The Rise of Performance Studies: Rethinking Richard Schechner's Broad Spectrum [Hardcover]

Few individuals have positioned their work more controversially or consequently than Richard Schechner within the pivotal debates that define Performance Studies. The Rise of Performance Studies is the first collection of essays to critically examine the profound contributions that?Schechner has made to Performance Studies as a discipline.List of Illustrations Series Preface Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction The Rise of Performance Studies: An Introduction; J.Harding ?& C.Rosenthal PART I: PERFORMANCE/THEATRE/STUDIES Performance Studies and the Enhancement of Theatre Studies; M.Carlson In Defence of the String Quartet: An Open Letter to Richard Schechner ; S.Bottoms Experimenting with an Unfinished Discipline: Richard Schechner, the Avant-Garde and Performance Studies;? J.Harding & ?C.Rosenthal PART II: PERFORMANCE STUDIES GENEALOGIES Wayang Studies?; P.Rae Today I am a Field: Performance Studies Comes of Age ; H.Bial Richard Schechner and Performance Studies in China; P.Yongwen & Y.Jiancun Australian Performance Studies Marginally Off Centre; P.Eckersall PART III: WORKING WITH RICHARD Reactuals: From Personal to Critical and Back; R.Schneider Fanning the Flames: Richard Schechner's TDR; M.Sandford Liminal Richard: Approaches to Performance Studies; J.Emigh The Broadest Spectrum of Pluralities: Performance Studies, Theatre Practices, Theatre Histories, and Beyond; P.Zarrilli PART IV: PRACTICING PERFORMANCE: SCHECHNER AMONG THE PERFORMERS. Richard Schechner; J.Malina Interview; J.MacIntosh Interview; E.LeCompte For Richard; A.D.Smith Performing Against the Backdrop of the War on Terror; G.Gomez-Pena PART V: ENGAGING DIALOGUE: SCHECHNER AS CRITICAL INTERLOCUTOR Trauma as Durational Performance; D.Taylor Medical Clowning and Performance Theory; A.Citron Restored Restored Behavior or the Emperor of California Roll: 1989-90 Japanese Imperial Rites of Funeral and Enthronement; T.Yuichiro 'Deep Play, Dark Play': Framing the Limit(less); J.RoaclS«