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Introducing Theories of Performance | |
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Theory in Perspective: Can You See the Forest for the Trees? | |
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What Is Theory? | |
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Theory Questions: What? Why? How? | |
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Kinds of Theory Questions | |
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Assumptions about How Language Operates in Theory | |
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Two Models of Communication | |
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Performance as a Communicative Form | |
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Assumptions about Performance: Mimesis, Poiesis, and Kinesis | |
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Performance as a Key Term | |
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Definitions of Performance | |
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Claims about Performance: Constitutive, Epistemic, and Critical | |
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Rethinking Theory and Performance | |
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Constituting Performance | |
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Theory in Perspective: What Makes a Performance? | |
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The "Nature" of Performance | |
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Constituting Performance through Framing | |
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Constituting the Performance Frame through Keying | |
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Constituting Performance through the Performer | |
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Constituting Performance through Audience | |
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Rethinking Performance | |
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Performing Texts | |
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Theory in Perspective: What Is a Text? | |
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Humans and Symbol Use: Text Me Later. OK? | |
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From Orality to the Page to the Screen | |
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Interpreting the World as "Text" | |
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When Text Meets Performance | |
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Drama, Script, Theater, and Performance | |
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Assumptions about Texts: Canon, Textuality, and Materiality | |
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Interpreting Texts | |
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Text Versus Performance | |
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Rethinking Texts | |
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Performing Drama | |
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Theory in Perspective: How Is the World a Stage? | |
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The Drama of a Roller Coaster Ride | |
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Reigning Metaphor: Life as Drama | |
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What Is Aristotelian Drama? | |
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Audience and Dramatic Form | |
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Kenneth Burke's Dramatism: Life Is Drama | |
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Performing Tragic and Comic Attitudes | |
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From Dramatism to Social Drama | |
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Analyzing Social Dramas | |
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Social Drama: Raw Material for Performances | |
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Rethinking Drama | |
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Performing Culture | |
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Theory in Perspective: How Do Cultures Perform? | |
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What Is Culture? | |
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Approaches to Studying Culture | |
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From Studying "Man" to Theorizing Movement and Play | |
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Rites of Passage: Moving through Culture | |
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Homo Ludens/Playing Man | |
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Characteristics of Ritual | |
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Rituals Are Performed | |
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From Great Tradition to Cultural Performance | |
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The "Performance Turn" in Study of Culture | |
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Performing History | |
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Performing Others | |
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Rethinking Culture | |
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Performing Social Roles | |
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Theory in Perspective: Who Am I? | |
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Don't Play Games with Me! | |
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"What's Wrong?" | |
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"What's Right?" | |
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Teams: Performing Together | |
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Regions: Performing Spaces | |
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When Good Performances Go Bad | |
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Impression Management | |
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Misrepresentation | |
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Role Distance and Discrepant Roles | |
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Stigmas and "Spoiled" Identities | |
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Passing Genders and Races | |
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Performing Disability | |
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Rethinking Social Roles | |
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Performing Identity | |
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Theory in Perspective: How Am I a Subject? | |
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Do Social Roles Assume a Foundational Self? | |
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Performativity's Rejections and Projects | |
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Identity Constitution as Material and Historical | |
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A Strategy for Identity Critique | |
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From Philosophy to Speech Act to Laws | |
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A Political Practice of Identity | |
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Rethinking Identity | |
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Performing Resistance | |
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Theory in Perspective: How Can Performance Change the World? | |
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From Aristotle to Postmodernism | |
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Bertolt Brecht on Performing Resistance | |
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Alienation Effects of Epic Theater | |
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Brechtian Techniques as Critical Lenses | |
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From Brecht to Boal | |
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Why Do People Take to the Streets? Models of Protest | |
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Public Events through an Aristotelian Lens | |
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Carnival and Protest | |
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From Traditional to Radical Dramaturgy | |
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Analyzing Protest Events as Performances | |
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The Body Politic: How Do Bodies Intervene? | |
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Resistance in Everyday Life: Foucault's Productive Power | |
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Resistance in Everyday Life: de Certeau's Strategies and Tactics | |
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Rethinking Resistance | |
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Performing Technologies | |
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Performing Technology | |
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Theory in Perspective: What Exists? | |
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Caveat Emptor: Buyer Beware of Old and New | |
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What Is Technology? Extending Human Bodies and Powers | |
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From Deus ex Machina to Flash Mobs: Extending, Enabling, and Accessing Performance | |
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Performance Presence: An Ontology | |
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Six Types of Theatrical Presence | |
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Losing the Aura of Presence | |
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Simulacra: There Is No Original | |
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Cyborg Bodies: Human and Machine | |
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Performing Cyborgs | |
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Musical Performance: Is it Live or Is It Memorex? | |
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Interactivity: From "Poke and See," Cyberpoetry, to Computer Art Environments | |
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Reach Out and Perform Someone: Five Kinds of Mediated Presence | |
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Rethinking Technologies | |
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References | |