Joseph Roach
Biographic Data
| ID | 3832963 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joseph Roach |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joseph |
| FAMILY NAME | Roach |
| SIGNATURE | ROACH J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Professor at Tullane University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Long View-Recollections, Remembrances, and Recommendations for Theatre Journal: A Conversation with Joseph Roach
The Long View—Recollections, Remembrances, and Recommendations for Theatre Journal: A Conversation with Joseph Roach Joseph Roach (bio) and Carla Neuss (bio) This interview was conducted in June 2023 at Yale University through the support and generosity of the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, UCLA, and ATHE; it has been edited for clarity and length. Joe Roach (JR): My first article was in Theatre Journal in 1976. Virginia Scott was the editor—the…
Presence and the Stuff That Isn’t There
The current theory of “camera presence” derives from ancient and early modern sources in theology, natural philosophy, rhetoric, and eventually science. As music depends on silence, “presence” in these disciplines depends on absence, and authorities framed their understanding of the expressiveness of actors by analogizing their performances to “electrical fire” based on the reciprocal action of positive and negative charges as effected by “phlogi…
Alun Withey. Concerning Beards: Facial Hair, Health and Practice in England 1650–1900
As the second title in the series “Facialities: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Human Face,” Alun Withey’s Concerning Beards probes the history of the natural part of human physiognomy that, eyebrows excepted, is the easiest to change. This exceptionally well-documented study tells not one but three interrelated stories about how dramatically beard-wearing evolved in early modern and modern Britain. Building on part 1, “Contexts,” which p…
Dreaming New Orleans: Desire, Cemeteries, and Elysian Fields
Having passed the tercentenary of the “Mississippi Bubble” of 1720, the financial fiasco that accompanied the founding of New Orleans, the city continues to risk everything by gambling on the collateral of its dreams. Like Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire , “The City that Care Forgot” is playing out a mortgage melodrama under constant threat of dispossession, dreading the last stop on an itinerary that begins with Desire, changes at Cem…
Algorithms and Performance: An Introduction
December 01 2019 Algorithms and Performance: An Introduction Elise Morrison, Elise Morrison Elise Morrison, Assistant Professor of Theater Studies at Yale University, is the author of Discipline and Desire: Surveillance Technologies in Performance (University of Michigan Press, 2016). She is Associate Editor for the International Journal of Performance Art and Digital Media. [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This S…
After Live: Possibility, Potentiality, and the Future of Performance
September 01 2017 After Live: Possibility, Potentiality, and the Future of Performance After Live: Possibility, Potentiality, and the Future of Performance. By DanielSack. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015; 260 pp.; $75.00 cloth, $34.95 paper, e-book available. Joseph Roach Joseph Roach Joseph Roach is Sterling Professor of Theater at Yale University. [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Sch…
Who Has Seen the Most
In all of theatrical history, one theatre-goer has seen more plays than any other. Who knows who that person is? TDR does
Concerning Theory for Performance Studies
In 2007, Routledge published Theory for Performance Studies as part of its Theory 4 series, listing Philip Auslander as author. When, in August, The Chronicle of Higher Education revealed that much of the book was lifted word-for-word from the template for the series, Theory for Religious Studies by Timothy K. Beal and William E. Deal, TDR editor Richard Schechner convened via email and phone conversations a “TDR Forum,” asking leaders in the fie…
Public Intimacy: The Prior History of ‘It’
There is a certain quality, easy to perceive but hard to define, possessed by abnormally interesting people. Call it ‘it’. For the sake of clarity, let ‘it’, as a pronoun aspiring to the condition of a noun, be capitalised hereafter, except where it appears in its ordinary pronominal role. Most of us immediately assume that ‘It’ has to do with sex, and we’re right, but mainly because everything has to do with sex. Most of us also think that ‘It’ …
It
It Joseph Roach (bio) Abstract Often heard now as slang for sexual allure and familiarly associated with the so-called “It Girl,” silent-screen star Clara Bow, It refers to a widely acknowledged but largely unexamined attribute of the performer. Popular usage has turned the pronoun into a noun, referring implicitly to sex while evading precise definition or explanation, even though acting theorists have long noted the phenomenon of a less narrowl…
