"Staging Desire" gathers critical and biographical essays on
notable stage personalities who made their mark before 1969, when
the Stonewall riots accelerated the lesbian and gay rights movement
in the United States. How they staged their unconventional
sexualities greatly influenced the course of their personal and
professional lives, and thus the course of American theater
history. The book builds on an earlier collection--the
well-received "Passing Performances, " which focused on actors,
directors, producers, and agents--by examining playwrights,
lyricists, critics, and designers. Shaping theatrical
representations from offstage, these practitioners exploited the
special opportunities theater offered as a complex and many-layered
medium for expression of transgressive desire.
Essays cover the careers of major figures Clyde Fitch, Rachel
Crothers, Mercedes de Acosta, Djuna Barnes, Cole Porter, Lorenz
Hart, George Kelly, William Inge, James "Acorn" Oaks, Adam
"Vagabond" Badeau, Eric Bentley, Loie Fuller, Robert Edmond Jones,
and Jean Rosenthal. Grounded in research into the history of
sexuality, the book engages central problems of terminology and
evidence in analyzing sexual practices of the past and the modes of
articulation of sexuality in theater, conditioned by American
culture's peculiar anxieties about both.
Kim Marra is Associate Professor of Theatre Arts, University of
Iowa. Robert A. Schanke is Professor of Theatre, Central College,
Iowa. They edited "Passing Performances: Queer Readings of Leading
Players in American Theater History, " a previous volume in this
series.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
