Opening Acts

<b> <p>Opening Acts: Performance in/as Communication and Cultural Criticism offers new rigorous ways to analyze communication and culture through performance. Editor Judith Hamera along with a distinguished list of contributors provides students with cutting-edge readings of everyday life space history and intersections of all three using a critical performance-based approach. This text makes three significant contributions to the field - it familiarizes readers with the core elements and commitments of performance-based analysis links performance-based analysis to theoretical and analytical perspectives in communication and cultural studies and provides engaging examples of how to use performance as a critical tool to open up communication and culture.</p></b>offers new rigorous ways to analyze communication and culture through performance. Editor Judith Hamera along with a distinguished list of contributors provides students with cutting-edge readings of everyday life space history and intersections of all three using a critical performance-based approach. This text makes three significant contributions to the field - it familiarizes readers with the core elements and commitments of performance-based analysis links performance-based analysis to theoretical and analytical perspectives in communication and cultural studies and provides engaging examples of how to use performance as a critical tool to open up communication and culture.