Performing Culture - Stories of Expertise and the Everyday

Performing Culture presents a detailed and probing account of cultural studies' changing fixations with theory, method, policy, text, production, audience and the micro-politics of the everyday.

John Tulloch encourages academics and students to take seriously the need to break down the separation between high and low cultural studies. Tulloch's case studies show that the performance of cultural meanings occurs in forms as diverse as The Royal Shakespeare Company's Shakespeare and Chekhov productions and our everyday work and leisure encounters. Drawing upon anthropological and dramatic studies of performance, the book emphasizes that academic research also performs cultural meaning. A central feature of the book is its reflexive consideration of the representations of culture constructed by academic 'experts'.

List of contents

Introduction
Introduction
Performing Culture
Cultural Theory
Cultural Policy
(High) Cultural Framing
(High) Cultural Re-Framing
Cultural Reading
Cultural Methods
Situated Performance

About the author

John Tulloch is Professor at the School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Cardiff

Summary

A look at the strengths and weaknesses of cultural studies, providing a blend of performance and risk theory. It explores the need to erase the separation of "high" and "popular" culture studies, starting from the thesis that cultural studies has been too pre-occupied with popular culture.

Report

`[An] excellent and an extremely valuable contribution to contemporary theory ....[The] political implications of this perspective are grasped both through the extensive use of case studies and the powerful critique of the presuppositions of expertise that have grounded so much theorizing....attractive and very welcome' - David Chaney, Professor of Sociology, University of Durham

Product details

• Authors: John Tulloch, Tulloch John
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.10.1999
• EAN: 9780761956082
• ISBN: 978-0-7619-5608-2
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: TCS, Theory, Culture & Society; Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society; Theory, Culture & Society (Pap; TCS, Theory, Culture & Society
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general); Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Cultural Studies, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Mass Communication;Cultural Theory