Performance: A Critical Introduction

Performance: A Critical Introduction
ISBN-10
1136498656
ISBN-13
9781136498657
Series
Performance
Category
Performing Arts
Pages
289
Language
English
Published
2013-12-16
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Marvin Carlson

Description

This book provides an overview of the modern concept of performance and its development in various related fields; including the development of performance art since the 1960s, the relationship between performance, postmodernism, the politics of identity and current cultural studies, and the recent theoretical developments in the study of performance in the fields of anthropology, psychoanalysis, linguistics and technology.

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