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Fringe and fortune : the role of critics in high and popular art / Wesley Monroe Shrum, Jr.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1996]Copyright date: ©1996Description: xvi, 284 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0691026572
  • 9780691026572
  • 0691021457
  • 9780691021454
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 700.103 21
LOC classification:
  • N72.S6 S47 1996
Contents:
List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Introduction: A Critic's New Clothes -- Ch. 1. Cultural Mediation and the Status Bargain -- Ch. 2. Critics in the Performing Arts -- Ch. 3. Development of the Festival Fringe -- Ch. 4. Festivals and the Modern Fringe -- Ch. 5. Myth of the Fringe -- Ch. 6. Do Critics Matter? -- Ch. 7. Critical Evaluation -- Ch. 8. Do Performers Listen? -- Ch. 9. Beyond Formal Evaluation -- Ch. 10. Discourse and Hierarchy -- Epilogue -- Appendix A: Review Genres -- Appendix B: Methodological Note -- Appendix C: Note on the Mediation and Reception -- Appendix D: Tables -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: Item looks at the role and impact of critics with reference mainly to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-274) and index.

List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Introduction: A Critic's New Clothes -- Ch. 1. Cultural Mediation and the Status Bargain -- Ch. 2. Critics in the Performing Arts -- Ch. 3. Development of the Festival Fringe -- Ch. 4. Festivals and the Modern Fringe -- Ch. 5. Myth of the Fringe -- Ch. 6. Do Critics Matter? -- Ch. 7. Critical Evaluation -- Ch. 8. Do Performers Listen? -- Ch. 9. Beyond Formal Evaluation -- Ch. 10. Discourse and Hierarchy -- Epilogue -- Appendix A: Review Genres -- Appendix B: Methodological Note -- Appendix C: Note on the Mediation and Reception -- Appendix D: Tables -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Item looks at the role and impact of critics with reference mainly to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

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