Performance Studies Issues and Methods
Fall 1998
H42.2617  

Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
Department of Performance Studies

READINGS

The following books were ordered for the course and are available at the
NYU Book Center. They are also on reserve at Bobst Library.

  Bell, Catherine. Ritual Theory, Ritual Practice. New York:
     Oxford University Press, 1992.  
 
  Booth, Wayne C., Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams.
     The Craft of Research, Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
     1995.  
 
  Browning, Barbara. Samba: Resistance in Motion. Bloomington:
          Indiana University, 1995.  
 
  Carlson, Marvin. Performance: A Critical Introduction. New
     York: Routledge, 1996.  
 
  Dening, Greg. Performances. Chicago: University of Chicago
     Press, 1996.  
 
  Diamond, Elin. Unmaking Mimesis: Essays on Feminism and
     Theater. New York: Routledge, 1997.  
 
  Gennep, Arnold Van. Rites of Passage, Chicago: University of
     Chicago Press, 1900.  
 
  Gilroy, Paul. The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double
     Consciousness. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993.  
 
  Goffman, Erving. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life.
          Garden City: Doubleday, 1959.  
 
  Gropius, Walter, and Arthur S. Wensinger, eds. The Theater
     of the Bauhaus, ed. trans. Arthur S. Wensinger. Baltimore:
     Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.  
 
  Huizinga, Johan. Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play Element in
     Culture. London: Paladin, 1970.  
 
  Huxley, Mike, and Noel Witts, eds. Twentieth Century
          Performance Reader, New York: Routledge, 1996.  
 
  Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara. Destination Culture:
     Tourism, Museums, and Heritage. Berkeley: University of
     California Press, 1998.  
 
  Kondo, Dorinne. About Face: Performing "Race" in Fashion and
     Theater. New York: Routledge, 1997.  
 
  Montgomery, Maureen E. Displaying Women: Spectacles of
     Leisure in Edith Wharton's New York. New York: Routledge,
     1998.  
 
  Mullaney, Steven. The Place of the Stage: License, Play and
     Power in Renaissance England. Chicago: University of
     Chicago, 1988.  
 
  Murray, Timothy, ed. Mimesis, Masochism, and Mime: The
     Politics of Theatricality in Contemporary French Thought,
     Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997.  
 
  Newton, Esther. Mother Camp. Chicago: University of Chicago
     Press, 1979.  
 
  Phelan, Peggy. Unmarked. New York: Routledge, 1993.  
 
  Roach, Joseph R. Cities of the Dead: Circum-Atlantic
     Performance. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996.  
 
  Roach, Joseph R. The Player's Passion: Studies in the
     Science of Acting. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press,
     1993.  
 
  Santino, Jack, ed. Halloween and Other Festivals of Death
     and Life, Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1994.  
 
  Schechner, Richard. Between Theatre and Anthropology.
     Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1985.  
 
  Taylor, Julie. Paper Tangos. Durham: Duke University Press,
     1998. 

  Toepfer, Karl. Empire of Ecstasy: Nudity and Movement in
     German Body Culture. Berkeley: University of California
     Press, 1996.  
 
  Walser, Robert. Running with the Devil: Power, Gender, and
          Madness in Heavy Metal. Hanover, New Hampshire:
          University Press of New England, 1993.  
 
  Williams, Raymond. Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and
     Society, rev. ed. ed. New York: Oxford University Press,
     1983.  
 
  Zito, Angela. Of Body and Brush: Grand Sacrifice as
     Text/Performance in Eighteenth-Century China. Chicago:
     University of Chicago Press, 1997.