Urban studies has long understood the city as a 'text'. What would it mean now to use performance to rethink that metaphor? This book, now in paperback, queries the role theatre and performance play in urban policy, architecture, andcivic history, also exploring their important place in the memories created in the wake of urban trauma. D.J. HOPKINS is Head of Theatre Studies in the School of Theatre, Television, and Film at San Diego State University, USA. He is the author of 'City/Stage/Globe: Performance and Space in Shakespeare's London'. SHELLEY ORR teaches in the School of Theatre, Television, and Film at San Diego State University, USA. She heads the dramaturgy area at SDSU and is past president of the international association Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA).. KIM SOLGA is Associate Professor of English at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. She is the author of 'Violence Against Women in Early Modern Performance: Invisible Acts, '(Palgrave Macmillan, 2009). INDICE: List of Illustrations - Preface to the paperback edition - Acknowledgements - Notes on Contributors - Preface; 'S.Bennett' - Introduction: City/Text/Performance; 'K.Solga with D.J.Hopkins' &' S.Orr - 'PART I: PEDESTRIANISMS, OR REMEMBERING THE CITY - Pedestrianisms or Remembering the City: Introduction; 'D.J.Hopkins' - Ways to Walk New York After 9/11; 'M.Carlson' - Memory/Memorial/Performance: Lower Manhattan, 1776. 2001; 'D.J.Hopkins' &' S.Orr' - Patricide and the Passerby; 'R.Schneider' - PART II: URBAN PERFORMANCE AND CULTURAL POLICY - Urban Performance and Cultural Policy: Introduction; 'K.Solga' - Multicultural Text, Intercultural Performance: The Performance Ecology of Contemporary Toronto; 'R.Knowles - 'Mission Accomplished: Broadway, 9/11, and the Republican National Convention; 'R.A.Rugg' - Performing the Civic Transnational: Cultural Production, Governance, and Citizenship in Contemporary London; 'M.McKinnie' - PART III: PERFORMING (FOR) ONE ANOTHER: CONSTRUCTING COMMUNITIES -Performing (for) One Another: Introduction; 'S.Orr - 'Surviving the City: Press Agents, Publicity Stunts, and the Spectacle of the Urban Female Body; 'M.Schweitzer' - 'Dress Suits to Hire' and the Landscape of Queer Urbanity; 'K.Solga' - Global Exposures: Blur Street and Interurban Self-Portraiture (a photo essay); 'Curated by K.Irwin, R.Viader Knowles '&' L.Levin - 'PART IV: AT THE CITY LIMITS - At the City Limits: Introduction; 'K.Solga - 'Staging the Imagined City in Australian Theatre; 'J.Tompkins' - Agency and Complicity in 'A SpecialCivic Room': London's Tate Modern Turbine Hall; 'J.Harvie' - Staging a Vanished Community: Daniel Libeskind's Scenography in the Berlin Jewish Museum; 'K.van den Berg - '13 Can the City Speak? Site-Specific Art After Poststructuralism; 'L.Levin - 'Afterword; 'B.Hodgdon - 'Index
- ISBN: 978-0-230-30049-1
- Editorial: Palgrave MacM
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Fecha Publicación: 25/05/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés