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Presence and resistance : postmodernism and cultural politics in contemporary American performance / Philip Auslander.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Theater--theory/text/performancePublisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [1994]Copyright date: ©1994Edition: First paperback editionDescription: viii, 206 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0472082787
  • 9780472082780
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 700.1030973 22
LOC classification:
  • NX504 .A89 1994
Contents:
Introduction -- Pt. 1. Postmodernism, Cultural Politics, Performance -- Ch. 1. Postmodern Culture as Mediatized Culture -- Ch. 2. Postmodernism and Cultural Politics -- Ch. 3. From the Politics of Ecstasy to the Ecstasy of Communication -- Pt. 2. Going with the Flow: Performance in a Mediatized Culture -- Ch. 4. Performance Art and Television Culture -- Ch. 5. L.S.D. from The Crucible: The Wooster Group -- Ch. 6. Intellectual Property Meets the Cyborg: Technology and Textual Ownership in Postmodernist Performance -- Ch. 7. "Comedy about the Failure of Comedy": Stand-up Comedy and Postmodernism -- Ch. 8. Comedy, Mediatization, Resistance: Andy Kaufman and Sandra Bernhard -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-197) and index.

Introduction -- Pt. 1. Postmodernism, Cultural Politics, Performance -- Ch. 1. Postmodern Culture as Mediatized Culture -- Ch. 2. Postmodernism and Cultural Politics -- Ch. 3. From the Politics of Ecstasy to the Ecstasy of Communication -- Pt. 2. Going with the Flow: Performance in a Mediatized Culture -- Ch. 4. Performance Art and Television Culture -- Ch. 5. L.S.D. from The Crucible: The Wooster Group -- Ch. 6. Intellectual Property Meets the Cyborg: Technology and Textual Ownership in Postmodernist Performance -- Ch. 7. "Comedy about the Failure of Comedy": Stand-up Comedy and Postmodernism -- Ch. 8. Comedy, Mediatization, Resistance: Andy Kaufman and Sandra Bernhard -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index.

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