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Cultural Studies

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Ruins

Classical Theater and Broken Memory

By Odai Johnson
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

Theorizing the effects of memory, absence, and disappearance in classical theater—the aesthetics of ruins

Immersions in Cultural Difference

Tourism, War, Performance

By Natalie Alvarez
Subjects: Theater and Performance, American Studies, Cultural Studies
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

How immersive simulations—from a fictional border-crossing site to a mock terrorist training camp—attempt to foster understanding across cultures

Performing the Intercultural City

By Ric Knowles
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Cultural Studies, Race and Ethnicity
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

Explores how theater in Toronto, the world’s most multicultural city, vibrantly reflects its diversity and cultural makeup

After Live

Possibility, Potentiality, and the Future of Performance

By Daniel Sack
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

An exploration of how live events—theater, dance, and installation art—stage encounters between the present and a radically ambivalent future

Paul Robeson and the Cold War Performance Complex

Race, Madness, Activism

By Tony Perucci
Subjects: Theater and Performance, American Studies, African American Studies, Cultural Studies, History, American History
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

Two key performances by Paul Robeson shed light on the Cold War era

The Sarah Siddons Audio Files

Romanticism and the Lost Voice

By Judith Pascoe
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

Winner of the Barnard Hewitt Award and a Joe A. Callaway Award Honorable Mention

The President Electric

Ronald Reagan and the Politics of Performance

By Timothy Raphael
Subjects: Theater and Performance, American Studies, Cultural Studies, Media Studies
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

How Reagan's immersion in an electronic media culture of performance shaped his political career

Artaud and His Doubles

By Kimberly Jannarone
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, European Literature, Cultural Studies, Art
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

A radical re-thinking of one of the most canonized figures in theater history, theory, and practice

Illusive Utopia

Theater, Film, and Everyday Performance in North Korea

By Suk-Young Kim
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Asian Studies, Korea, Political Science, Cultural Studies
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

A rare glimpse into North Korean propaganda—in parades, posters, murals, theater, and films

The Stage Life of Props

By Andrew Sofer
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, 16th and 17th Century Literature
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

Fresh and provocative readings of familiar stage objects provide new ways of understanding theater, dramatic literature, and culture

Performing America

Cultural Nationalism in American Theater

Edited by Jeffrey D. Mason & J. Ellen Gainor
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Cultural Studies, History, American History, American Studies
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

How theatrical representations of the U.S. have shaped national identity

Avant-Garde Performance and the Limits of Criticism

Approaching the Living Theatre, Happenings/Fluxus, and the Black Arts Movement

By Mike Sell
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, African American Studies, Cultural Studies
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

Explores the dynamic interactions of performance, politics, and literary criticism in three U.S countercultures in the 1950s and 60s

Not the Other Avant-Garde

The Transnational Foundations of Avant-Garde Performance

Edited by James M. Harding & John Rouse
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Cultural Studies
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

A radical new conception of the avant-garde that looks beyond Europe

Looking Into the Abyss

Essays on Scenography

By Arnold Aronson
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Cultural Studies
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

Engaging essays by an internationally prominent historian and theorist of theater set design

The Haunted Stage

The Theatre as Memory Machine

By Marvin Carlson
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Cultural Studies
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

Uncovers the ways in which the spectator's memory informs theatrical reception

Land/Scape/Theater

Edited by Elinor Fuchs & Una Chaudhuri
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Cultural Studies
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

Essays by leading theater scholars and theorists exploring the "turn to landscape" in modern and contemporary theater

Agitated States

Performance in the American Theater of Cruelty

By Anthony James Kubiak
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

American history as theater, and theater as the heart of American life

Performing Democracy

International Perspectives on Urban Community-Based Performance

Edited by Susan Chandler Haedicke & Tobin Nellhaus
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

International perspectives on a form of activist, participatory theater with marginalized groups in cities around the world

Brian Friel in Conversation

Edited by Paul Delaney
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures, Cultural Studies, Media Studies, Cinema Studies
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

Reflections by the author of Dancing at Lughnasa on Irish writers, the theater, nationalism, Catholicism, and his childhood

Postmodern/Drama

Reading the Contemporary Stage

By Stephen Myers Watt
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

If such a thing as postmodern drama exists, how should we read it?

Sightlines

Race, Gender, and Nation in Contemporary Australian Theatre

By Helen Gilbert
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Gender Studies, Cultural Studies
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

The Australian stage explored for its complex negotiations of race, gender, and post-colonialism

Staging Resistance

Essays on Political Theater

Edited by Jeanne Colleran & Jenny S. Spencer
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

Fresh perspectives on political theater and its essential contribution to contemporary culture

Approaching the Millennium

Essays on Angels in America

Edited by Deborah R. Geis & Steven F. Kruger
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

Leading critics, scholars, and theater practictioners consider the most talked-about play of the 1990s

Staging Place

The Geography of Modern Drama

By Una Chaudhuri
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Cultural Studies
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

The first book-length study of the notion of place and its implications in modern drama

Toward a Theater of the Oppressed

The Dramaturgy of John Arden

By Javed Malick
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Cultural Studies
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

Assesses the dramaturgy and political significance of one of our most radical contemporary playwrights

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