Performativity - Life, Stage, Screen

Download or read book Performativity - Life, Stage, Screen written by A. Dana Weber and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2018 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Performativity" refers to the emergent, ambiguous, and unexpected dimensions of any performance in the social, political, and artistic arena. The volume presents case studies of performativity in: linguistic translation; the city as stage of political performances; the theatricality of courtrooms and documentary film; contemporary theatre's political inheritance; and the historically punctured fabric of festival time. Its contributions to performance and theatre studies, sociology and folklore, and German studies, reflect this concept in a transdisciplinary and transatlantic dialogue.