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The long cultural moment that arose in the wake of 9/11 and the
conflict in the Middle East has fostered a global wave of
surveillance and counterinsurgency. Performance in a Militarized
Culture explores the ways in which we experience this new status
quo. Addressing the most commonplace of everyday interactions, from
mobile phone calls to traffic cameras, this edited collection
considers: How militarization appropriates and deploys performance
techniques How performing arts practices can confront
militarization The long and complex history of militarization How
the war on terror has transformed into a values system that
prioritizes the military The ways in which performance can be used
to secure and maintain power across social strata Performance in a
Militarized Culture draws on performances from North, Central, and
South America; Europe; the Middle East; and Asia to chronicle a
range of experience: from those who live under a daily threat of
terrorism, to others who live with a distant, imagined fear of such
danger.
Troubling Traditions takes up a 21st century, field-specific
conversation between scholars, educators, and artists from varying
generational, geographical, and identity positions that speak to
the wide array of debates around dramatic canons. Unlike Literature
and other fields in the humanities, Theatre and Performance Studies
has not yet fully grappled with the problems of its canon.
Troubling Traditions stages that conversation in relation to the
canon in the United States. It investigates the possibilities for
multiplying canons, methodologies for challenging canon formation,
and the role of adaptation and practice in rethinking the field's
relation to established texts. The conversations put forward by
this book on the canon interrogate the field's fundamental values,
and ask how to expand the voices, forms, and bodies that constitute
this discipline. This is a vital text for anyone considering the
role, construction, and impact of canons in the US and beyond.
Troubling Traditions takes up a 21st century, field-specific
conversation between scholars, educators, and artists from varying
generational, geographical, and identity positions that speak to
the wide array of debates around dramatic canons. Unlike Literature
and other fields in the humanities, Theatre and Performance Studies
has not yet fully grappled with the problems of its canon.
Troubling Traditions stages that conversation in relation to the
canon in the United States. It investigates the possibilities for
multiplying canons, methodologies for challenging canon formation,
and the role of adaptation and practice in rethinking the field's
relation to established texts. The conversations put forward by
this book on the canon interrogate the field's fundamental values,
and ask how to expand the voices, forms, and bodies that constitute
this discipline. This is a vital text for anyone considering the
role, construction, and impact of canons in the US and beyond.
This book examines performance in the context of the 2003 Iraq War
and subsequent conflicts with Daesh, or the so-called Islamic
State. Working within a theater and performance studies lens, it
analyzes adaptations of Greek tragedy, documentary theater,
political performances by the Bush administration, protest
performances, satiric news television programs, and
post-apocalyptic narratives in popular culture. By considering
performance across genre and media, War as Performance offers an
interdisciplinary approach to the study of culture, warfare, and
militarization, and argues that spectacular and banal aesthetics of
contemporary war positions performance as a practice struggling to
distance itself from appropriation by the military for violent
ends. Contemporary warfare has infiltrated our narratives to such
an extent that it holds performance hostage. As lines between the
military and performance weaken, this book analyzes how performance
responds to and potentially shapes war and conflict in the new
century.
This book examines performance in the context of the 2003 Iraq War
and subsequent conflicts with Daesh, or the so-called Islamic
State. Working within a theater and performance studies lens, it
analyzes adaptations of Greek tragedy, documentary theater,
political performances by the Bush administration, protest
performances, satiric news television programs, and
post-apocalyptic narratives in popular culture. By considering
performance across genre and media, War as Performance offers an
interdisciplinary approach to the study of culture, warfare, and
militarization, and argues that spectacular and banal aesthetics of
contemporary war positions performance as a practice struggling to
distance itself from appropriation by the military for violent
ends. Contemporary warfare has infiltrated our narratives to such
an extent that it holds performance hostage. As lines between the
military and performance weaken, this book analyzes how performance
responds to and potentially shapes war and conflict in the new
century.
The long cultural moment that arose in the wake of 9/11 and the
conflict in the Middle East has fostered a global wave of
surveillance and counterinsurgency. Performance in a Militarized
Culture explores the ways in which we experience this new status
quo. Addressing the most commonplace of everyday interactions, from
mobile phone calls to traffic cameras, this edited collection
considers: How militarization appropriates and deploys performance
techniques How performing arts practices can confront
militarization The long and complex history of militarization How
the war on terror has transformed into a values system that
prioritizes the military The ways in which performance can be used
to secure and maintain power across social strata Performance in a
Militarized Culture draws on performances from North, Central, and
South America; Europe; the Middle East; and Asia to chronicle a
range of experience: from those who live under a daily threat of
terrorism, to others who live with a distant, imagined fear of such
danger.
Finalist in the 2022 Lambda Literary Awards for the LGBTQ Anthology
category The Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays for the Stage is the
first play anthology to offer eight new plays by trans playwrights
featuring trans characters. This edited collection establishes a
canon of contemporary American trans theatre which represents a
variety of performance modes and genres. From groundbreaking new
work from across America's stages to unpublished work by new
voices, these plays address themes such as gender identity and
expression to racial and religious attitudes toward love and sex.
Edited by Lindsey Mantoan, Angela Farr Schiller and Leanna Keyes,
the plays selected explicitly call for trans characters as central
protagonists in order to promote opportunities for trans
performers, making this an original and necessary publication for
both practical use and academic study. Sagittarius Ponderosa by MJ
Kaufman The Betterment Society by Mashuq Mushtaq Deen how to clean
your room by j. chavez She He Me by Raphael Amahl Khouri The Devils
Between Us by Sharifa Yasmin Doctor Voynich and Her Children by
Leanna Keyes Firebird Tattoo by Ty Defoe Crooked Parts by Azure
Osborne-Lee
Finalist in the 2022 Lambda Literary Awards for the LGBTQ Anthology
category The Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays for the Stage is the
first play anthology to offer eight new plays by trans playwrights
featuring trans characters. This edited collection establishes a
canon of contemporary American trans theatre which represents a
variety of performance modes and genres. From groundbreaking new
work from across America's stages to unpublished work by new
voices, these plays address themes such as gender identity and
expression to racial and religious attitudes toward love and sex.
Edited by Lindsey Mantoan, Angela Farr Schiller and Leanna Keyes,
the plays selected explicitly call for trans characters as central
protagonists in order to promote opportunities for trans
performers, making this an original and necessary publication for
both practical use and academic study. Sagittarius Ponderosa by MJ
Kaufman The Betterment Society by Mashuq Mushtaq Deen how to clean
your room by j. chavez She He Me by Raphael Amahl Khouri The Devils
Between Us by Sharifa Yasmin Doctor Voynich and Her Children by
Leanna Keyes Firebird Tattoo by Ty Defoe Crooked Parts by Azure
Osborne-Lee
Game of Thrones has changed the landscape of television during an
era hailed as the Golden Age of TV. An adaptation of George R.R.
Martin's epic fantasy A Song of Fire and Ice, the HBO series has
taken on a life of its own with original plotlines that advance
past those of Martin's books. The death of protagonist Ned Stark at
the end of Season One launched a killing spree in television-major
characters now die on popular shows weekly. While many shows kill
off characters for pure shock value, death on Game of Thrones
produces seismic shifts in power dynamics-and resurrected bodies
that continue to fight. This collection of new essays explores how
power, death, gender, and performance intertwine in the series.
A peer-reviewed journal of theatre history and scholarship
published annually since 1981 by the Mid-America Theatre Conference
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