120 Pages
by
Routledge
120 Pages
by
Routledge
120 Pages
by
Routledge
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Lively yet intriguing, The Body in Performance is a varied collection of essays about this much-discussed area. Posing the question "Why this current preoccupation with the performed body?" the collection of specially commissioned essays from both academics and practitioners - in some cases one and the same person - considers such cutting edge topics as the abject body and performance,... Read more
Introduction, Patrick Campbell; Chapter 1 Minding the Matter of Representation: Staging the Body (Politic), Helen Spackman; Chapter 2 On Taking the Blind in Hand, Rebecca Schneider; Chapter 3 The Use and Abuse of the Female Body in Performance Art, Imogen Ashby; Chapter 4 Censoring the Body: Whores, Goddesses and Annie Sprinkle, Patrick Campbell; Chapter 5 Abject Identities and Fluid Performances: Theorizing the Leaking Body, David Harradine; Chapter 6 Everytime You Go Away … You Take a Piece of Me with You, Steve Harper; Chapter 7 “The Girl Who Lost Her Voice”, Joan Lipkin;
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Edited by Campbell, Patrick
