| Pacific Performances: Theatricality and Cross-Cultural Encounter in the South Seas 2007 Edition Contributor(s): Balme, C. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1403985987 ISBN-13: 9781403985989 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2006 Annotation: Incorporating the very latest approaches to performance studies, this new study by Christopher Balme explores the history of cross-cultural performative encounters in the Pacific from the eighteenth-century to the present. Using the concept of theatricality, it examines both the performance cultures of Pacific peoples as they negotiated the colonial situation and Western theatrical representations. The material investigated ranges from eighteenth-century pantomimes to Broadway plays and musicals; ethnographic spectacles and colonial ceremonies rub shoulders with contemporary tourist theme parks and Samoan stand-up comedy. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Theater - History & Criticism - Literary Criticism |
| Dewey: 792.099 |
| Series: Studies in International Performance |
| Physical Information: 0.74" H x 5.63" W x 8.83" (0.94 lbs) 256 pages |