Representation and Identity from Versailles to the Present: The Performing Subject

by Alan Sikes

Book Overview

Sikes traces the shifting role of performance in the fashioning of subjectivity from the Modern to the Postmodern eras. The book joins history and historiography and is grounded in a body of research about varied performance subjects from court dance, ballet, opera, festivals, celebrations, propaganda films, Hollywood movies to reality TV.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349537829
• ISBN13: 9781349537822
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"