The Semiotics of Performances
An Introduction to the Analysis, Interpretation, and Theory of the Performing Arts
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
- Date of Publication 9 January 2025
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9781350372665
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 16 bw illus 678
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Long description:
What is a live performance? And why is semiotics the best approach for the analysis and interpretation of the performing arts?
Drawing on semiotic developments of the past five decades, this book introduces students to the semiotic analysis of live performances and provides them with a clear method for untangling the multimodal complexity of performance from the spectator's point of view.
Presenting live performances as two-way communication processes, social events, and cognitive and affective experiences, each chapter of this highly accessible book begins first with an overview of the basics. This is followed by a case study, and moves through to a more advanced discussion, accompanied by suggestions for exercises and further reading. Diagrams and flow charts help to clearly illustrate the conceptual tools used in the analytical process, and a companion website contains recorded extracts from the live performances discussed in the book, which students can use to put their knowledge into practice. The book explores a broad range of performance types from across different cultures, including music, opera, ballet, theatre, circus, mime, improvisation, and immersion. It offers a guide for understanding the way in which a performance is produced, from an initial idea through to the final presentation in front of a live audience, and provides the reader with the tools and understanding they need for a successful semiotic analysis of live performance.
Table of Contents:
List of Figures
Preface
Introduction: The Real-Life Experience of Attending a Live Performance
1. Performance as Communication Process
2. Performance as Creative Process
3. The Construction of Performing Identities: From Person to Persona
4. Performance as Social Process
5. Performance as Affective Experience
6. Performance as Cognitive Experience: Narrative Structures and Relevance
7. Performance as Text: Description and Interpretation of Ephemeral Events
8. Performance as Metaphor: Performing Roles in Everyday Life
9. Beyond Performance: Social Impact, Reflexivity, and Transformative Experience
10. The Rules of Performance: The Felicity Conditions
Index
