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The grammar of politics and performance /

"This volume brings together important work at the interstection of politics and performance studies. While the languages of theatre and performance have long been deployed by other disciplines such as psychology (Freud's primal 'scene'), sociology (Goffman's 'backstage...

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Group Author: Rai, Shirin; Reinelt, Janelle G
Published: Routledge,
Publisher Address: London ; New York, NY :
Publication Dates: 2015.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Interventions
Subjects:
Communication in politics > Social aspects
Persuasion Rhetoric > Political aspects
Theater > Political aspects
Performing arts > Political aspects
PERFORMING ARTS / General
POLITICAL SCIENCE / General
POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory
Summary: "This volume brings together important work at the interstection of politics and performance studies. While the languages of theatre and performance have long been deployed by other disciplines such as psychology (Freud's primal 'scene'), sociology (Goffman's 'backstage'), and politics (politicians 'play' to the public, stage debates), this metaphorical attribution has seldom been taken seriously and pursued systematically to discover the actual nature of the relationship between performance as a set of behavioural practices and the forms and the transactions of these other realms"--
Carrier Form: xiv, 253 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780415716505 (hardback) :
0415716500 (hardback)
Index Number: JA85
CLC: D523-39
Call Number: D523-39/G745
Contents: 1. Introduction / Janelle Reinelt and Shirin Rai -- Performing democracy : roles, stages, scripts / John Parkinson -- Performance at the crossroads of citizenship / Janelle Reinelt -- "I am an American" : protesting advertised "Americanness" / Cynthia Weber -- Characterisation and systemic gender violence : the example of laundry and the figure of the mother in Irish culture / Lisa Fitzpatrick -- Theatricality vs. bare life : performance as a vernacular of resistance / Silvija Jestrovic -- Becoming a democratic audience / Alan Finlayson -- Street arts, radical democratic citizenship, and a g

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