Performance and the City

Kim Solga

ISBN 10: 023020497X / ISBN 13: 9780230204973

Verlag: SPRINGER NATURE Apr 2009, 2009

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This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Winner of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education Excellence in Editing Award 2016Urban studies has long understood the city as a 'text'. What would it mean now to use performance to rethink that metaphor Performance and the City queries the role theatre and performance play in urban policy, architecture, and civic history, while also exploring their important place in the memories created in the wake of urban trauma. 269 pp. Englisch.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9780230204973

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Performance and the City
• Verlag: SPRINGER NATURE Apr 2009
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 023020497X
• ISBN-13: 9780230204973
• Einband: Buch
• Zustand: Neu

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Urban studies has long understood the city as a 'text.' What would it mean now to use performance to rethink that metaphor? Performance and the City queries the role theatre and performance play in urban policy, architecture, and civic history, while also exploring their important place in the memories created in the wake of urban trauma.

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MARLA CARLSON is Assistant Professor at the University of Georgia, USA JEN HARVIE is Reader in Theatre and Performance at Queen Mary, University of London, UK BARBARA HODGDON is a Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan, USA KATHLEEN IRWIN teaches at the University of Regina, Canada RIC KNOWLES is Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph, Canada LAURA LEVIN is an Assistant Professor of Theatre at York University, UK MICHAEL MCKINNIE is Senior Lecturer in Drama at Queen Mary, University of London, UK REBECCA ANN RUGG teaches in the Department of Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism at the Yale School of Drama, USA REBECCA SCHNEIDER teaches performance studies, theatre studies, and theories of intermedia at Brown University, USA MARLIS SCHWEITZER is Assistant Professor in Theatre Studies at York University, UK JOANNE TOMPKINS teaches at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia KLAUS VAN DEN BERG is Associate Professor at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, USA RACHELLE VIADER KNOWLES is a visual artist working in a broad range of contemporary and digital media SUSAN BENNETT is University Professor in the Department of English at the University of Calgary, Canada