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Signs of Performance provides the student with working examples of theatrical analysis. It ranges across the spectrum of twentieth-century theatre, covering practitioners as diverse as Stanislavski and Brecht, Samuel Beckett and Robert Wilson. Colin Counsell takes a historical look at theatre as a cultural practice, clearly tracing connections between key practitioners' own ideas about performance; the theatrical practices prompted by those ideas; the resulting signs which emerge in performance; the meanings and political consequences of those signs. Signs of Performance is the first book to answer the question 'How does theatre work?'. It provides an understandable, theoretical framework for the study of theatre as a signifying practice and offers vivid explanations in clear, direct language. This book tells you everything you want to know about how performance works, and opens up this fascinating field to a broad audience.

Sémiotique et théâtre --- Sémiotique et théâtre --- Theatrical science --- anno 1900-1999 --- Theater --- Théâtre --- Semiotics. --- Political aspects. --- Philosophy. --- Aspect politique --- Philosophie

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The subject of cultural memory, and of the body's role in its creation and dissemination, is central to current academic debate, particularly in relation to performance. Viewed from a variety of theoretical positions, the actions of the meaning-bearing body in culture and its capacity to reproduce, challenge or modify existing formulations have been the focus of some of the most influential studies to emerge from the arts and humanities in the last two and a half decades. The ten essays bro...

Performing arts --- Collective memory. --- Body language. --- Human body --- Group identity. --- Semiotics --- Anthropology --- Collective identity --- Community identity --- Cultural identity --- Social identity --- Identity (Psychology) --- Social psychology --- Collective memory --- Symbolic aspects of the human body --- Symbolism --- Kinesics --- Nonverbal communication (Psychology) --- Interpersonal communication --- Nonverbal communication --- Collective remembrance --- Common memory --- Cultural memory --- Emblematic memory --- Historical memory --- National memory --- Public memory --- Social memory --- Memory --- Group identity --- National characteristics --- Social aspects. --- Symbolic aspects. --- Anthropological aspects. --- Semiotics. --- Arts du spectacle --- Mémoire collective --- Langage du corps --- Corps humain --- Identité collective --- Sémiotique et arts du spectacle --- Aspect social --- Aspect symbolique --- Aspect anthropologique