From Acting to Performance: Essays in Modernism and PostmodernismFrom Acting to Performance collects for the first time major essays by performance theorist and critic Philip Auslander. Together these essays provide a survey of the changes in acting and performance during the crucial transition from the ecstatic theatre of the 1960s to the ironic postmodernism of the 1980s. Auslander examines performance genres ranging from theatre and dance to performance art and stand-up comedy. In doing so he discusses an impressive line-up of practitioners including Antonin Artaud, Jerzy Grotowski, Peter Brook, Willem Dafoe, the Wooster Group, Augusto Boal, Kate Bornstein, and Orlan. From Acting to Performance is a must for all students and scholars interested in contemporary theatre and performance. |
Other editions - View all
From Acting to Performance: Essays in Modernism and Postmodernism Philip Auslander Limited preview - 2002 |
From Acting to Performance: Essays in Modernism and Postmodernism Philip Auslander Limited preview - 1997 |
From Acting to Performance: Essays in Modernism and Postmodernism Philip Auslander No preview available - 1997 |
Common terms and phrases
Acconci acting actor archetypal argues Artaud artist audience Auslander avant-garde Barr’s becomes Blau Boal Boal’s body body’s Bornstein Brecht Brook catharsis Chapter character choreographers comedians comic communal concept context Copeau cosmetic surgery critical critique Crucible cultural Dafoe dancer deconstruction defined Derrida describes différance discourse discussion emotional essay experience Fem-Rage female feminist Féral film Foster Fried Fried’s function gender Grotowski Hay’s historical humor idea ideological implies Jameson jokes Kate Bornstein language logocentrism male meaning mediation Miller’s modernism modernist objecthood one’s Orlan paradigm performance theory persona physical plastic surgery play political art political theatre Pontbriand position postmodern dance postmodern performance postmodern political postmodernist practice presence problematic produced psychic recuperation relationship Renaissance representation resistant role Roseanne Barr sexual situation comedy social spect-actor spectator stand-up comedy Stanislavski suggests surgical television Theatre Studies theatrical transsexual visual arts Vito Acconci Willem Dafoe woman women Wooster Group writing