Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 184 pages
- Published by: Routledge
- Edition: 1st Edition May 14, 1997
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0415157870
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0415157872
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Book Dimensions:
8.4 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches
- Weighs: 8.5 ounces
Product Description
From Acting to Performance collects for the first time major essays by performance theorist and critic Philip Auslander.
Spanning over a decade, the essays survey the changes in acting and performance that occurred during the transition from the ecstatic theatre of the Vietnam era to the postmodern irony of the 1980s. Starting with the modern acting theories that inspired theatrical experimentalists of the 1960s such as Jerzy Grotowski and Jacques Copeau and ranging to 1990s performance artists and stand-up comics such as Kate Bornstein and Rosanne Barr,
From Acting to Performance provides critical analyses of modernist acting theories. Auslander argues that traditional theatre and contemporary performance studies are united by shared concerns and critical approaches.
About The Author
Philip Auslander is an Associate Professor, School of Literature, Communication, and Culture at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and is Associate Editor for The Drama Review.
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