| Module Identifier | PF20210 | ||
| Module Title | PERFORMANCE IN CONTEXT | ||
| Academic Year | 2001/2002 | ||
| Co-ordinator | Dr Roger Owen | ||
| Semester | Semester 1 | ||
| Other staff | Dr Donna Lewis, Dr Roger Owen | ||
| Course delivery | Lecture | 20 Hours | |
| Assessment | Essay | 2,500 word written essay - 60%, Performed essay of 15 minutes duration - 40% | 100% |
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.