Baring Withness
Community, Performance, and the Uncommon In and Around the Virginia Theatre in Champaign, Illinois
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2385019 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nathaniel Kohn (University of Georgia), Rebecca Cain (0000-0001-9453-0667, Virginia Theatre) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 351-368 |
| Publication date | 2005-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Qualitative Inquiry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1077-8004 • E-ISSN: 1552-7565 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1077800405275053 |
| OpenAlex | W1982511618 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
This article examines the performative potentials of solitary individuals watching films together in a grand restored movie palace and how those performances contribute to creating and redefining community as an inclusive human activity. The authors invoke the work of such continental thinkers as Giorgio Agamben, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Jean Baudrillard to see how the shared viewing experience, in all its mystery, can be transported fromthe theatre into the streets of a medium-sized American city and the everyday lives of those who live there. More traditional, exclusive community theory is examined and critiqued as the authors work to identify what Agamben called the "coming community" and see how theatre and performance can help inspire something new-an uncommon commonality
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Autoethnography · Media studies · Performance art · Performance studies · Performative utterance · Sociology · Visual arts · Anthropology · Cinema and Media Studies · Gender Studies · Law in Society and Culture · Theatre and Performance Studies
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |