Opening acts [electronic resource] : performance in/as communication and cultural studies / Judith Hamera, editor
- Published:
- Thousand oaks, [Calif.] ; London : SAGE, [2006]
- Copyright Date:
- ©2006
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 280 pages)
- Additional Creators:
- Hamera, Judith
Access Online
- SAGE knowledge: ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Introduction : opening opening acts / Judith Hamera -- 1.Becoming other-wise : conversational performance and the politics of experience / Leonard Clyde Hawes -- 2.Telling twisted tales : owning place, owning culture in ethnographic research / Bryant Keith Alexander -- 3.Bridging haunted places : performance and the production of Mostar / Sonja Arsham Kuftinec -- 4.Looking for Stonewall's arm : tourist performance as research method / Michael S. Bowman -- 5.Rethinking elocution : the trope of the talking book and other figures of speech / Dwight Conquergood -- 6.Diverging paths in performance genealogies / Ruth Laurion Bowman -- 7.The mechanical bride of Yonville-l'Abbaye (batteries not included) : remapping the canonical landmark / Paul Edwards.
- Summary:
- 'Opening Acts' offers new ways to analyze communication & culture through performance, offering cutting edge readings of everyday life, space, history, & the intersections of all three using a critical performance-based approach.
- Subject(s):
- ISBN:
- 9781452233079 (ebook)
- Audience Notes:
- Specialized.
- Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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