Milestones In Staging Contemporary Genders And Sexualities

Author : Emily A. Rollie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1003272851

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Milestones in Staging Contemporary Genders and Sexualities by Emily A. Rollie Pdf

"This introduction to the staging of genders and sexuality across world theatre sets out a broad view of the subject by featuring plays and performance artists that shifted the conversation in their cultural, social, and historical moments. Designed for weekly use in theatre studies, dramatic literature, or gender and performance studies courses, these ten milestones highlight women and writers of the global majority, supporting and amplifying voices that are key to the field and some that have typically been overlooked. From Paula Vogel, Split Britches, and Young Jean Lee to Werewere Liking, Mahesh Dattani, Yvette Nolan, and more, the chapters place artists' key works into conversation with one another, structurally offering an intersectional perspective on staging questions of genders and sexuality. Milestones are a range of accessible textbooks, breaking down the need-to-know moments in the social, cultural, political, and artistic development of foundational subject areas"--

Author : Emily A. Rollie
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781040020098

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Milestones in Staging Contemporary Genders and Sexualities by Emily A. Rollie Pdf

This introduction to the staging of genders and sexualities across world theatre sets out a broad view of the subject by featuring plays and performance artists that shifted the conversation in their cultural, social, and historical moments. Designed for weekly use in theatre studies, dramatic literature, or gender and performance studies courses, these ten milestones highlight women and writers of the global majority, supporting and amplifying voices that are key to the field and some that have typically been overlooked. From Paula Vogel, Split Britches, and Young Jean Lee to Werewere Liking, Mahesh Dattani, Yvette Nolan, and more, the chapters place artists’ key works into conversation with one another, structurally offering an intersectional perspective on staging genders and sexualities. Milestones are a range of accessible textbooks, breaking down the need-to-know moments in the social, cultural, political, and artistic development of foundational subject areas.

Author : Toyin Falola
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781040093818

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Milestones in African Literature by Toyin Falola Pdf

Milestones in African Literature offers an accessible guide to ten key moments in African literature. It traces literature in Africa through forms and genres, as well as social and political changes. Toyin Falola embraces the richness of African literature, and considers the oral tradition, pre-colonial literature, apartheid, print media and digital literature, postcolonialism, and migration literature. He explores the realities of African people by drawing from and highlighting peoples’ convictions, spirituality, and pasts. The book reveals African literature’s capacity to convey cultural, social, and political messages through storytelling, while depicting the social structures and cultural norms that shape these experiences through the examination of perspectives and literary works of African authors. Milestones in African Literature is the ideal resource for undergraduate and graduate students interested in African literatures. It will also be invaluable for teachers and researchers aiming to strengthen their knowledge.

Author : Mary Jo Lodge
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000896268

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Milestones in Musical Theatre by Mary Jo Lodge Pdf

Milestones in Musical Theatre tracks ten of the most significant moments in musical theatre history, from some of its earliest incarnations, especially those crafted by Black creators, to its rise as a global phenomenon. Designed for weekly use in musical theatre courses, these ten chosen snapshots chart the development of this unique art form and move through its history chronologically, tracking the earliest operettas through the mid-century Golden Age classics, as well as the creative explosion in directing talent, which reshaped the form and the movement toward inclusivity that has recast its creators. Each chapter explores how the musical and its history have been deeply influenced by a variety of factors, including race, gender, and nationality, and examines how each milestone represents a significant turning point for this beloved art form. Milestones are a range of accessible textbooks, breaking down the need-to-know moments in the social, cultural, political, and artistic development of foundational subject areas. This book is ideal for diverse and inclusive undergraduate musical theatre history courses.

Author : Josephine Lee
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000636376

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Milestones in Asian American Theatre by Josephine Lee Pdf

This introduction to Asian American theatre charts ten of the most pivotal moments in the history of the Asian diaspora in the USA and how those moments have been reflected in theatre. Designed for weekly use on Asian American theatre courses, ten chosen milestones move chronologically from the earliest contact between Japan and the West through the impact of the Vietnam War and the resurgent "yellow peril" hysteria of COVID-19. Each chapter emphasizes common questions of how racial identities and relationships are understood in everyday life as well as represented on the theatrical stage and in popular culture. Milestones are a range of accessible textbooks, breaking down the need-to-know moments in the social, cultural, political, and artistic development of foundational subject areas.

Author : Sean Metzger,Roberta Mock
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350123182

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The Methuen Drama Handbook of Gender and Theatre by Sean Metzger,Roberta Mock Pdf

This is a guide to contemporary debates and theatre practices at a time when gender paradigms are both in flux and at the centre of explosive political battlegrounds. The confluence of gender and theatre has long created intense debate about representation, identification, social conditioning, desire, embodiment, and lived experience. As this handbook demonstrates, from the conventions of early modern English, Chinese, Japanese and Hispanic theatres to the subversion of racialized binaries of masculinity and femininity in recent North American, African, Asian, Caribbean and European productions, the matter of gender has consistently taken centre stage. This handbook examines how critical discourses on gender intersect with key debates in the field of theatre studies, as a lens to illuminate the practices of gender and theatre as well as the societies they inform and represent across space and time. Of interest to scholars in the interrelated areas of feminist, gender and sexuality studies, theatre and performance studies, cultural studies, and globalization and diasporic studies, this book demonstrates how researchers are currently addressing theatre about gender issues and gendered theatre practices. While synthesizing and summarizing foundational and evolving debates from a contemporary perspective, this collection offers interpretations and analyses that do not simply look back at existing scholarship, but open up new possibilities and understandings. Featuring essential research tools, including a survey of keywords and an annotated play list, this is an indispensable scholarly handbook for anyone working in theatre and performance.

Author : S. Wagg
Publisher : Springer
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230320819

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Myths and Milestones in the History of Sport by S. Wagg Pdf

The conventional history of sport, as conveyed by television and the sports press, has thrown up a great many apparent turning points, but knowledge of these apparently defining moments is often slight. This book offers readable, in-depth studies of a series of these watersheds in sport history and of the circumstances in which they came about.

Author : Axel Englund
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780520974708

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Deviant Opera by Axel Englund Pdf

The first book to use subversive sexuality as a lens through which to provocatively view opera in the 21st century. Imagine Armida, Handel’s Saracen sorceress, performing her breakneck coloraturas in a black figure-hugging rubber dress, beating her insubordinate furies into submission with a cane, suspending a captive Rinaldo in chains from the ceiling of her dungeon. Mozart’s peasant girl Zerlina, meanwhile, is tying up and blindfolding her fiancé to seduce him out of his jealousy of Don Giovanni. And how about Wagner’s wizard, Klingsor, ensnaring his choir of flower maidens in elaborate Japanese rope bondage? Opera, it would appear, has developed a taste for sadomasochism. For decades now, radical stage directors have repeatedly dressed canonical operas—from Handel and Mozart to Wagner and Puccini, and beyond—in whips, chains, leather, and other regalia of SM and fetishism. Deviant Opera seeks to understand this phenomenon, approaching the contemporary visual code of perversion as a lens through which opera focuses and scrutinizes its own configurations of sex, gender, power, and violence. The emerging image is that of an art form that habitually plays with an eroticization of cruelty and humiliation, inviting its devotees to take sensual pleasure in the suffering of others. Ultimately, Deviant Opera argues that this species of opera fantasizes about breaking the boundaries of its own role-playing, and pushing its erotic power exchanges from the enacted to the actual.

Author : Marc Stein
Publisher : Gale Cengage
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015060633198

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Lgbt, Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History in America: Actors to gyms by Marc Stein Pdf

Online version of the 3-vol. work published by Gale providing a comprehensive survey of lesbian and gay history and culture in the United States.

