The Rise of performance studies rethinking Richard Schechner's broad spectrum - Harding, James Martin 1958-; Rosenthal, Cindy 1954- (Basingstoke, United Kingdom Palgrave Macmillan, 2011)
Introduction: the rise of performance studies / James Harding and Cindy Rosenthal -- pt. 1. Performance/theatre/studies. Performance studies and the enhancement of theatre studies / Marvin Carlson -- In defense of the string quartet: an open letter to Richard Schechner / Stephen Bottoms -- Experimenting with an unfinished discipline: Richard Schechner, the avant-garde, and performance studies / James M. Harding and Cindy Rosenthal -- pt. 2. Performance studies genealogies. Wayang studies? / Paul Rae -- Today I am a field: performance studies comes of age / Henry Bial -- Richard Schechner and performance studies in China / Yu Jiancun and Peng Yongwen -- Australian performance studies marginally off centre / Peter Eckersall -- pt. 3. Working with Richard. Reactuals: from personal to critical and back / Rebecca Schneider -- Fanning the flames: Richard Schechner's TDR / Mariellen R. Sandford -- Liminal Richard: approaches to performance studies / John Emigh -- The broadest spectrum of pluralities: performance studies, theatre practices, theatre histories, and beyond / Phillip Zarrilli -- pt. 4. Practicing performance: Schechner among the performers. Richard Schechner / Judith Malina -- Joan MacIntosh: interview, July 2008 / Cindy Rosenthal -- Elizabeth LeCompte: interview, June 2008 / Cindy Rosenthal -- For Richard / Anna Deavere Smith -- Performing against the backdrop of the War on Terror / Guillermo Gâomez-Peäna -- pt. 5. Engaging dialogue: Schechner as critical interlocutor. Trauma as durational performance / Diana Taylor -- Medical clowning and performance theory / Atay Citron -- Restored restored behavior or the emperor of California roll: 1989-90 Japanese imperial rites of funeral and enthronement / Takahashi Yuichiro -- "Deep play, dark play": framing the limit(less) / Joseph Roach.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Schechner, Richard -- 1934- -- Criticism and interpretation; Theater -- Anthropological aspects; Performing arts