Staging Feminisms

Author : Anita Singh
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000411706

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This book questions how feminist beliefs are enacted within an artistic context. It critically examines the intersection of violence, gender, performance and power through contemporary interventionist performances. The volume explores a host of key themes like feminism and folk epic, community theatre, performance as radical cultural intervention, volatile bodies and celebratory protests. Through analysing performances of theatre stalwarts like Usha Ganguly, Maya Krishna Rao, Sanjoy Ganguly, Shilpi Marwaha and Teejan Bai, the volume discusses the complexities and contradictions of a feminist reading of contemporary performances. A major intervention in the field of feminism and performance, this book will be useful for scholars and researchers of gender studies, performance studies, theatre studies, women’s studies, cultural studies, sociology of gender and literature.

Author : E. Aston,S. Case
Publisher : Springer
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2007-10-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780230287693

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Staging International Feminisms by E. Aston,S. Case Pdf

This is a landmark anthology of international feminist theatre research. A three-part structure orientates readers through Cartographies of feminist critical navigations of the global arena; the staging of feminist Interventions in a range of international contexts; and Manifestos for today's feminist practitioners, activists and academics.

Author : Lynette Goddard
Publisher : Springer
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2007-04-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780230801448

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Staging Black Feminisms by Lynette Goddard Pdf

Staging Black Feminisms explores the development and principles of black British women's plays and performance since the late Twentieth century. Using contemporary performance theory to explore key themes, it offers close textual readings and production analysis of a range of plays, performance poetry and live art works by practitioners.

Author : Sarah French
Publisher : Springer
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137465436

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Staging Queer Feminisms by Sarah French Pdf

This book examines sexuality, gender and race in Australia’s vibrant independent theatre and performance culture. It analyses selected feminist and queer performances that interrogate the cultural construction of sexuality and gender, challenge the normative trends of mainstream Australian society and culture and open up spaces for alternative representations of gender identity and sexual expression. Offering the first full-length study on sexuality and gender in Australian theatre since 2005, this book reveals a resurgence of feminist themes in independent performance and explores the intersection of feminist and queer politics. Ranging across drag, burlesque, cabaret, theatre and performance art, the book provides an accessible and engaging account of some of the most innovative, entertaining and politically subversive Australian theatrical works from the past decade.

Author : Geraldine Harris
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0719052637

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Staging Femininities by Geraldine Harris Pdf

The most complete study of Blier's work to date, Harris traces the director's career from the early 1960s until the present. Outlines the forms, themes and style which dominate in Blier's work, and challenges the many labels that have been used to describe both the corpus of films and the man himself. Provides an original and controversial discussion of Blier's alleged 'misogyny', and invites the reader to understand the scatological and corporeal aspects of Blier's filmmaking in terms of long-established traditions of popular dramatic culture. Brings to light the comic mechanisms underpinning Blier's films and identifies strategies which navigate through one of the most entertaining and disconcerting bodies of work of recent years. The first book on Blier published in English.

Author : C. Beach
Publisher : Springer
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2005-06-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781403978745

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Staging Politics and Gender by C. Beach Pdf

In Staging Politics and Gender , Cecilia Beach examines the political and feminist plays of French playwrights who have largely been overlooked until now. Beach highlights the importance of theatrical endeavors which women perceived as a powerful way to promote political opinions. The author analyzes the work of Louise Michel, Nelly Roussel, Marie Leneru, Vera Starkoff, and Madeline Pelletier and discusses anarchist theatre and forms of social protest theatre at the turn of the century.

Author : Lynette Goddard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Black theater
ISBN : OCLC:519532140

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Staging Black Feminisms by Lynette Goddard Pdf

Author : Sue-Ellen Case
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1990-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 0801839696

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Performing Feminisms by Sue-Ellen Case Pdf

A valuable, provoking, important addition to any theatre scholar or practitioner's library, especially since feminist theory is a relative newcomer to the world of theatre.

