| Powerful Bodies: Performance in French Cultural Studies Contributor(s): Best, Victoria (Editor), Collier, Peter (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3906762564 ISBN-13: 9783906762562 Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis OUR PRICE: $53.15 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1999 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - French - Drama - Performing Arts | Film - General |
| Dewey: 840.900 |
| LCCN: 99040046 |
| Series: Modern French Identities, |
| Physical Information: 220 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - French - Cultural Region - Western Europe |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In the first major overview of the latest and most challenging development in French cultural studies, this volume approaches the field of performance theory in its diverse applications. At the end of the twentieth century performance has become a highly significant theoretical framework that offers a new perspective on identity formation, the relationship of self and other, and the transformational properties of language. Inspired by the ideas of French and Anglo-American thinkers, including J.L. Austin, Roland Barthes, Pierre Bourdieu, Judith Butler, Helene Cixous, Erving Goffman, and Julia Kristeva, the authors engage with performance studies in four major areas of current concern: the body, the image, language and politics. In a wide-ranging series of new theoretical and applied readings, they apply their insights to the Commedia dell'Arte, the cinema of Kieslowski, the writings of Duras, Genet, Robbe-Grillet and Bernard Noel, as well as the performative artistry of figures as diverse as Orlan and de Gaulle. This book makes an invaluable contribution to the analysis of both literary and film theory." |