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Title: The Explicit Body in Performance by Rebecca Schneider ISBN: 0-415-09026-1 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 01 March, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Brilliant combo of theory and practice
Comment: What I love most about this brilliant, original work is the way Schneider manages to think beyond the usual programmatic feminist notions that have become so dated, even reactionary, and yet do so without sacrificing her passionately held feminist politiccs. It really is a tour de force, and will interst anyone intersted in the representation of the female nude in art, pornography, and in theatrical performance.
Rating: 5
Summary: An Exquisite Performance
Comment: A great survey of the 1980s performance art scene, the era of Annie Sprinkle, Karen Finley, Carolee Schneeman, even Sandra Bernhard and RuPaul. Scheider's book is both personally compelling and theoretically rich. She was obviously in New York City for the 80s, catching the downtown performances that launched a thousand Jesse Helms speeches. Wonderful observations from the front line and the front row, a perspective too often missing from academic works about performance. Schneider is also an expert guide through the theoretical precedents for the body as stage; the book offers original and relevant readings of Walter Benjamin, Judith Butler, and Jaques Lacan. Explicit Body is illustrated with a terrific photographs, invaluable documentation of a vital and dynamic period. (The juxtaposition of Cindy Sherman's gross-out work with a Gianfranco Ferre advertisement had me laughing out loud.) Highly recommended for anyone interested in the performative side of gender studies, commodity fetishism, and queer theory.
Rating: 3
Summary: Explicitly Misleading?
Comment: Schneider's topic is both controversial and compelling, and for that I applaud her efforts. Her strongest areas of analysis and discussion in "The Explicit Body in Performance" include performance vs. pornography and the artists Carolee Schneeman and Annie Sprinkle. Schneider is far less effective in examining the tenuous topic of race and the explicit body in performance--and perhaps understandably so. Race is a difficult area to tackle on its own, and much moreso when it is paired with the notion of the explicit, racially-marked body in performance. Much stronger analyses of this nature do exist--coming from such performance theorists and cultural critics as Coco Fusco and bell hooks. Still, "The Explicit Body in Performance" is a book worth reading, particularly for avid fans, students, and scholars of women's performance art.
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Title: Body Art/Performing the Subject by Amelia Jones ISBN: 0816627738 Publisher: University of Minnesota Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1998 List Price(USD): $22.58 |
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Title: Unmarked: The Politics of Performance by Peggy Phelan ISBN: 0415068223 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 01 December, 1992 List Price(USD): $37.95 |
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Title: The Ends of Performance by Peggy Phelan, Jill Lane ISBN: 0814766471 Publisher: New York University Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1998 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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Title: Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the "Frenzy of the Visible" by Linda Williams ISBN: 0520219430 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Changing Room : Sex, Drag and Theatre (Gender in Performance) by Laurence Senelick ISBN: 0415159865 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: July, 2000 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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