Philip Auslander

School of Literature, Media, and Communication, Georgia Tech

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    • REACTIVATIONS: ESSAYS ON PERFORMANCE AND ITS DOCUMENTATION (2018)
    • LIVENESS: PERFORMANCE IN A MEDIATIZED CULTURE (2008)
    • PERFORMING GLAM ROCK: GENDER AND THEATRICALITY IN POPULAR MUSIC (2006)
    • BODIES IN COMMOTION: DISABILITY AND PERFORMANCE (2005)
    • PERFORMANCE: CRITICAL CONCEPTS IN LITERARY AND CULTURAL STUDIES (2003)
    • LIVENESS: PERFORMANCE IN A MEDIATIZED CULTURE (1999)
    • FROM ACTING TO PERFORMANCE: ESSAYS IN MODERNISM AND POSTMODERNISM (1997)
    • PRESENCE AND RESISTANCE: POSTMODERNISM AND CULTURAL POLITICS IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN PERFORMANCE (1992)
    • THE NEW YORK SCHOOL POETS AS PLAYWRIGHTS: O’HARA, ASHBERY, KOCH, SCHUYLER AND THE VISUAL ARTS (1987)
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  • IN CONCERT: PERFORMING MUSICAL PERSONA (2021)

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PRESENCE AND RESISTANCE: POSTMODERNISM AND CULTURAL POLITICS IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN PERFORMANCE (1992)

This study sheds light on the political nature of postmodern performance, the understandings of postmodern culture that underpin it, and the particular strategies it employs. The first three chapters are devoted to a discussion of postmodern culture, which Philip Auslander sees as “mediatized” culture (borrowing Baudrillard’s term), and to the general positioning of political art and performance within it. The five subsequent chapters are devoted to comparative discussions of issues raised by this positioning and by the critical strategies within specific performance practices drawn from both the avant-garde and popular performance, and to resistant representations of race and gender and performance’s engagement with an information-saturated culture.

Presence and Resistance will interest readers in theater, drama, and performance studies as well as those concerned with issues in postmodern theory, cultural theory, feminism, popular culture, and media theory.

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

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