Bibliography
Readings: with 'performance'
- Anonymous: The Laws of Etiquette [[posted]] (source) (performance, sociology, specials, settings)
This dated text provides a guide to social rules within a heavily structured society.
- Denzin, Norman: Performance Ethnography [[posted]] (sociology, specials, performance)
- Goffman, Erving: Forms of Talk [[posted]] (specials, sociology, performance)
- Burke, Kenneth: A Grammar of Motives [[posted]] (specials, media theory, philosophy, psychology, performance)
- Johnstone, Keith: Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre [[posted]] (specials, performance, visual culture)
- Mackay, Daniel: The Fantasy Roleplaying Game [[posted]] (specials, roleplaying, performance, games)
Mackay analyzes the role-playing game in cultural, formal, social, and aesthetic levels. Various parts of his analysis connect strongly to electronic games.
- Schechner, Richard: Performance Theory [[posted]] (specials, performance)
- Goffman, Erving: Presentation of Self in Everyday Life [[posted]] (media theory, dms, sociology, performance)
- McKenzie, Jon: Perform Or Else [[posted]] (dms, performance, media theory)
- Auslander, Philip: Liveness [[posted]] (dms, performance, media theory)
- Auslander, Phillip: From Acting to Performance: Essays in Modernism and Postmodernism (media traditions, postmodernism, performance)