A. Sikes

Representation and Identity from Versailles to the Present

The Performing Subject

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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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.

Produktdetails

• Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan US / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-4039-7784-7
• 2007
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. September 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9781403977847
• ISBN-10: 1403977844
• Artikelnr.: 22723013

Autorenporträt

ALAN SIKES is Assistant Professor of Theatre at Hunter College at the City University of New York, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Identity and Representation in the Modern and Postmodern Eras The Performance of Privilege in the Reign of Louis XIV The Rise and Fall of the Castrato Singer Citizen Action and the Libratory Legacy of the French Revolution The Hysterical Woman From Zola to Freud Benjamin, Adorno, and the Politics of Mediatization Performativity and the Horizon of Hegemony

Rezensionen

"At the time when the prefix 'post ' begins to lose its singularity and radical sharpness, Sikes's study reminds us that we have much to gain by exploring the tension between past and present imaginations. His critical imaginary travels through an insightful analysis of the relationship between social status and performance (conduct manuals from the time of Louis XIV), instability within sexual hierarchies of the Baroque culture, post-revolutionary freedom and new modes of political participation (1789), the culture of visuality in the nineteenth century (Zola and Freud), mediated images (The Truman Show), and same-sex marriage (2007, USA). What is significant in the study of these historical fragments is Sikes's commitment to exploring performative articulations and re-articulations, which view the horizon of the intelligible not as limit of a historiographic project, but as a dynamic site where the radical performative possibilities can exist. By so doing, this study may effect how we write about theatre/performance history." - Michal Kobialka, Professor of Theatre, University of Minnesota