The Future of Ritual: Writings on Culture and Performance

A brilliant examination of cultural expression and communal action, The Future of Ritual asks pertinent questions about art, theatre and the changing meaning of 'culture' in today's intercultural world.

Schechner, Richard

Religion & Spirituality

Routledge

Performance Studies: An Introduction

This important new introductory textbook by a prime mover in the emergent field of Performance Studies is a defining moment for the discipline. It provides a lively and accessible overview of the full range of performance for undergraduates at all levels and beginning graduate students in performance studies, theatre, performing arts and cultural studies.

Humor & Entertainment

The publication of Performance Studies: An Introduction was a defining moment for the field. Richard Schechner's pioneering textbook provides a lively and accessible overview of the full range of performance for undergraduates at all levels and beginning graduate students in performance studies, theatre, performing arts, and cultural studies. Among the topics discussed are the performing arts and popular entertainments, rituals, play and games, and the performances of everyday life. Supporting examples and ideas are drawn from the social sciences, performing arts, poststructuralism, ritual theory, ethology, philosophy, and aesthetics.
This third edition is accompanied by an all-new companion website curated by a dedicated media editor, with the following resources for instructors and students:
<ul>
<li>Interactive glossary </li>
<li>Multiple choice questions</li>
<li>Powerpoint Slides. </li>
<li>Videos</li>
<li>Website links for further study </li>
<li>Tutorials on specific skills within Performance Studies</li>
<li>Sample Discussion Questions</li>
<li>Exercises and Activities</li>
<li>Sample Syllabi</li>
</ul>
The book itself has also been revised, with 25 new extracts and biographies, up-to-date coverage of global and intercultural performances, and further exploration of the growing international presence of Performance Studies as a discipline.
Performance Studies is the definitive overview for undergraduates, with primary extracts, student activities, key biographies and over 200 images of global performance.

Performance Theory (Routledge Classics)

Few have had quite as much impact in both the academy and in the world of theatre production as Richard Schechner. For more than four decades his work has challenged conventional definitions of theatre, ritual and performance. When this seminal collection first appeared, Schechner's approach was not only novel, it was revolutionary: drama is not just something that occurs on stage, but something that happens in everyday life, full of meaning, and on many different levels. Within these pages he examines the connections between Western and non-Western cultures, theatre and dance, anthropology, ritual, performance in everyday life, rites of passage, play, psychotherapy and shamanism.

In this second edition, the author opens with a discussion of important developments in the discipline. His closing chapter, 'Global and Intercultural Performance', is completely rewritten in light of the post-9/11 world. Fully revised chapters with new examples, biographies and source material provide a lively, easily accessible overview of the full range of performance for undergraduates at all levels in performance studies, theatre, performing arts and cultural studies. Among the topics discussed are the performing arts and popular entertainments, rituals, play and games as well as the performances of everyday life. Supporting examples and ideas are drawn from the social sciences, performing arts, post-structuralism, ritual theory, ethology, philosophy and aesthetics. User-friendly, with a special text design, Performance Studies: An Introduction also includes the following features: <ul>
<li>numerous extracts from primary sources giving alternative voices and viewpoints</li> <li>biographies of key thinkers</li> <li>student activities to stimulate fieldwork, classroom exercises and discussion</li> <li>key reading lists for each chapter</li> <li>twenty line drawings and 202 photographs drawn from private and public collections around the world.</li>
</ul>

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

Performance Studies, An Introduction, Second Edition

Richard Schechner is a pioneer of Performance Studies. A scholar, theatre director, editor, and playwright he is University Professor of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and Editor of TDR: The Journal of Performance Studies. He is the author of Public Domain (1969), Environmental Theater (1973), The End of Humanism (1982), Performance Theory (2003, Routledge), Between Theater and Anthropology (1985), The Future of Ritual (1993, Routledge), and Over, Under, and Around: Essays on Performance and Culture (2004). His books have been translated into French, Spanish, Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Serbo-Croat, German, Italian, Hungarian, Bulgarian and Polish. He is the general editor of the Worlds of Performance series published by Routledge and the co-editor of the Enactments series published by Seagull Books. Sara Brady is Assistant Professor at Bronx Community College of the City University of New York (CUNY). She is author of Performance, Politics and the War on Terror (2012).

First Published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &amp; Francis, an informa company.

Performance Theory

The field of performance studies covers all kinds of performance behavior in all contexts. This volume investigates performance behavior in a variety of circumstances and cultures. The contributors consider such issues as the relationship between training and the finished performance; whether performance behavior is universal or culturally specific; and the relationships among ritual and aesthetics, popular entertainment and religion, and sports and theater and dance.

Case Studies in Neuroanesthesia and Neurocritical Care (Case Studies in Neurology)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Cambridge University Press

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The Future of Ritual: Writings on Culture and Performance

Performance Studies: An Introduction

Performance Studies: An Introduction

Performance Theory (Routledge Classics)

Performance Studies: An Introduction

Performance Studies, An Introduction, Second Edition

Performance Studies: An Introduction

Performance Studies: An Introduction

Performance Theory

Case Studies in Neuroanesthesia and Neurocritical Care (Case Studies in Neurology)