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In the tradition of Hamilton and Angels in America, a powerful,
politically charged, dystopian drama that couldn't be more timely.
Written in a "white-hot fury" on the eve of the 2016 election, the
stunning new play by Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning
dramatist Robert Schenkkan is creating a nationwide sensation.
Bypassing the usual development path for plays, it has been signed
up to open in five theaters across America in a National New Play
Network Rolling World Premiere, starting in Los Angeles (March) and
Denver (April) and continuing in the Washington, DC, area, Tucson,
and Miami, with more productions to follow, including in Santa Fe
and New York City. Building the Wall lays out in a harrowing drama
the possible consequences of Donald Trump's anti-immigration
campaign rhetoric turned into federal policy. Two years from now,
that policy has resulted in the mass round-up of millions of
illegal aliens, with their incarceration overflowing into private
prisons and camps reminiscent of another century. The former warden
for one facility is awaiting sentencing for what happened under his
watch. In a riveting interview with a historian who has come
seeking the truth, he gradually reveals how the unthinkable became
the inevitable, and the faceless illegals under his charge became
the face of tragedy. The play is accompanied by commentary from
three prominent scholars: on the real purpose of the border wall,
our dark nativist history of restricting immigration, and the
tradition of political protest in art.
At once radical, controversial and revered, Marina Abramovic (*1946
in Belgrade, Serbia) is one of the most discussed artists today.
Famous for her groundbreaking performance works, she continues to
expand the boundaries of art. The publication accompanying her
first major retrospective in Europe gives an extensive overview of
her work from the earliest years until today: film, photography,
paintings and objects, installations and archival material.Since
the early 1970s Marina Abramovic explores the intersection between
performing and visual art in her work and, though rarely overtly
political, poses questions of power and hierarchy. In addressing
fundamental issues of our existence and seeking the core of notions
like loss, memory, pain, endurance, and trust, she both provokes
and moves us. (German edition ISBN 978-3-7757-4262-7, Swedish
edition ISBN 978-3-7757-4263-4)Exhibitions: 18.02.-21.05.2017,
Moderna Museet, Stockholm16.06.-22.10.2017, Louisiana Museum of
Modern Art, Humblebaek21.09.2018-20.01.2019, Palazzo Strozzi,
Florence
Experience the interdisciplinary performance scene of the 1980s and
beyond through the eyes of one of its most compelling witnesses.
Jacki Apple's Performance / Media / Art / Culture traces
performance art, multimedia theater, audio arts, and dance in the
United States from 1983 to the present. Showcasing thirty-five
years of Apple's critical essays and reviews, the collection
explores the rise and diversification of intermedia performance;
how new technologies (or rehashed old technologies) influence
American culture and contemporary life; the interdependence of pop
and performance culture; and the politics of art and the
performance of politics. Apple writes with a journalist's attention
to the immediacy of account and a historian's attention to
structural aesthetic and personal networks, resulting in a volume
brimming with big ideas but grounded in concentrated reviews of
individual performances. Many of the pieces featured in this
collection originally appeared in small press journals and
magazines that have now gone out of print. Preserved and
republished here for current and future readers, they offer a rich
portrait of performance at the end of the millennium.
Plastics have now been our most used materials for over fifty
years. This book adopts a new approach, exploring plastics'
contribution from two perspectives: as a medium for making and
their value in societal use. The first approach examines the
multivalent nature of plastics materiality and their impact on
creativity through the work of artists, designers and
manufacturers. The second perspective explores attitudes to
plastics and the different value systems applied to them through
current research undertaken by design, materials and socio-cultural
historians. The book addresses the environmental impact of plastics
and elucidates the ways in which they can and must be part of the
solution. The individual viewpoints are provocative and
controversial but together they present a balanced and scholarly
un-picking of the debate that surrounds this ubiquitous group of
materials. The book is essential reading for a wide academic
readership interested in the Arts and Humanities, especially Design
and Design History; Anthropology; and Cultural, Material and Social
Histories.
'A mellow, gentle read with a lot of words of wisdom' Independent
Let Dawn French guide you through the year with her witty and wise
seasonal insights. __________ Me You: Not A Diary is a pocket diary
without the diary part. Or the pocket. It includes everything you
loved about the original but without the calendar pages. To keep a
working diary alongside Dawn, we recommend the hardback edition of
Me You: A Diary. Me You is a place for me and you to reflect on the
patterns and changes of the year. It's full of my thoughts about
the seasons, the months and what matters. It's your guide to
reflecting on the year you've just had - or the one still to come.