Author : Emily A. Rollie
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 48,6 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 : Charlotte Canning
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2005-06-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134859641

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Feminist Theatres in the USA by Charlotte Canning Pdf

Feminist Theaters in the USA is a fresh, informative portrait of a key era in feminist and theater history It is vital reading for feminist students, theater historians and theater practitioners. Their continued movement forward will be challenged and enriched by this timely look back at the trials and accomplishments of their predecessors. Canning interviews over thirty women who took part in the dynamic feminist theater of the 1970s and 1980s. They provide first-hand accounts of the excitement, struggles and innovations which formed their experience. From this foundation Cannning constructs a compelling combination of historical survey, critique and celebration which explores: * The history of the groups and their formation * The politics which shaped their work * Their methods and creative processes * The productions they brought to the stage * The reception from critics and audiences

Author : Elaine Aston
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030405892

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Restaging Feminisms by Elaine Aston Pdf

Restaging Feminisms offers a re-encounter with the tripartite modelling of liberal, radical, and socialist feminisms foundational to establishing feminist approaches to theatre. This lucid account of past-present connections to the staging of feminism assesses the legacies and renewals of all three feminist dynamics as they intersect with austerity Britain, the Weinstein watershed, and the #MeToo movement. Feminist politics, concepts, and the role of affect in the making of political attachments inform an approach that values understanding feminism’s past as critical to reanimating and restaging socially progressive, feminist futures. The volume includes case studies of productions staged between 2016 and 2019: Caryl Churchill’s Escaped Alone; David Greig’s version of The Suppliant Women; Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s Emilia; Nina Raine’s Consent; Townsend Theatre’s We Are The Lions Mr Manager; and Laura Wade’s Home, I’m Darling. From an author with a pioneering and thirty-year-long commitment to the study of feminism and British theatre, Restaging Feminisms is for an intergenerational feminist-theatre readership: for those who are discovering relations between feminism and theatre for the first time and those re-encountering the feminist dynamics and their renewed resonance on the contemporary British stage.

Author : Jen Harvie,Dan Rebellato
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-29
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781108386296

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The Cambridge Companion to British Theatre since 1945 by Jen Harvie,Dan Rebellato Pdf

British theatre underwent a vast transformation and expansion in the decades after World War II. This Companion explores the historical, political, and social contexts and conditions that not only allowed it to expand but, crucially, shaped it. Resisting a critical tendency to focus on plays alone, the collection expands understanding of British theatre by illuminating contexts such as funding, unionisation, devolution, immigration, and changes to legislation. Divided into four parts, it guides readers through changing attitudes to theatre-making (acting, directing, writing), theatre sectors (West End, subsidised, Fringe), theatre communities (audiences, Black theatre, queer theatre), and theatre's relationship to the state (government, infrastructure, nationhood). Supplemented by a valuable Chronology and Guide to Further Reading, it presents up-to-date approaches informed by critical race theory, queer studies, audience studies, and archival research to demonstrate important new ways of conceptualising post-war British theatre's history, practices and potential futures.

Author : Nancy Taylor Porter
Publisher : Springer
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783319570068

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Violent Women in Contemporary Theatres by Nancy Taylor Porter Pdf

This book brings together the fields of theatre, gender studies, and psychology/sociology in order to explore the relationships between what happens when women engage in violence, how the events and their reception intercept with cultural understandings of gender, how plays thoughtfully depict this topic, and how their productions impact audiences. Truthful portrayals force consideration of both the startling reality of women's violence — not how it's been sensationalized or demonized or sexualized, but how it is — and what parameters, what possibilities, should exist for its enactment in life and live theatre. These women appear in a wide array of contexts: they are mothers, daughters, lovers, streetfighters, boxers, soldiers, and dominatrixes. Who they are and why they choose to use violence varies dramatically. They stage resistance and challenge normative expectations for women. This fascinating and balanced study will appeal to anyone interested in gender/feminism issues and theatre.

Author : Sue-Ellen Case,Bryan Reynolds
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008-02-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350316515

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Feminism and Theatre by Sue-Ellen Case,Bryan Reynolds Pdf

This classic study is both an introduction to, and an overview of, the relationship between feminism and theatre. The reissued edition features a new Foreword by Elaine Aston who examines the context in which Case's book was written, the influence it has had, subsequent developments in the field and the continued importance of the work.

Author : Elaine Aston
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134882250

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An Introduction to Feminism and Theatre by Elaine Aston Pdf

At last an accessible and intelligent introduction to the energising and challenging relationship between feminism and theatre. In this clear and enlightening book, Aston discusses wide-ranging theoretical topics and provides case studies including: * Feminism and theatre history * `M/Othering the self': French feminist theory and theatre * Black women: shaping feminist theatre * Performing gender: a materialist practice * Colonial landscapes Feminist thought is changing the way theatre is taught and practised. An Introduction to Feminism and Theatre is compulsory reading for anyone who requires a precise, insightful and up-to-date guide to this dynamic field of study.