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Author:   Mark Franko (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.370kg
ISBN:  

9780415544115

ISBN 10:   0415544114
Pages:   194
Publication Date:   13 October 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Eventful Knowledge and the Post-Ritual Turn Mark Franko Part I. Critical Historiographies/New Formations 1. Going Back to Bateson: Towards a Semiotics of (Post-) Ritual Performance Sally A. Ness 2. Performative Interventions: African Community Theatre in the age of AIDS Ola Johansson 3. Ritually Failing: Turner’s Theatrical Communitas Andrew Wegley 4. Situation and Event: The Destinations of Sense Tyrus Miller Part II. Case Studies from the Performative and Visual Archive 5. The Terrorist Event Bill Nichols 6. Gojira vs Godzilla: Catastrophic Allegories Aaron Kerner 7. Given Movement: dance and the Event Mark Franko 8. Illness as Danced Urban Ritual Janice Ross 9. Post-colonial Torture: Rituals of Viewing at Abu Ghraib Catherine Soussloff

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Mark Franko is a choreographer and performance scholar who teaches in the Theater Arts Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Among his publications are Dance as Text: Ideologies of the Baroque Body, Dancing Modernism/Performing Politics, and The Work of Dance: Labor, Movement, and Identity.

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