Dive in, the paper's lovely . . . _________ 'A witty outlook on
life. This will have you laughing about your year' Prima 'It's
beautiful, like Dawn, and stuffed full of goodies' Jo Brand
This book offers an examination of the political dimensions of a
number of Jean-Luc Godard's films from the 1960s to the present.
The author seeks to dispel the myth that Godard's work abandoned
political questions after the 1970s and was limited to merely
formal ones. The book includes a discussion of militant filmmaking
and Godard's little-known films from the Dziga Vertov Group period,
which were made in collaboration with Jean-Pierre Gorin. The
chapters present a thorough account of Godard's investigations on
the issue of aesthetic-political representation, including his
controversial juxtaposition of the Shoah and the Nakba. Emmelhainz
argues that the French director's oeuvre highlights contradictions
between aesthetics and politics in a quest for a dialectical image.
By positing all of Godard's work as experiments in dialectical
materialist filmmaking, from Le Petit soldat (1963) to Adieu au
langage (2014), the author brings attention to Godard's ongoing
inquiry on the role filmmakers can have in progressive political
engagement.
Cheech Marin came of age at an interesting time in America and
became a self-made counterculture legend with his other half, Tommy
Chong. This long-awaited memoir delves into how Cheech dodged the
draft, formed one of the most successful comedy duos of all time,
became the face of the recreational drug movement with the film Up
in Smoke, forged a successful solo career with roles in The Lion
King and, more recently, Jane the Virgin, and became the owner of
the most renowned collection of Chicano art in the world. Written
in Cheech's uniquely hilarious voice, this memoir will take you to
new highs.
For all the Superwoman fans out there, this is the ultimate
unofficial guide to Lilly Singh and Unicorn Island! Jam-packed with
everything you need to be a part of Team Super, this book is filled
with Lilly's top tips on dating, Superwoman motivation, YouTube,
restyling your bedroom and getting Lilly's unique look with her
hair and beauty tutorials. From her early life in Toronto to her
world tour and life in LA, get to know Lilly's friends and collabs,
her superheroes and her super rants like never before. From puzzles
and challenges to Lilly's favourite catchphrases and her unicorn
inspo for finding your happy place, this book is a must-have fan
book for Superwomen everywhere!
We are witnessing a revolution in storytelling. Publications all
over the world are increasingly using immersive
storytelling-virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed
reality-to tell compelling stories. The aim of this book is to
distill the lessons learned thus far into a useful guide for
reporters, filmmakers and writers interested in telling stories in
this emerging medium. Examining ground-breaking work across
industries, this text explains, in practical terms, how
storytellers can create their own powerful immersive experiences as
new media and platforms emerge.
On the eve of Passover, April 19, 1943, Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto
staged a now legendary revolt against their Nazi oppressors. Since
that day, the deprivation and despair of life in the ghetto and the
dramatic uprising of its inhabitants have captured the American
cultural imagination. The Warsaw Ghetto in American Art and Culture
looks at how this place and its story have been remembered in fine
art, film, television, radio, theater, fiction, poetry, and comics.
Samantha Baskind explores seventy years' worth of artistic
representations of the ghetto and revolt to understand why they
became and remain touchstones in the American mind. Her study
includes iconic works such as Leon Uris's best-selling novel Mila
18, Roman Polanski's Academy Award-winning film The Pianist, and
Rod Serling's teleplay In the Presence of Mine Enemies, as well as
accounts in the American Jewish Yearbook and the New York Times,
the art of Samuel Bak and Arthur Szyk, and the poetry of Yala
Korwin and Charles Reznikoff. In probing these works, Baskind
pursues key questions of Jewish identity: What links artistic
representations of the ghetto to the Jewish diaspora? How is art
politicized or depoliticized? Why have Americans made such a strong
cultural claim on the uprising? Vibrantly illustrated and vividly
told, The Warsaw Ghetto in American Art and Culture shows the
importance of the ghetto as a site of memory and creative struggle
and reveals how this seminal event and locale served as a staging
ground for the forging of Jewish American identity.
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A nameless narrator and his friend Alberto move through a
constantly morphing continuum of dream-like situations while
discussing philosophy, literature, and war. The impossible question
of an enormous student in a lecture hall at an English university
sets off a series of alternate paths that open before them like a
fan. In taverns, boats, and plazas, the two protagonists discuss
John Donne, Lawrence of Arabia, and Lenin with English students, a
group of young and old women, and eight hundred drinkers, all the
while being dropped from one strange place into the next. A
remarkable work of refined surreal comedy.
