" A provocative addition to Ann Cvetkovich's eloquent writings on the archives of public
feelings, this book takes depression out of the space of the private into the complex politics …

In What a Body Can Do, Ben Spatz develops, for the first time, a rigorous theory of embodied
technique as knowledge. He argues that viewing technique as both training and research …

Cruising Utopia arrived in 2009 to insist that queerness must be reimagined as a futurity-
bound phenomenon, an insistence on the potentiality of another world that would crack …

With admirable clarity and impressively rich material of concrete examples and detailed
case studies, Shannon Jackson's study outlines the tensions and vectors in the very nerve …

Everyday utopias enact conventional activities in unusual ways. Instead of dreaming about a
better world, participants seek to create it. As such, their activities provide vibrant and …

Performance Affects explores performance projects in disaster and war zones to argue that
joy, beauty and celebration should be the inspiration for the politics of community-based or …

Psychophysical Acting is a direct and vital address to the demands of contemporary theatre
on today's actor. Drawing on over thirty years of intercultural experience, Phillip Zarrilli aims …

This book is a manifesto. It is about rethinking performance autoethnography, about the
formation of a critical performative cultural politics, about what happens when everything is …

Challenging the critique of autoethnography as overly focused on the self, Tami Spry calls
for a performative autoethnography that both unsettles the" I" and represents the Other with …

Theory/Theatre is a unique and highly engaging introduction to literary theory as it relates to
theatre and performance. It is a brilliantly clear and readable examination of current …