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According to the Hugh Jackman musical, the circus proprietor almost fell for the “Swedish nightingale”—but the real story is a lot more complicated.
- The Greatest Showman Review
In a weaselly little move, the film, written by Jenny Bicks...
- The Greatest Showman Review
Apr 2, 2015 · These findings hold true for people in all industries, at all levels, in every region of the world. We haven’t yet been able to find a job in which performance and pay aren’t tied closely to emotional intelligence. Bringing It All Together. After the accident Phineas lost his job at the railroad. Intelligence alone was not enough for him to ...
- Goffman as Influencer
- More Than A Popular How-To Manual
- Playing Roles and Being in Character
- Being in and Out of Character
- 21St-Century Goffman
In a poll of professional sociologists, Goffman’s book ranked in the top ten publications of the 20th century. It influenced playwrights such as Tom Stoppard and, of course, Bennett, who was interested indepicting and analysing the role-playing of everyday life that Goffman identified. Goffman was born in Mannville, Alberta in 1922 to Ukrainian Jew...
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life quickly became a national bestseller. It was picked up by general readers “as a guide to social manners and on how to be clever and calculating in social intercourse without being obvious”. This fascinating and complex academic work could indeed be read as a “how-to” manual on how to impress others and miti...
Today, we regularly use theatrical terms like “role”, “script”, “props”, “audience” and being “in and out of character” to describe how people behave in their everyday social life. But Goffman is the one who introduced these concepts, which have become part of our shared language. Together, they highlight how social life depends on what Goffman ter...
It matters who the audience is – and what type of audience we have for our performances. When thinking about how people adapt their behaviour for others, Goffman differentiates between “front regions” and “back regions”. Front regions are where we must present what is often referred to as the “best version of ourselves”. In an open-plan office, a w...
Dramaturgy has survived the onset of our new media environment, where the presentation of the self has migrated to platforms as diverse as Facebook and TikTok. In some ways, it’s more relevant than ever. Goffman’s approach has been applied to electronic media, radio and television studies, mobile phones – and, more recently, social media and even A...
Phelan effaces any significant connection between performance and its traces while Auslander elides any difference between action and artifact. The shared result of each of these attempts to define performance is to posit it as a sovereign category, yet make it unknowable.
Feb 17, 2012 · Using a narrative methodology to explore the stories Olympic and elite athletes tell about success, we identified three alternatives to the dominant conception of success as the achievement of performance outcomes.
- David Carless, Kitrina Douglas
- 2012
In 2016, theorist Jonah Westerman remarked ‘performance is not (and never was) a medium, not something that an artwork can be but rather a set of questions and concerns about how art relates to people and the wider social world’.
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Nov 3, 2015 · But whether staged in museums or commercial galleries, performance art comes with numerous challenges—to commission, to produce, to preserve, to historicize, and to sell—with both sides of the art world’s church and state figuring out how to build on the medium’s potential (and popularity).
