Topic · Theatre and Performance Studies
Most cited papers in Theatre and Performance Studies
What are the most cited papers in Theatre and Performance Studies?
The most cited paper in Theatre and Performance Studies is "Speaking. From Intention to Articulation" (David N. Caplan, 1990), with 4,063 citations. Next come "Performance Studies: An Introduction" (2,283) and "Performing Autoethnography: An Embodied Methodological Praxis" (1,132).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 101 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Speaking. From Intention to Articulation David N. Caplan · Trends in Neurosciences | Aug 1990 | 4,063 |
| 2 | Performance Studies: An Introduction Philip C. Kolin, Richard Schechner · World Literature Today | 2003 | 2,283 |
| 3 | Performing Autoethnography: An Embodied Methodological Praxis Tami Spry · Qualitative Inquiry | Dec 2001 | 1,132 |
| 4 | Performance Ethnography: Critical Pedagogy and the Politics of Culture Norman K. Denzin | 2003 | 838 |
| 5 | The reflexive interview and a performative social science Norman K. Denzin · Qualitative Research | Apr 2001 | 830 |
| 6 | Performing remains art and war in times of theatrical reenactment Rebecca S. Schneider | 2011 | 632 |
| 7 | Releasing the Imagination Maxine Greene · NJ | 2011 | 608 |
| 8 | Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors: Symbolic Action in Human Society Anthony J. Blasi, Victor W. Turner, Barbara G. Myerhoff · Sociological Analysis | 1974 | 561 |
| 9 | Suspensions of perception: Attention, spectacle, and modern culture Richard Shiff · Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences | Mar 2001 | 553 |
| 10 | Dramas of Nationhood: The Politics of Television in Egypt Mark Allen Peterson · Visual Anthropology Review | Mar 2005 | 543 |
| 11 | Troubling vision: Performance, visuality and blackness Rose M. Kim · Visual Studies | 7 Feb 2012 | 528 |
| 12 | Dead Geographies—And How to Make Them Live Nigel J. Thrift, John-David C Dewsbury · Environment and Planning D Society and Space | Aug 2000 | 510 |
| 13 | How performatives work John Rogers Searle · Linguistics and Philosophy | Oct 1989 | 493 |
| 14 | Mimesis as Make-Beleive Noël Carroll, Kendall L. Walton · The Philosophical Quarterly | 1995 | 487 |
| 15 | Performing as a moral act:1Ethical dimensions of the ethnography of performance Dwight Conquergood · Text and Performance Quarterly | Apr 1985 | 461 |
| 16 | Dramaturgy and Social Movements: The Social Construction and Communication of Power* Robert D. Benford, Scott A. Hunt · Sociological Inquiry | 1992 | 443 |
| 17 | Enacting the ‘true self’: Towards a theory of embodied authentic leadership Donna Ladkin, Steven S. Taylor · The Leadership Quarterly | 17 Dec 2009 | 354 |
| 18 | Performance under Stress Emma Kirton · Ergonomics | May 2009 | 314 |
| 19 | Performativity and the Event: Enacting a Philosophy of Difference John-David C Dewsbury · Environment and Planning D Society and Space | Aug 2000 | 289 |
| 20 | All Made Up: Performance Theory and the New Anthropology of Sex and Gender Rosalind C. Morris · Annual Review of Anthropology | Oct 1995 | 288 |
| 21 | Disability and Contemporary Performance: Bodies on the Edge Petra Küppers | 16 Dec 2003 | 286 |
| 22 | Dramatizing Data: A Primer Johnny Saldaña · Qualitative Inquiry | Apr 2003 | 275 |
| 23 | Behind the Mask of the Strong Black Woman: Voice and the Embodiment of a Costly Performance Averil Y. Clarke · Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews | Sep 2010 | 269 |
| 24 | After the party: a manifesto for queer of color life Anna M. Moncada Storti · Women & Performance a journal of feminist theory | 2 Jan 2019 | 265 |
| 25 | Performance and performativity at heritage sites Gaynor Bagnall · Museum and Society | 6 Mar 2015 | 249 |
| 26 | Personal narrative, performance, performativity: Two or three things I know for sure Kristin M. Langellier · Text and Performance Quarterly | Apr 1999 | 239 |
| 27 | Thinking about feeling historical Lauren Berlant · Emotion, space and society | Oct 2008 | 239 |
| 28 | SERUM-PHENYTOIN Brittany Miles, E.C. Attwood, R.M. Seddon · The Lancet | 1976 | 236 |
| 29 | The Meaning of the Steps is in Between: Dancing and the Curse of Compliments Franca Tamisari · The Australian Journal of Anthropology | Aug 2000 | 215 |
| 30 | Resources in play: Bricolage in the Toy Store(y) Ted Baker · Journal of Business Venturing | 17 Nov 2006 | 212 |
| 31 | Thinking through the Body: Essays in Somaesthetics Richard Marc Shusterman | 17 Sep 2012 | 209 |
| 32 | Becoming A/r/tography Rita L. Irwin · Studies in Art Education | Apr 2013 | 201 |
| 33 | The eyes of the people: Democracy in an age of spectatorship Holly Arden · Visual Studies | 21 Oct 2011 | 199 |
| 34 | Are there universals of performance in myth, ritual, and drama? Victor W. Turner · Cambridge University Press eBooks | 25 May 1990 | 195 |
| 35 | Living Bodies of Thought Stacy Holman Jones · Qualitative Inquiry | 3 Mar 2016 | 185 |
| 36 | Performing the (Sound)World Susan J. Smith · Environment and Planning D Society and Space | Oct 2000 | 182 |
| 37 | Body, Paper, Stage: Writing and Performing Autoethnography Amy LeAnn Zsohar · Text and Performance Quarterly | 24 Jul 2012 | 180 |
| 38 | THE PASSION OF PERPETUA Brent Donald Shaw · Past & Present | 1993 | 178 |
| 39 | Acting together: ensemble as a democratic process in art and life Jonothan Neelands · Research in Drama Education The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance | May 2009 | 172 |
| 40 | The Effect of Drama-Based Pedagogy on PreK–16 Outcomes Bridget Kiger Lee, Erika A. Patall, Stephanie Washbourn Cawthon et al. · Review of Educational Research | 2 Jul 2014 | 166 |
| 41 | The art of the stage set as a paradigm for an aesthetics of atmospheres Gernot Böhme · Ambiances | 2013 | 165 |
| 42 | Structures of Unfeeling: Mysterious Skin Lauren Berlant · International Journal of Politics Culture and Society | 10 Mar 2015 | 163 |
| 43 | Family Theory Versus the Theories Families Live By Kerry Daly · Journal of Marriage and the Family | Nov 2003 | 162 |
| 44 | Ethnography, rhetoric, and performance Dwight Conquergood · Quarterly Journal of Speech | Feb 1992 | 162 |
| 45 | Closer: Performance, Technologies, Phenomenology Jennifer Parker-Starbuck · Contemporary Theatre Review | May 2009 | 161 |
| 46 | Corps de Ballet: the case of the injured ballet dancer Bryan Stanley Turner, Steven P. Wainwright · Sociology of Health & Illness | 24 Mar 2003 | 159 |
| 47 | Do Voices Matter? Vocality, Materiality, Gender Performativity Annette Schlichter · Body & Society | Mar 2011 | 151 |
| 48 | Theories of the Theatre: A Historical and Critical Survey, from the Greeks to the Present Xerxes Mehta, Marvin A. Carlson · Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism | 1987 | 151 |
| 49 | Poetics, play, process, and power: The performative turn in anthropology Dwight Gonquergood · Text and Performance Quarterly | 1989 | 149 |
| 50 | Performance Affects: Applied Theatre and the End of Effect James Westfall Thompson | 28 Apr 2009 | 149 |
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