| Representation and Identity from Versailles to the Present: The Performing Subject 2007 Edition Contributor(s): Sikes, A. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1403977844 ISBN-13: 9781403977847 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $49.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2007 Annotation: This book investigates the shifting relationship between performance and subjectivity over the course of the Modern era. Each chapter details a different set of performance strategies designed to grant the subject a stable sense of self-identity, and each explores the fallout from the ultimate failure of these strategies to offer the subject a fixed and enduring image of itself. The conclusion examines the implications of this failure for new Postmodern conceptions of subjectivity and poses questions about the use of performance in the self-fashioning of future generations. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Theater - History & Criticism - History | Europe - France - History | Historiography |
| Dewey: 792.09 |
| Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History |
| Physical Information: 0.67" H x 6.18" W x 8.51" (0.79 lbs) 214 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - French |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Sikes traces the shifting role of performance in the fashioning of subjectivity from the Modern to the Postmodern eras. The book joins history and historiography and is grounded in a body of research about varied performance subjects from court dance, ballet, opera, festivals, celebrations, propaganda films, Hollywood movies to reality TV. |