Search results for “[Subject: performance]”

• Author(s): Patrick Anderson • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismIn So Much Wasted, Patrick Anderson analyzes self-starvation as a significant mode of staging po...

• Author(s): Diana Taylor • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: PerformanceIn Presente! Diana Taylor asks what it means to be physically and politically present in situations where it seems that n...

• Author(s): Jeffrey T. Nealon • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralIn conventional identity politics subjective differences are understood negatively, as gaps to ...

• Author(s): Michelle Ann Stephens • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialIn Skin Acts, Michelle Ann Stephens explores the work of four iconic twentieth-century b...

• Author(s): Ricardo Montez • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: History - 20th & 21st CenturyIn the thirty years since his death, Keith Haring--a central presence on the New York downtown sce...

• Author(s): Tejaswini Niranjana • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Asia - India & South AsiaIn Musicophilia in Mumbai Tejaswini Niranjana traces the place of Hindustani classical music in M...

• Author(s): Lauren Steimer • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismAction movie stars ranging from Jackie Chan to lesser-known stunt women and men like Zoë Bell and Ch...

• Author(s): Diana Taylor • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Theater - History & Criticism"Performance" has multiple and often overlapping meanings that signify a wide variety of social beha...

• Author(s): Jane Blocker • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Techniques - Painting - GeneralAna Mendieta, a Cuban-born artist who lived in exile in the United States, was one of the most provoca...

• Author(s): Hershini Bhana Young • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismIn Illegible Will Hershini Bhana Young engages with the archive of South African and black d...

• Author(s): Gillian Siddall • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Genres & Styles - JazzThe contributors to Negotiated Moments explore how subjectivity is formed and expressed through musical ...

• Author(s): Stephanie Leigh Batiste • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Ethnic Studies - African American StudiesIn Darkening Mirrors, Stephanie Leigh Batiste examines how African Americans part...

• Author(s): Jean Ma • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismFrom the beginning of the sound cinema era, singing actresses captivated Chinese audiences. In Sounding the ...

• Author(s): Jordache A. Ellapen • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Cultural & Ethnic Studies - African StudiesIn Indenture Aesthetics, Jordache A. Ellapen examines the visual and performanc...

• Author(s): Omar Kasmani • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Ethnic Studies - Asian StudiesDrawing on history, anthropology, literature, law, art, film, and performance studies, the contributors...

• Author(s): J. Martin Favor • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: American - African AmericanWhat constitutes "blackness" in American culture? And who gets to define whether or not someone is trul...

• Author(s): Jonathan Sterne • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: DisabilityIn Diminished Faculties Jonathan Sterne offers a sweeping cultural study and theorization of impairment. Drawing on his ...

• Author(s): Paola Bacchetta • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Gender StudiesIn Co-Motion, theorist Paola Bacchetta proposes a new lexicon for analyzing power, subjects and alliances. Employing...

• Author(s): Aren Z. Aizura • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Gender StudiesThe first famous transgender person in the United States, Christine Jorgensen, traveled to Denmark for gender reassig...

• Author(s): Sara Ahmed • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Free Will & DeterminismIn Willful Subjects Sara Ahmed explores willfulness as a charge often made by some against others. One histo...

• Author(s): Harilaos Stecopoulos • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Men's Studies - GeneralAlthough in recent years scholars have explored the cultural construction of masculinity, they have la...

• Author(s): Srila Roy • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Women's StudiesIn Changing the Subject Srila Roy maps the rapidly transforming terrain of gender and sexual politics in India under the ...

• Author(s): Carlos Ulises Decena • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: LGBTQ+ Studies - Gay StudiesTacit Subjects is a pioneering analysis of how gay immigrant men of color negotiate race, sexuali...

• Author(s): Antonio Viego • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryDead Subjects is an impassioned call for scholars in critical race and ethnic studies to engage with Lacanian ...

• Author(s): Benjamin Lee • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralLooks at the interrelations between models of language in anthropology, philosophy, linguistics, and literary cr...

• Author(s): Abdul R. Janmohamed • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: American - African AmericanDuring the 1940s, in response to the charge that his writing was filled with violence, Richard Wrig...

• Author(s): Matthew D. O'Hara • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Latin America - South AmericaIn colonial Latin America, social identity did not correlate neatly with fixed categories of race a...