Cmst 1150
EXAM 2 REVIEW
(Performance Studies)
The exam will include approximately 50 questions (multiple choice, matching, and true/false). You will need a large Scantron form and #2 pencils to record your answers.
Introduction to Performance Studies (K. Filbel lecture and Schechner, ch. 1)
What does it mean to say the field of perf. studies is wide open?
Richard Schechner claims that human values are not from nature, so where do they come from? •
Basic assumptions of Performance Studies : (7 assumptions compiled from Schechner listed in class) o Performance studies examines behavior as an object of study o Performance studies involves doing performance o Participant observation-ethnography (study of people) o Frequently involved in social practices in advocacy ▪ Ideology- a system of beliefs more frequent than other academic study ▪ More frequent than other academic study o Performance should be seen as a broad spectrum or a continuum of behaviors (all related to each other) o Performance studies views culture groups in 2 ways: ▪ Cultural groups are always interacting ▪ Cultural groups have distinct identities o We live in a world of multiple literacies which are preferences ▪ “body literacies” ▪ “aural literacies” ▪ “visual literacies” ▪ “electronic literacies”
Two histories of Performance Studies: (two narrative lines of the discipline: NYU story; NU/Oral Interpretation story, e.g. LSU) o Two narrative lines of the discipline: ▪ NYU line- 1st called performance studies in 1980, emerged from theater ▪ Northwestern University Line/LSU- emerged from oral interpretation, emphasis on literature
What is meant by calling Performance Studies interdisciplinary and anti-disciplinary? o Interdisciplinary- tends to think their forms of scholarship is better than other forms of scholarship; it doesn’t mind borrowing research and models from other areas; resists
(Performance Studies)
The exam will include approximately 50 questions (multiple choice, matching, and true/false). You will need a large Scantron form and #2 pencils to record your answers.
Introduction to Performance Studies (K. Filbel lecture and Schechner, ch. 1)
What does it mean to say the field of perf. studies is wide open?
Richard Schechner claims that human values are not from nature, so where do they come from? •
Basic assumptions of Performance Studies : (7 assumptions compiled from Schechner listed in class) o Performance studies examines behavior as an object of study o Performance studies involves doing performance o Participant observation-ethnography (study of people) o Frequently involved in social practices in advocacy ▪ Ideology- a system of beliefs more frequent than other academic study ▪ More frequent than other academic study o Performance should be seen as a broad spectrum or a continuum of behaviors (all related to each other) o Performance studies views culture groups in 2 ways: ▪ Cultural groups are always interacting ▪ Cultural groups have distinct identities o We live in a world of multiple literacies which are preferences ▪ “body literacies” ▪ “aural literacies” ▪ “visual literacies” ▪ “electronic literacies”
Two histories of Performance Studies: (two narrative lines of the discipline: NYU story; NU/Oral Interpretation story, e.g. LSU) o Two narrative lines of the discipline: ▪ NYU line- 1st called performance studies in 1980, emerged from theater ▪ Northwestern University Line/LSU- emerged from oral interpretation, emphasis on literature
What is meant by calling Performance Studies interdisciplinary and anti-disciplinary? o Interdisciplinary- tends to think their forms of scholarship is better than other forms of scholarship; it doesn’t mind borrowing research and models from other areas; resists