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Schechner, Richard was born on August 23, 1934 in Newark. Son of Sheridan and Selma Sophia (Schwarz) Schechner.
( The publication of Performance Studies: An Introduction...)
The publication of Performance Studies: An Introduction was a defining moment for the field. Richard Schechner's pioneering textbook provides a lively and accessible overview of the full range of performance for undergraduates at all levels and beginning graduate students in performance studies, theatre, performing arts, and cultural studies. Among the topics discussed are the performing arts and popular entertainments, rituals, play and games, and the performances of everyday life. Supporting examples and ideas are drawn from the social sciences, performing arts, poststructuralism, ritual theory, ethology, philosophy, and aesthetics. This third edition is accompanied by an all-new companion website curated by a dedicated media editor, with the following resources for instructors and students: • Interactive glossary • Multiple choice questions • Powerpoint Slides. • Videos • Website links for further study • Tutorials on specific skills within Performance Studies • Sample Discussion Questions • Exercises and Activities • Sample Syllabi The book itself has also been revised, with 25 new extracts and biographies, up-to-date coverage of global and intercultural performances, and further exploration of the growing international presence of Performance Studies as a discipline. Performance Studies is the definitive overview for undergraduates, with primary extracts, student activities, key biographies and over 200 images of global performance.
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Collected essays by a leading specialist on modern Indian theatre and film, Professor at NYU. Covers political theater, the secuar and sacred, primary attention to Indian cultural developments
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(This important new introductory textbook by a prime mover...)
This important new introductory textbook by a prime mover in the emergent field of Performance Studies is a defining moment for the discipline. It provides a lively and accessible overview of the full range of performance for undergraduates at all levels and beginning graduate students in performance studies, theatre, performing arts and cultural studies. It includes discussion of the performing arts and popular entertainments, rituals, play and games as well as the performances of every day life. Supporting examples and ideas are drawn from the performing arts, anthropology, post-structuralism, ritual theory, ethology, philosophy and aesthetics. The text has been fully developed with input from leading teachers and trialled with students. User-friendly, with a special text design, it also includes the following features: Extracts from primary sources giving alternative voices and viewpoints Biographies of key thinkers 'Things to think about' and 'things to do' to stimulate fieldwork, classroom exercises and discussion Key reading lists for each chapter 20 line drawings and 173 b+w photographs drawn from private and public collections around the world.
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In The Future of Ritual, Richard Schechner explores the nature of ritualised behaviour and its relationship to performance and politics. A brilliant and uncontainable examination of cultural expression and communal action, The Future of Ritual asks pertinent questions about art, theatre and the changing meaning of 'culture' in today's intercultural world. An exciting new work by the author of Performance Theory.
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( In this second edition, the author opens with a discuss...)
In this second edition, the author opens with a discussion of important developments in the discipline. His closing chapter, 'Global and Intercultural Performance', is completely rewritten in light of the post-9/11 world. Fully revised chapters with new examples, biographies and source material provide a lively, easily accessible overview of the full range of performance for undergraduates at all levels in performance studies, theatre, performing arts and cultural studies. Among the topics discussed are the performing arts and popular entertainments, rituals, play and games as well as the performances of everyday life. Supporting examples and ideas are drawn from the social sciences, performing arts, post-structuralism, ritual theory, ethology, philosophy and aesthetics. User-friendly, with a special text design, Performance Studies: An Introduction also includes the following features: • numerous extracts from primary sources giving alternative voices and viewpoints • biographies of key thinkers • student activities to stimulate fieldwork, classroom exercises and discussion • key reading lists for each chapter • twenty line drawings and 202 photographs drawn from private and public collections around the world.
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Schechner, Richard was born on August 23, 1934 in Newark. Son of Sheridan and Selma Sophia (Schwarz) Schechner.
Bachelor, Cornell University, 1956. Postgraduate, Johns Hopkins University, 1957. Master of Arts, State University Iowa, 1958.
Doctor of Philosophy, Tulane University, 1962.
Assistant professor theatre Tulane University, 1962-1966, associate professor, 1966-1967. Professor performance studies New York University, 1967-1991, University professor, since 1991. Co-founder, co-director New Orleans Group, 1965-1967.
Founder, director Performance Group, New York City, 1967-1980. Founder, artistic director East Coast Artists, since 1991. Andrew H. White professor-at-large Cornell University, 1999—2005.
Senior fellow Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University, since 2004. Honorary professor Shanghai Theatre Academy, since 1995. Professor titular adjunct Instituto Superior de Arte, Havana, Cuba.
Board directors Theatre Communications Group, 1977-1978. Advisor International Theatre Institute, 1975-1977, Center Performance Research, Aberwrystwich, Wales, 1993-1997. President Bunch of Experimental Theatres, 1975, 77, Fulbright Theatre Discipline Committee, 1988-1991.
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( In this second edition, the author opens with a discuss...)
(Collected essays by a leading specialist on modern Indian...)
( The publication of Performance Studies: An Introduction...)
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Served with Army of the United States, 1958-1960.
Married Carol Martin. Children: Samuel MacIntosh, Sophia Martin.