FRS 131 - Acting Up
Librarian: Joy Pastucha , ext. 3063
Books, Videos & CDs:
Reference books and all of the library’s other books and media can be found through Our Library Catalog that includes links to most of our electronic books (e-books) as well. Some relevant subjects to check are theater--anthropological aspects , theater--political aspects, street theater, or names of individuals or groups related to performance studies. Try such names as authors as well.For books in other libraries, select:
Other
Library
Catalogs (the local public library, UNC-A, UNC-CH, and others)
WorldCat
(the worldwide library catalog)
NetLibrary and other E-Book
Collections (full-text links to e-books)
Articles & Databases:
These "Big Full Text" databases
cover all subjects and contain many full-text articles:
Academic Search Premier
MasterFILE Premier
OmniFile Full Text
Proquest Research Library
JSTOR
: The Scholarly Journal Archive--full-text backfiles, not
current years, of key scholarly journals.
Online Reference Databases:
Biography Resource Center
Britannica Online
Literary Reference Center
Literature Resource Center
Subject Specialized Databases:
America:
History and Life--index with abstracts (no full-text) to
North American history from pre-history to present day.
AnthroSource--the American Anthropological Association (AAA)
database of online anthropological material.
Historical Abstracts--index with abstracts to world history
(excluding North America) from about 1450.
MLA International Bibliography--indexes (no abstracts) critical works on literature.
PsycArticles--full text articles from about 40 American Psychological Association journals.
PsycINFO--index with abstracts to the international literature on psychology and related disciplines.
Sociological Abstracts--index with abstracts to the international literature in sociology and related disciplines.
Others:
Alternative
Press Index and
Archives--indexes over 250 "alternative" (not mainstream)
publications covering cultural, economic, political & social
changes. Coverage is international and interdisciplinary from
1969 to present.
New York
Times--full-text coverage of the leading U.S. newspaper from
1995-present.
New York Times Historical--full-text coverage back to its
beginning in 1851 up through 2003.
Web Sites:
Major Figures:
Laurie Anderson
Guillermo Gomez-Pena
Spalding Gray
Tim Miller
Annie Sprinkle
Performance Studies :
Marina Abramovic: Seven Easy Pieces
Judith Butler
Clifford Geertz
Erving Goffman
Performance Studies International
Anna Deavere Smith
Wikipedia: "Performance Studies"
Political Theatre:
Act Up!
Associacion Madres d plaza de Mayo
Bread and Puppet Theater
CIRCA--Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army
Forced Entertainment
Greenpeace International
Greenpeace USA
International Theatre of the Oppressed
The Living Theatre
Reverend Billy
El Teatro Campesino
Welfare State International
About Annotated Bibliographies:
Annotated Bibliographies, courtesy Purdue
How to Prepare, courtesy Cornell
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