When the Portuguese seafarer Afonso de Albuquerque conquered the
bustling port of Malacca in 1511, he effectively gained control of
the entire South China Sea spice trade. Although their dominance
lasted only 130 years, the Portuguese legacy lies at the heart of a
burgeoning tourist attraction on the outskirts of the city, in
which performers who believe they are the descendants of
swashbuckling Portuguese conquerors encapsulate their "history" in
a cultural stage show.
Using historical and ethnographic data, Margaret Sarkissian reveals
that this music and dance draws on an eclectic array of influences
that span the Portuguese diaspora (one song conjures up images of
Lucille Ball impersonating Carmen Miranda on "I Love Lucy").
Ironically, she shows, what began as a literate tradition in the
1950s has now become an oral one so deeply rooted in Settlement
life that the younger generation, like the tourists, now see it as
an unbroken heritage stretching back almost 500 years. A
fascinating case of "orientalism in reverse," "D'Albuquerque's
Children" illuminates the creative ways in which one community has
adapted to life in a postcolonial world.
This book examines the main issues and concepts relating to
heritage, screen and literary tourism (HSLT) and provides a
comprehensive understanding and evaluation of these three forms of
tourism in the context of global tourism development. It analyses
the demand and supply of HSLT within the frameworks provided by
service-dominant logic and value creation to enable a critical
perspective on how HSLT tourist experiences are created, produced
and shaped. The volume explores the challenges which relate to the
role of the consumer in the co-creation of the tourist experience,
and the implications this has for the development, marketing,
interpretation, consumption, planning and management of HSLT. It
will appeal to researchers and students of heritage tourism, film
and literary tourism, media-driven tourism, tourism planning and
destination development and management.
This Memoir covers Judge Tebbutt’s career as a radio and television
commentator, advocate, judge, judge president of Botswana,
businessman (managing director of Syfrets), chairman of the UCT
Convocation, charity fund-raiser and public figure. Judge Tebbutt
was interviewed on his career by Prof Michael Bruton at Nicolas
Ellenbogen’s Orange Theatre recently in front of an appreciative
audience who showed interest in the forthcoming Memoir.
Nina G bills herself as "The San Francisco Bay Area's Only Female
Stuttering Comedian." On stage, she encounters the occasional
heckler, but off stage she is often confronted with people's
comments toward her stuttering; listeners completing her sentences,
inquiring, "Did you forget your name?" and giving unwanted advice
like "slow down and breathe" are common. (As if she never thought
about slowing down and breathing in her over thirty years of
stuttering!) When Nina started comedy nearly ten years ago, she was
the only woman in the world of stand-up who stuttered--not a
surprise, since men outnumber women four to one amongst those who
stutter and comedy is a male-dominated profession. Nina's brand of
comedy reflects the experience of many people with disabilities in
that the problem with disability isn't in the person with it but in
a society that isn't always accessible or inclusive.
The most comprehensive view of the evolution of dancing in India is
one that is derived from Sanskrit textual sources. These texts are
the basic material that students of the dance in India must examine
in order to uncover its past. Since the rebirth of informed
interest in dancing in early twentieth century, its antiquity has
been acknowledged but precisely what the art was in antiquity
remains unclear. Discovering the oldest forms of dancing in India
requires, as do other historical quests, a reconstruction of the
past and, again as in other historical investigations, the primary
sources of knowledge are records from the past. In this case the
records are treatises and manuals in Sanskrit that discuss and
describe dancing. These are the sources that the present work sets
out to mine. These texts taken collectively are more than records
of a particular state of the art. They testify to the growth of the
theory and practice of the art and thus establish it as an evolving
rather than a fixed art form that changed as much in response to
its own expanding aesthetic boundaries as to parallel or
complementary forms of dance, drama and music that impinged upon it
as India's social and political situation changed. When we place
the Sanskrit treatises in chronological sequence it becomes clear
that the understanding of the art has changed through time, in its
infancy as well as in maturer periods.
This book explores representations of race and ethnicity in
contemporary cinema and the ways in which these depictions all too
often promulgate an important racial ideology: the myth of
colorblindness. Colorblindness is a discursive framework employed
by mainstream, neoliberal media to celebrate a multicultural
society while simultaneously disregarding its systemic and
institutionalized racism. This collection is unique in its
examination of such films as Ex Machina, The Lone Ranger, The Blind
Side, Zootopia, The Fast and the Furious franchise, and Dope, which
celebrate the myth of colorblindness, yet perpetuate and entrench
the racism and racial inequities that persist in contemporary
society. While the #OscarsSoWhite movement has been essential to
bringing about structural changes to media industries and offers
the opportunity for a wide diversity of voices to alter and
transform the dominant, colorblind narratives continue to
proliferate. As this book demonstrates, Hollywood still has a long
way to go.
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