Celebrity Erotics: Pepys, Performance, and Painted Ladies
From the medieval to the early modern period, funeral effigies-- images of deceased monarchs sculpted from wood or wax and dressed in their own clothes--accompanied the corpses of English kings. Although this quaint performance lapsed with the burial of Charles II, other methods of circulating personal images in the absence of the persons themselves proliferated during his reign. The diarist Samuel Pepys records the erotic dimensions of the exper…
Flickless in Dublin
Seven sections follow, corresponding to the seven obligatory parts of the Hollywood formula screenplay. They have been re-formatted to fit your journal
The Great Hole of History: Liturgical Silence in Beckett, Osofisan, and Parks
The South Atlantic Quarterly - Volume 100, Number 1, Winter 2001
Barnumizing Diaspora: The "Irish Skylark" Does New Orleans
Barnumizing Diaspora: The “Irish Skylark” Does New Orleans Joseph Roach (bio) Part of the experience of starving to death is the shame of it. The skeletonized exterior betrays the internalized cannibalism of the famished body digesting its own organs. By disclosing the secret of such a Thyestian feast (a body so abject as to be denied any source of nourishment except itself), starvation stigmatizes the afflicted, condemning them to social death. …
Shakespeare's Festive Tragedy: The Ritual Foundations of Genre
Cities of the Dead: Circum-Atlantic Performance
Introduction: History, Memory, and PerformanceCircum-Atlantic MemoryLocations and BearingsMaterials and MethodsThe Everlasting ClubGenealogies of Performance2. Echoes in the BoneThe EffigyPerforming OriginsThe Segregation of the DeadBodies of LawCongo SqaureThe King is Dead-Long Live the King!3. Betterton's FuneralSticks and Rags: The Celebrity as EffigyVortices of BehaviorThe Life of Betterton: Talking with the DadCanonical Memory and Theatrical…
Fatal Women: Lesbian Sexuality and the Mark of Aggression (review)
Reviewed by: Fatal Women: Lesbian Sexuality and the Mark of Aggression Joseph Roach Fatal Women Lesbian Sexuality and the Mark of Aggression. By Lynda Hart. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1994; pp. xiii + 201. $35.00 cloth, $14.95 paper. “Criminals,” Michel Foucault noted, “come in handy.” They certainly do for Lynda Hart, who dedicates Fatal Women, her mordant study of women who kill, to Aileen Wuornos, the Florida prostitute…
"Responses to W. B. Worthen's "Disciplines of the Text/Sites of Performance
Economies of Abundance
Critical Theory and Performance
Theory and presents a broad range of critical and theoretical methods, and applies them to contemporary and historical performance genres - from stage plays, dance-dramas, performance art, cabaret, stand-up comedy, and jazz to circus, street theater, and shamanistic ritual. As the first comprehensive introduction to critical theory's rich and diverse contributions to the study of drama, theater, and performance, the book has been highly influenti…
Material girls: Madonna and women beware women
(1994). Material girls: Madonna and women beware women. Continuum: Vol. 7, Screening Cultural Studies, pp. 92-108
Carnival and the Law in New Orleans
Critical Theory and Performance
Normal heartlands
Slave Spectacles and Tragic Octoroons: A Cultural Genealogy of Antebellum Performance
In recent critical theory, the word performance has undergone a significant expansion, some would say an inflation. As the Editor's Note to the May issue of PMLA ("Special Topic: Performance") observes, "What once was an event has become a critical category, now applied to everything from a play to a war to a meal. The performative ... is a cultural act, a critical perspective, a political intervention." Theatre historians will perhaps greet such…
Slave Spectacles and Tragic Octoroons: A Cultural Genealogy of Antebellum Performance
In recent critical theory, the word performance has undergone a significant expansion, some would say an inflation. As the Editor's Note to the May issue of PMLA ("Special Topic: Performance") observes, "What once was an event has become a critical category, now applied to everything from a play to a war to a meal. The performative ... is a cultural act, a critical perspective, a political intervention." Theatre historians will perhaps greet such…
Mardi Gras Indians and Others: Genealogies of American Performance
In the mouth of Salem Scudder, a homespun character in the Anglo-American tradition of Yankee Jonathan, the word selvage does a lot of work in Boucicault's play. It literally means the edge of a fabric woven thickly so that it will not ravel. It more figuratively suggests a margin, a boundary, or a perimeter that by opposition defines the center--in short, a frontier. The Octoroon, a popular melodrama of miscegenation and intercultural displaceme…
