Rethinking Roland Barthes Through Performance
Rethinking Roland Barthes Through Performance

Author: Harry Robert Wilson

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2023-05-18

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 135033085X

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Through a series of reflections from internationally renowned performance-makers and contextualising essays from leading theatre and performance scholars, this is the first book to map the influence of Roland Barthes on performance. The contributions are framed through Barthes's notion of The Neutral – the suspension of binary choice that offers a welcome antidote to the political deadlock of our present moment. They cover the breadth of Barthes's work from Mythologies (1957) to 'The Death of the Author' (1967), A Lover's Discourse (1977), Camera Lucida (1980), to the more recently available lecture courses at the Collège de France. Together, they capture and rethink a range of Barthes's preoccupations, from his early writing on myths and meaning to personal reflections on love, loss and desire, and interrogate the intersections between Barthes's work and contemporary theatre and performance. This book invites readers to approach Barthes's writing from a breadth of creative-critical perspectives, to become more aware of the importance of his late thought for thinking through a range of dramaturgical forms, and to become more familiar with the work of internationally significant performance practitioners.

Performance Degree Zero
Performance Degree Zero

Author: Timothy Scheie

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 9780802090713

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Throughout his career, Roland Barthes (1915-1980) had a complex and often uneasy relationship with theatre and performance. In Performance Degree Zero, Timothy Scheie argues that Barthes's body of work must be considered a lifelong engagement with theatre. Exploring his changing critical methodologies, Scheie provides a new understanding of the rapid shifts in critical modes Barthes traverses, from a Sartrean Marxism in the 1950s, through semiology, to French post-structuralism and the mournful introspection of his later years. The theatrical figure illuminates Barthes's accounts of the sign, the text, the body, homosexuality, love, the voice, photography, and other important and contested terms of his thought. "Performance Degree Zero"offers the first comprehensive account of Barthes's lifelong engagement with theatre and performance.

A Pathognomy of Performance
A Pathognomy of Performance

Author: S. Bayly

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2011-02-08

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0230306934

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Exploring the themes of the event, ephemerality and democracy that mark the encounter between performance and philosophy, this original study elaborates fresh perspectives on the experiences of undoing, fiasco and disaster that shadow both the both stage and everyday life.

Investments and Portfolio Performance
Investments and Portfolio Performance

Author: Edwin J. Elton

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 9814335401

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This book contains the recent contributions of Edwin J. Elton and Martin J. Gruber to the field of investments. All of the articles in this book have been published in the leading finance and economic journals. Sixteen of the twenty articles have been published in the last ten years. This book supplements the earlier contributions of the editors published by MIT Press in 1999.

Performance of Absence in Theatre, Performance and Visual Art
Performance of Absence in Theatre, Performance and Visual Art

Author: Sylwia Dobkowska

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-12-30

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 1000519562

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This research project investigates the concepts of absence across the disciplines of theatre, visual art, and performance. Absence in the centre of an ideology frees the reader from the dominant meaning. The book encourages active engagement with theatre theory and performances. Reconsideration of theories and experiences changes the way we engage with performances, as well as social relations and traditions outside of theatre. Sylwia Dobkowska examines and theorises absence and presence through theatre, performance, and visual arts practices. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of theatre, visual art, and philosophy.

Multimedia Performance
Multimedia Performance

Author: Rosemary Klich

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2011-12-02

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 1350315885

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How do performers and artists use media technologies to create live events? How have developments in audio-visual technology changed the relationship between the spectator and the performer? How can performance respond to the technology-saturated consciousness of contemporary culture? What are the key concepts and terms needed to understand multimedia performance? Multimedia Performance provides a comprehensive overview of the development, theory and definitive characteristics of this rapidly developing and popular area of practice. Drawing on case studies from across a wide range of contemporary performance, the book introduces key artists, companies and debates. Klich and Scheer describe new and emergent forms including video performance, digital theatre, interactive dramaturgies and immersive environments, presenting an up-to-date analysis of the evolving relationship between technology and aesthetics in contemporary performance culture. Exploring the different ways in which technology can activate new aesthetic potentials and audience experiences, Multimedia Performance demonstrates the vital role of multimedia technologies in contemporary theatre practice. Supported by illustrations, media theory and textboxes, this is important reading for anyone interested in questions of the live and the mediated aspects of performance, and essential reading for students of theatre and performance.

Performance and Performativity in Contemporary Indian Fiction in English
Performance and Performativity in Contemporary Indian Fiction in English

Author: Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru

Publisher: Hotei Publishing

Published: 2015-02-04

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 9004292608

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This book starts with a consideration of a 1997 issue of the New Yorker that celebrated fifty years of Indian independence, and goes on to explore the development of a pattern of performance and performativity in contemporary Indian fiction in English (Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy and Vikram Chandra). Such fiction, which constructs identity through performative acts, is built around a nomadic understanding of the self and implies an evolution of narrative language towards performativity whereby the text itself becomes nomadic. A comparison with theatrical performance (Peter Brook’s Mahabharata and Girish Karnad’s ‘theatre of roots’) serves to support the argument that in both theatre and fiction the concepts of performance and performativity transform classical Indian mythic poetics. In the mythic symbiosis of performance and storytelling in Indian tradition within a cyclical pattern of estrangement from and return to the motherland and/or its traditions, myth becomes a liberating space of consciousness, where rigid categories and boundaries are transcended.

Theory for Performance Studies
Theory for Performance Studies

Author: Philip Auslander

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 0415974526

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Theory for Performance Studies: A Student's Guideis a clear and concise handbook to the key connections between performance studies and critical theory since the 1960s. Philip Auslander looks at the way the concept of performance has been engaged across a number of disciplines. Beginning with four foundational figures – Freud, Marz, Nietzsche and Saussure – Auslander goes on to provide guided introductions to the major theoretical thinkers of the past century, from Althusser to Zizek. Each entry offers biographical, theoretical, and bibliographical information along with a discussion of each figure's relevance to theatre and performance studies and suggestions for future research. Brisk, thoughtful, and engaging, this is an essential first volume for anyone at work in theatre and performance studies today. Adapted from Theory for Religious Studies, by William E. Deal and Timothy K. Beal.

AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF AUDIT REPORTING: FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE AND PERCEPTIONS OF STAKEHOLDERS IN AN EMERGING MARKET, TURKEY
AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF AUDIT REPORTING: FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE AND PERCEPTIONS OF STAKEHOLDERS IN AN EMERGING MARKET, TURKEY

Author: Prof. Dr. İREM NUHOĞLU

Publisher: YALIN YAYINCILIK

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 135

ISBN-13: 9944313459

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My primary reason for writing this book is to produce a book that explores and defines the relationship of the financial strength of the manufacturing companies in Turkey with the type of audit opinion letters. The book includes an extensive literature review about the topic.

Performing Drama/dramatizing Performance
Performing Drama/dramatizing Performance

Author: Michael Vanden Heuvel

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 9780472082483

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Examines how the intertwining paths of avant-garde theater and mainstream drama work to produce provocative new forms