologies References

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