Author : John Howard
Publisher : Universitat de València
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-13
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9788491349587

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Truths Up His Sleeve: The Times of Michael Cacoyannis by John Howard Pdf

This first critical biography of radio broadcaster, stage director, and auteur filmmaker Michael Cacoyannis examines his prolific body of work within the socio-political context of his times. Best known as a bold modernist for triple-Oscar-winner ‘Zorba the Greek’, Michael likewise was hailed as an astute classicist for his inventive interpretations of Euripides. Working across several continents and languages, he forwarded feminist, humanist, and pacifist agendas, as he further innovated crafty LGBT narratives of unprecedented artistry and complexity. Despite intense persecution during the Cold War red scare and lavender scare, his casts and crews of frugal cosmopolitans critiqued racism, militarism, sexism, homophobia, and transphobia. Avoiding censorship, job loss, and jail, Michael thereby laid foundations for the 1990s new queer cinema and set the stage for empowering dramas of socio-economic justice in the third millennium. Over his long life and productive career, Michael exposed and espoused the vital truths up his sleeve.

Author : Marc Föcking,Susanne A. Friede,Florian Mehltretter,Angela Oster
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-06
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783110783438

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A Companion to Anticlassicisms in the Cinquecento by Marc Föcking,Susanne A. Friede,Florian Mehltretter,Angela Oster Pdf

Author : Niall Richardson,Clarissa Smith,Angela Werndly
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781350306530

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Studying Sexualities by Niall Richardson,Clarissa Smith,Angela Werndly Pdf

Sexuality is an integral part of our lives, and our identities. But how do we study it? Written in a lively and accessible style, Studying Sexualities aims to introduce students to the critical study of sexuality, taking a look at the major theories, media representations, and cultural practices. After having carefully explained the key theoretical and empirical debates on the subject – outlining Foucauldian Constructionism, Psychoanalysis, and Queer Theory - the authors draw on their own original research to address timely topics related to gender, sexuality, and popular culture. Contemporary examples used within the book include discussions of sex shops, cybersex, and sex toys, the TV series Sex and the City, Will and Grace and The L Word, and the immensely popular Twilight books. Studying Sexualities is essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students on Cultural, Media, Film, or visual Studies, or Sociology and Sexuality courses, who are interested in researching the fascinating complexities of sexuality today. NIALL RICHARDSON is a lecturer at the University of Sussex, and CLARISSA SMITH and ANGELA WERNDLY are lecturers at the University of Sunderland, UK. This book is the culmination of their considerable teaching and writing experience within the field of sexualities. Their specific research interests include feminism and popular culture, queer theory, the body and consumption.

Author : Kerry H. Robinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780415609678

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Innocence, Knowledge, and the Construction of Childhood by Kerry H. Robinson Pdf

This book provides a critical examination of the discourses that underpin the regulation of children’s access to certain knowledge – understood as ‘difficult knowledge’ – and highlights the way this regulation contributes to the construction of childhood, to children’s vulnerability, to broader social relationships (including adult-child relations of power), and to the constitution of the ‘good’ future citizen in developed countries. Through this analysis, the author critically engages with the relationships between childhood, innocence, moral panic, censorship and notions of citizenship. She argues that the regulation of children’s access to particular knowledge largely stems from the social construction of childhood innocenceand the socio-cultural-political values that constitute and define childhood. This book explores how and why the strict regulation of children’s knowledge, often in the name of protectionor in the child’s best interest, can ironically, increase children’s prejudice around difference, increase their vulnerability to exploitation and abuse, impact on their health and well being, and undermine their competence as children, as well as their abilities to become competent adolescents and adults.

Author : Susan Stryker
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780786741366

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Transgender History by Susan Stryker Pdf

Covering American transgender history from the mid-twentieth century to today, Transgender History takes a chronological approach to the subject of transgender history, with each chapter covering major movements, writings, and events. Chapters cover the transsexual and transvestite communities in the years following World War II; trans radicalism and social change, which spanned from 1966 with the publication of The Transsexual Phenomenon, and lasted through the early 1970s; the mid-'70s to 1990-the era of identity politics and the changes witnessed in trans circles through these years; and the gender issues witnessed through the '90s and '00s. Transgender History includes informative sidebars highlighting quotes from major texts and speeches in transgender history and brief biographies of key players, plus excerpts from transgender memoirs and discussion of treatments of transgenderism in popular culture.

Author : Susan Glaspell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1916
Category : One-act plays
ISBN : UOM:39015008580576

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Trifles by Susan Glaspell Pdf