What is Performance Studies?
- What is Performance Studies?Edited by Diana Taylor and Marcos Steuernagel. This Scalar digital book asks thirty leading scholars from seven different countries throughout the Americas the same question: What is performance studies? The resulting video interviews have been fully transcribed, subtitled, and translated into English, Spanish, and Portuguese, offering a truly trilingual perspective on the field.
Library Resources
Performance Studies by ISBN: 0203125169Publication Date: 2013The publication of Performance Studies: An Introduction was a defining moment for the field. Richard Schechner's pioneering textbook provides a lively and accessible overview of the full range of performance for undergraduates at all levels and beginning graduate students in performance studies, theatre, performing arts, and cultural studies.
The Routledge Introduction to Theatre and Performance Studies by Call Number: PN2037 .F4813 2014ISBN: 9780415504195Publication Date: 2014Erika Fischer-Lichte's introduction to the discipline of Theatre and Performance Studies is a strikingly authoritative and wide ranging guide to the study of theatre in all of its forms. Case studies throughout the book root its theoretical discussion in theatrical practice. Focused accounts of plays, practitioners and performances map the development of Theatre and Performance Studies as an academic discipline, and of the theatre itself as an art form.
