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The Theatricalists - Making Politics Appear

by Theron Schmidt

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 Theatricality is often dismissed as a distraction from â€œrealâ€ politics, as when cynical political gestures are derided as â€œpureâ€ or â€œonly theater.â€ But the artists and theater companies discussed in this book, including Back to Back Theatre, Tim Crouch, Rabih MrouÃ©, Nature Theater of Oklahoma, and Christoph Schlingensief, take a different approach.
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Transoceanic Blackface - Empire, Race, Performance

by Kellen Hoxworth

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 Tracing intertwined histories of racialized performance from the mid-eighteenth through the early twentieth century across the US and the British Empire, this study maps the circulations of blackface repertoires in theatrical spectacles, popular songs, visual materials, comic operas, closet dramas, dance forms, and Shakespearean burlesques.
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Theater Of Capital - Modern Drama And Economic Life

by Alisa Zhulina

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 Emerging amid the turbulent rise of market finance and wider socioeconomic changes, modern drama enacted vital critiques of art and life under capitalism. Alisa Zhulina shows how fin-de-siecle playwrights such as Ibsen, Strindberg and Chekhov interrogated the meaning of this newly coined economic concept.
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Restaging The Future - Neoliberalization, Theater, And Performance In Britain

by Louise Owen

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 Post-Thatcher, British cultural politics were shaped by the governmentâ€™s use of the arts in service of its own social and economic agenda. This book interrogates how arts practices and cultural institutions were enmeshed with the particular processes of neoliberalization mobilized at the end of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first.
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Encounters On Contested Lands - Indigenous Performances Of Sovereignty And Nationhood In Québec

by Julie Burelle

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 Encounters on Contested Lands analyzes films, plays, visual art, and protest marches by Indigenous artists in QuÃ¯Â¿Â½bec, Canada, to explore the performance of cultural identity, sovereignty, and nationhood in QuÃ¯Â¿Â½bec's independence movement.
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Populism And Performance In The Bolivarian Revolution Of Venezuela

by Angela Marino

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 Offers an innovative examination of how supporters of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez engaged in performance practice to build and negotiate the terms of populism. In Angela Marino's analysis populism is the practice of politics by ordinary people, which may include a variety of behaviours and forms of cultural production in live events, media, and the built environment.
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Latinx Theater In The Times Of Neoliberalism

by Patricia A. Ybarra

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 Traces how Latino theatre in the United States has engaged with the policies, procedures, and outcomes of neoliberal economics in the Americas from the 1970s to the present. Patricia Ybarra examines IMF interventions, NAFTA, shifts in immigration policy, the escalation of border industrialization initiatives, and austerity programs, and the response of Latino artists.
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Time Slips - Queer Temporalities, Contemporary Performance, And The Hole Of History

by Jaclyn Pryor

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 Investigates how performance can transform the way people perceive trauma and memory, time and history. Pryor introduces the concept of "time slips", moments in which past, present, and future coincide, moments that challenge American narratives of racial and sexual citizenship.
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Scene Of Foreplay - Theater, Labor, And Leisure In 1960s New York

by Giulia Palladini

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 <div><i>The Scene of Foreplay: Theater, Labor, and Leisure in 1960s New York</i> suggests "foreplay" as a theoretical framework for understanding a particular mode of performance production. That mode exists outside of predetermined structures of recognition in terms of professionalism, artistic achievement, and a logic of eventfulness. Foreplay denotes a peculiar way of working and inhabiting time in performance. It is recognized as emblematic of a constellation of artists in the 1960s New York scene, including Ellen Stewart, John Vaccaro, Ruby Lynn Reyner, Jackie Curtis, Andy Warhol, Tom Eyen, Jack Smith, and Penny Arcade.<br> <br> Matching an original approach to historical materials and theoretical reflection, Palladini addresses the peculiar forms of production, reproduction, and consumption developed in the 1960s as labors of love, creating for artists a condition of "preliminarity" toward professional work and also functioning as a counterforce within productive economy, as a prelude where value is not yet assigned to labor.<br> <br> <i>The Scene of Foreplay</i> proposes that such labors of love can be considered both as paradigmatic for contemporary forms of precarious labor and also resonating with echoes from marginal histories of the performing arts, in a nonlinear genealogy of queer resistance to ideas of capitalist productivity and professionalism. The book offers much for those interested in performance theory as well asin the history of theater and performance arts in the 1960s.<br> </div>
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From Scenarios To Networks - Performing The Intercultural In Colonial Mexico

