Rhetoric and Public Culture.....Film and Media Studies......Performance and Ethnography

The study of performance investigates communicative practices in their sociocultural context from three related perspectives. First, it foregrounds the performativity of communicative forms and practices as modes of action, ways of accomplishing social ends. Second, it directs attention to the poetics of communicative practice, the ways in which communicative acts are crafted and communicative skill is displayed. And third, it focuses on performances as a special class of events, such as rituals, spectacles, festivals, or fairs, in which a society's symbols and values are publicly displayed, interpreted, and transformed. Performance studies employs a variety of methods, but draws heavily on the ethnographic study of communicative forms and practices in their social context.

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