...In this chapter, Asbjørn Grønstad and Øyvind Vågnes invoke Greil Marcus’s aesthetic imaginary of “the old weird America” and the literary trope “the Southern Gothic” in order to explore the elusive identity of Southern music and culture, and the multiple ways the performative rockumentary engages...

...In this chapter I discuss performative slurs as a tactic deployed by feminist activists in England in the 19th century. During debates about the Contagious Diseases Acts in England, feminists’ radical and humiliating rhetoric resignified exclusionary political conventions such as prostitution laws...

... proportionality as related to harmony performance performative aspect or function threshold spaces Qalahurra/tower-palace Tower of the Captive hybrid structure architectural decoration Ibn al-Jayyāb badī poetry poetic figures performative function inter-medial relationships integrated aesthetic...

... argue that these two Schroeder films, with their multi-faceted, ‘mosaic-like’ styles and structures, perform this fractured Levinasian refusal to settle on a fixed, simplistic definition of the law’s purpose. I analyse Reversal of Fortune for its multiple story strands and the different...

...This chapter explores how activist filmmaker Habiba Djahnine creates an Algerian memory film with her 2006 documentary Lettre à ma soeur/Letter to My Sister. It examines how Djahnine uses aspects of the performative documentary mode for personal and autobiographical explorations...

...This book analyses the affective-performative aspects of the cinema based on the philosophical thoughts of Gilles Deleuze, considering performance as expression-event of unassimilable affect and the performing/performative body as the site where the affective event takes place. It suggests...

... and The Tarnished Angels, and argues that the subversive force of the female performer in these Sirkian melodramas does not primarily rest upon notions of individual agency. Rather, the most notable subversive effects of these films lie in the capacity of certain heightened affective-performative moments...

... that of performative spaces with a strong narrative component. The chapter analyses the curatorial debate about the “experiential” museum, with particular attention to the role of audio-visuals in shaping this trend. Hooper Greenhill Eilean audio visual reconstructions ICOM International Council of Museums...

... most metadramatic modes. ‘Policy’ in these plays includes informing, self-counterfeiting, and the performative aspect of authority reaching to the very top. In metadrama, as in policy, the polites are at the heart of the drama and eliciting a positive interpretative response is the aim...

... judgments. It reviews David Lynch's films Mulholland Drive and Blue Velvet. The chapter suggests that the film's pivotal scene at Club Silencio in Mulholland Drive is its most intense rendition of an affective-performative cinema and describes Lynch's...

...This concluding chapter sums up the key findings of this study on the affective-performative aspects of cinema, showing that insofar as powers of affection concern processes of change, transformation and experimentation, they are thoroughly affirmative in the sense of being ceaselessly active...

...Both Burns and his many nineteenth-century editors can be seen as performers who had a wide range of goals and a wide range of methods for pursuing them. From the Kilmarnock edition (1786) on, many forms of peritext, including prefaces, footnotes, and glossaries complemented the text of the poems...

...This chapter looks at how the European elite responded to urgent issues by rethinking classical culture as a model of performative community, and by turning to the performative mode of mass spectacle and festival. The discussion focuses on the redefinitions these two relationships were subjected...

...This reinterpretation of Greek tragedy focuses on the performative – the physical and civic – dimension of tragedy. It challenges the idealist, humanist, and universalist approaches that have informed our most cherished philosophical, psychoanalytical, and modern interpretations of Greek tragedy...

... is juxtaposed with the films’ depictions of the ruin, a motif that is attached specifically to this class. It argues that the film 24 City commemorates the factory and the worker class through its use of “portraits in performance” and “memories in performance,” arguing that, although...

... Hill Lockhart J G Scott Centenary Performative history The National Drama History Painting William Spalding Walter Scott P. F. Tytler The language and metaphors of the stage, its scenes and its tragedies, are recurring motifs in Burton’s narrative. They are not constantly present...

... of politics centres on the political in medias res, the new and collective struggle. The chapter further elucidates Butler’s notion of performative universality and cultural translation. The chapter functions as a sort of glossary of the key ontological and political linkages in Butler’s work...

... approaches to national cinema as a reframing of the relationship between nation and cinema; the transnational and national as constitutive rather than mutually exclusive conceptions; identity as performative; and films as cinematic performances that produce multiple Singapores. Each of these Singapores adds...

...The book’s conclusion discusses the findings of Parts three and four and their implications for a general theory of what this book proposes to call performative metalanguage. Arguing that literary works may contain a metalinguistic dimension and intention, we maintain that a theory...