Sikes traces the shifting role of performance in the fashioning of subjectivity from the Modern to the Postmodern eras. The book joins history and historiography and is grounded in a body of research about varied performance subjects from court dance, ballet, opera, festivals, celebrations, propaganda films, Hollywood movies to reality TV.

ALAN SIKES is Assistant Professor of Theatre at Hunter College at the City University of New York, USA.

Identity and Representation in the Modern and Postmodern Eras The Performance of Privilege in the Reign of Louis XIV The Rise and Fall of the Castrato Singer Citizen Action and the Libratory Legacy of the French Revolution The Hysterical Woman From Zola to Freud Benjamin, Adorno, and the Politics of Mediatization Performativity and the Horizon of Hegemony