It
It Joseph Roach (bio) Abstract Often heard now as slang for sexual allure and familiarly associated with the so-called “It Girl,” silent-screen star Clara Bow, It refers to a widely acknowledged but largely unexamined attribute of the performer. Popular usage has turned the pronoun into a noun, referring implicitly to sex while evading precise definition or explanation, even though acting theorists have long noted the phenomenon of a less narrowl…
Carnival and the Law in New Orleans
Barnumizing Diaspora: The "Irish Skylark" Does New Orleans
Barnumizing Diaspora: The “Irish Skylark” Does New Orleans Joseph Roach (bio) Part of the experience of starving to death is the shame of it. The skeletonized exterior betrays the internalized cannibalism of the famished body digesting its own organs. By disclosing the secret of such a Thyestian feast (a body so abject as to be denied any source of nourishment except itself), starvation stigmatizes the afflicted, condemning them to social death. …
Garrick Claims the Stage: Acting as Social Emblem in Eighteenth-Century England
Cities of the Dead: Circum-Atlantic Performance
Introduction: History, Memory, and PerformanceCircum-Atlantic MemoryLocations and BearingsMaterials and MethodsThe Everlasting ClubGenealogies of Performance2. Echoes in the BoneThe EffigyPerforming OriginsThe Segregation of the DeadBodies of LawCongo SqaureThe King is Dead-Long Live the King!3. Betterton's FuneralSticks and Rags: The Celebrity as EffigyVortices of BehaviorThe Life of Betterton: Talking with the DadCanonical Memory and Theatrical…
Critical Theory and Performance
Theory and presents a broad range of critical and theoretical methods, and applies them to contemporary and historical performance genres - from stage plays, dance-dramas, performance art, cabaret, stand-up comedy, and jazz to circus, street theater, and shamanistic ritual. As the first comprehensive introduction to critical theory's rich and diverse contributions to the study of drama, theater, and performance, the book has been highly influenti…
Theatre History and the Ideology of the Aesthetic
When Napoleon Bonaparte set forth on his Egyptian campaign of 1798, he had included among the indispensable provisions his corps de ballet. The troupe embarked along with the more mundane objects assembled by Gallic logisticians--the cannons, the cognac, the pat --under orders of the commander in chief: Tell those young ladies to behave themselves, or I'll give them a general for director, and he'll make them march like soldiers.' Of course, Napo…
G. H. Lewes and Performance Theory: "Towards a "Science of Acting
G. H. Lewes and Performance Theory: "Towards a "Science of Acting
Diderot and the Actor's Machine
On the notorious question of sensibility—whether or not an actor should really “feel” the emotion he expresses—Denis Diderot brought off the best known volte-face in the history of acting theory. An erstwhile champion of inspiration and emotionality in theatrical performance, he came to believe, by the time he wrote the Paradoxe sur le comédien (1773), that an actor should not attempt to experience inwardly the passions he enacts onstage. Conside…
Garrick, the Ghost and the Machine
The name of one Perkins, hair-dresser and wig-maker, enters into the history of the eighteenth-century stage on the strength of a technical contribution to David Garrick's Hamlet. The actor employed Perkins's services to enliven the Prince's first encounter with his father's ghost, a scene in which Garrick's famous start made Lichtenberg's flesh creep, set poor Partridge's knees to knocking, and moved Dr. Johnson to express concern over the effec…
Garrick Claims the Stage: Acting as Social Emblem in Eighteenth-Century England
David Garrick
The Player's Passion: Studies in the Science of Acting
This reinterpretation of acting theories in light of the history of science examines acting styles from the seventeenth century to the twentieth century and measures them against prevailing conceptions of the human body and its inner workings
Theatre History and the Ideology of the Aesthetic
When Napoleon Bonaparte set forth on his Egyptian campaign of 1798, he had included among the indispensable provisions his corps de ballet. The troupe embarked along with the more mundane objects assembled by Gallic logisticians--the cannons, the cognac, the pat --under orders of the commander in chief: Tell those young ladies to behave themselves, or I'll give them a general for director, and he'll make them march like soldiers.' Of course, Napo…
Normal heartlands
Slave Spectacles and Tragic Octoroons: A Cultural Genealogy of Antebellum Performance
In recent critical theory, the word performance has undergone a significant expansion, some would say an inflation. As the Editor's Note to the May issue of PMLA ("Special Topic: Performance") observes, "What once was an event has become a critical category, now applied to everything from a play to a war to a meal. The performative ... is a cultural act, a critical perspective, a political intervention." Theatre historians will perhaps greet such…
Mardi Gras Indians and Others: Genealogies of American Performance
In the mouth of Salem Scudder, a homespun character in the Anglo-American tradition of Yankee Jonathan, the word selvage does a lot of work in Boucicault's play. It literally means the edge of a fabric woven thickly so that it will not ravel. It more figuratively suggests a margin, a boundary, or a perimeter that by opposition defines the center--in short, a frontier. The Octoroon, a popular melodrama of miscegenation and intercultural displaceme…
Carnival and the Law in New Orleans
Critical Theory and Performance
Critical Theory and Performance
Theory and presents a broad range of critical and theoretical methods, and applies them to contemporary and historical performance genres - from stage plays, dance-dramas, performance art, cabaret, stand-up comedy, and jazz to circus, street theater, and shamanistic ritual. As the first comprehensive introduction to critical theory's rich and diverse contributions to the study of drama, theater, and performance, the book has been highly influenti…
Material girls: Madonna and women beware women
(1994). Material girls: Madonna and women beware women. Continuum: Vol. 7, Screening Cultural Studies, pp. 92-108
"Responses to W. B. Worthen's "Disciplines of the Text/Sites of Performance
Economies of Abundance
Fatal Women: Lesbian Sexuality and the Mark of Aggression (review)
Reviewed by: Fatal Women: Lesbian Sexuality and the Mark of Aggression Joseph Roach Fatal Women Lesbian Sexuality and the Mark of Aggression. By Lynda Hart. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1994; pp. xiii + 201. $35.00 cloth, $14.95 paper. “Criminals,” Michel Foucault noted, “come in handy.” They certainly do for Lynda Hart, who dedicates Fatal Women, her mordant study of women who kill, to Aileen Wuornos, the Florida prostitute…
Shakespeare's Festive Tragedy: The Ritual Foundations of Genre
Cities of the Dead: Circum-Atlantic Performance
Introduction: History, Memory, and PerformanceCircum-Atlantic MemoryLocations and BearingsMaterials and MethodsThe Everlasting ClubGenealogies of Performance2. Echoes in the BoneThe EffigyPerforming OriginsThe Segregation of the DeadBodies of LawCongo SqaureThe King is Dead-Long Live the King!3. Betterton's FuneralSticks and Rags: The Celebrity as EffigyVortices of BehaviorThe Life of Betterton: Talking with the DadCanonical Memory and Theatrical…
Barnumizing Diaspora: The "Irish Skylark" Does New Orleans
Barnumizing Diaspora: The “Irish Skylark” Does New Orleans Joseph Roach (bio) Part of the experience of starving to death is the shame of it. The skeletonized exterior betrays the internalized cannibalism of the famished body digesting its own organs. By disclosing the secret of such a Thyestian feast (a body so abject as to be denied any source of nourishment except itself), starvation stigmatizes the afflicted, condemning them to social death. …
The Great Hole of History: Liturgical Silence in Beckett, Osofisan, and Parks
The South Atlantic Quarterly - Volume 100, Number 1, Winter 2001
Flickless in Dublin
Seven sections follow, corresponding to the seven obligatory parts of the Hollywood formula screenplay. They have been re-formatted to fit your journal
Celebrity Erotics: Pepys, Performance, and Painted Ladies
From the medieval to the early modern period, funeral effigies-- images of deceased monarchs sculpted from wood or wax and dressed in their own clothes--accompanied the corpses of English kings. Although this quaint performance lapsed with the burial of Charles II, other methods of circulating personal images in the absence of the persons themselves proliferated during his reign. The diarist Samuel Pepys records the erotic dimensions of the exper…
It
It Joseph Roach (bio) Abstract Often heard now as slang for sexual allure and familiarly associated with the so-called “It Girl,” silent-screen star Clara Bow, It refers to a widely acknowledged but largely unexamined attribute of the performer. Popular usage has turned the pronoun into a noun, referring implicitly to sex while evading precise definition or explanation, even though acting theorists have long noted the phenomenon of a less narrowl…
Public Intimacy: The Prior History of ‘It’
There is a certain quality, easy to perceive but hard to define, possessed by abnormally interesting people. Call it ‘it’. For the sake of clarity, let ‘it’, as a pronoun aspiring to the condition of a noun, be capitalised hereafter, except where it appears in its ordinary pronominal role. Most of us immediately assume that ‘It’ has to do with sex, and we’re right, but mainly because everything has to do with sex. Most of us also think that ‘It’ …
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