Module Identifier | PF20210 | ||
Module Title | PERFORMANCE IN CONTEXT | ||
Academic Year | 2000/2001 | ||
Co-ordinator | Professor Mike Pearson | ||
Semester | Semester 1 | ||
Other staff | Ms Lisa Lewis, Mr Thomas Owen | ||
Course delivery | Lecture | 20 Hours | |
Assessment | Essay | 2,500 word essay | |
Essay | Performed essay of 15 minutes duration |
General description
Process
The lectures will be staged as multi-media presentations including video and data projection.
Aims:
The aim of this module is:
To present a non-chronological and non-canonical approach to performance behaviours, practices and genres, and to performance-like activities.
To identify a number of contexts in which different types of performance may be negotiated: and the social, cultural and environmental implications of those contexts on the nature, form, function and placement of performance.
To examine these contexts in a comparative and interdisciplinary manner, drawing frmo the fields of history, anthropology, human geography, sociology, politics, rhetoric and aesthetics.
Reading Lists
Books
Students will be expected to purchase a specially-produced reader..