by Leo Cabranes-Grant

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 <div> <div> <p>In this innovative study, Leo Cabranes-Grant analyzes four intercultural events in the Viceroyalty of New Spain that took place between 1566 and 1690. Rather than relying on racial labels to describe alterations of identity, Cabranes-Grant focuses on experimentation, rehearsal, and the interaction between bodies and objects. His analysis shows how scenarios are invested with affective qualities, which in turn enable cultural and semiotic change. Central to his argument is Bruno Latour’s Actor-Network Theory, which figures society as a constantly evolving web of relationships among objects, people, and spaces. In examining these scenarios, Cabranes-Grant attempts to discern the reasons why the conditions of an intensified moment within this ceaseless flow take on a particular value and inspire their re-creation. Cabranes-Grant offers a fresh perspective on Latour’s theory and reorients debates concerning history and historiography in the field of performance studies.</p> <p> </p> </div> </div>
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Drop Dead - Performance In Crisis, 1970s New York

by Hillary Miller

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 Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--City University of New York, 2013.
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Encounters On Contested Lands - Indigenous Performances Of Sovereignty And Nationhood In Quebec

by Julie Burelle

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 Employs a performance studies lens to examine how instances of Indigenous self-representation in QuÃ©bec challenge the national and identity discourses of the French QuÃ©bÃ©cois de souche - the French-speaking descendants of white European settlers who understand themselves to be settlers no more but rather colonized.
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Intimate Inequalities - Performing Migrant Domestic Work

by Ella Parry-Davies

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Performing Citizenship In Postdictatorship Chile - Cultural Policy And The Making Of Political Dramaturgies

by Jennifer Joan Thompson

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Intimate Inequalities - Performing Migrant Domestic Work

by Ella Parry-Davies

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Performing Citizenship In Postdictatorship Chile - Cultural Policy And The Making Of Political Dramaturgies

by Jennifer Joan Thompson

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Muscle Works - Physical Culture And The Performance Of Masculinity

by Broderick D.V. Chow

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 Recounts the story of fitness culture from its beginnings as spectacles of strongmen, weightlifters, acrobats, and wrestlers to its legitimization in the twentieth-century in the form of competitive sports and health and wellness practices.
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Muscle Works - Physical Culture And The Performance Of Masculinity

by Broderick D.V. Chow

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 Recounts the story of fitness culture from its beginnings as spectacles of strongmen, weightlifters, acrobats, and wrestlers to its legitimization in the twentieth-century in the form of competitive sports and health and wellness practices.
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Transoceanic Blackface - Empire, Race, Performance

by Kellen Hoxworth

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 Tracing intertwined histories of racialized performance from the mid-eighteenth through the early twentieth century across the US and the British Empire, this study maps the circulations of blackface repertoires in theatrical spectacles, popular songs, visual materials, comic operas, closet dramas, dance forms, and Shakespearean burlesques.
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Theater Of Capital - Modern Drama And Economic Life

by Alisa Zhulina

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 Emerging amid the turbulent rise of market finance and wider socioeconomic changes, modern drama enacted vital critiques of art and life under capitalism. Alisa Zhulina shows how fin-de-siecle playwrights such as Ibsen, Strindberg and Chekhov interrogated the meaning of this newly coined economic concept.
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The Perfect Bastard - Poems

by Quinn Carver Johnson

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 An innovative poetic interrogation of wrestling, queerness, and staying true to oneself. Quinn Carver Johnson's debut collection follows its titular protagonist, a nonbinary and queer professional wrestler, as they travel across Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Missouri, working for a booker known as the Puppeteer.
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Dare The Sea - Stories

by Ali Hosseini

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 The debut short-story collection in English from acclaimed fiction writer Ali Hosseini. The stories in Dare the Sea explore Iran's landscape, culture, and the undercurrent of change affecting its people - both in Iran and the United States.
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Theatricality Of The Closet - Fashion, Performance, And Subjectivity Between Victorian Britain And Meiji Japan

by Michelle Liu Carriger

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 Clothing matters. This basic axiom is both common sense and, in another way, radical. It is from this starting point that Michelle Liu Carriger elucidates the interconnected ways in which gender, sexuality, class, and race are created by the everyday act of getting dressed.
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Theatricality Of The Closet - Fashion, Performance, And Subjectivity Between Victorian Britain And Meiji Japan

by Michelle Liu Carriger

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 Clothing matters. This basic axiom is both common sense and, in another way, radical. It is from this starting point that Michelle Liu Carriger elucidates the interconnected ways in which gender, sexuality, class, and race are created by the everyday act of getting dressed.
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