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- ISBN: 9780415404426 | 0415404428
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 4/6/2011
Performing Remains explores the role of the fake, the false and the faux in contemporary performance. One of Performance Studies' leading scholars, Rebecca Schneider questions the view that performance is a ~ephemerala (TM) and instead argues that rather than being about what disappears, performance is defined by what remains. Across seven essays, Schneider examines both contemporary and historical performance with a wide scope, drawing on a variety of elucidating sources including the a ~Americaa (TM) plays of Linda Mussmann and Susan Lori-Parks, performances of Marina AbramoviA+ and Allison Smith, and the continued popular appeal of Civil War re-enactments. Performing Remains questions the importance of representation throughout history and today, whilst reassessing the ritual value of failure to recapture the past and recreate the a ~originala (TM).