Theatre And Feminism

Author : Sue-Ellen Case
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136735208
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feminism and Theatre written by Sue-Ellen Case and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-03 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic study is both an introduction to, and an overview of, the relationship between feminism and theatre.

Author : Elaine Aston
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134882246
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Feminism and Theatre written by Elaine Aston and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Susan A. Glenn
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674037669
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Female Spectacle written by Susan A. Glenn and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the French actress Sarah Bernhardt made her first American tour in 1880, the term feminism had not yet entered our national vocabulary. But over the course of the next half-century, a rising generation of daring actresses and comics brought a new kind of woman to center stage. Exploring and exploiting modern fantasies and fears about female roles and gender identity, these performers eschewed theatrical convention and traditional notions of womanly modesty. They created powerful images of themselves as ambitious, independent, and sexually expressive New Women. Female Spectacle reveals the theater to have been a powerful new source of cultural authority and visibility for women. Ironically, theater also provided an arena in which producers and audiences projected the uncertainties and hostilities that accompanied changing gender relations. From Bernhardt's modern methods of self-promotion to Emma Goldman's political theatrics, from the female mimics and Salome dancers to the upwardly striving chorus girl, Glenn shows us how and why theater mattered to women and argues for its pivotal role in the emergence of modern feminism.

Author : Kim Solga
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350316237
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theatre and Feminism written by Kim Solga and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-02 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theatre & Feminism tells the story of the movement known as feminist performance theory. It explores key debates from its 40-year history, engages with the work of groundbreaking thinkers including Elin Diamond, Jill Dolan, Peggy Phelan and Elaine Aston, and includes case studies of recent performances by established and emerging feminist artists.

Author : Niki Tulk
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000580644
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Performing the Wound written by Niki Tulk and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-05-15 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a matrixial, feminist-centered analysis of trauma and performance, through examining the work of three artists: Ann Hamilton, Renée Green, and Cecilia Vicuña. Each artist engages in a multi-media, or “combination” performance practice; this includes the use of site, embodied performance, material elements, film, and writing. Each case study involves traumatic content, including the legacy of slavery, child sexual abuse and environmental degradation; each artist constructs an aesthetic milieu that invites rather than immerses—this allows an audience to have agency, as well as multiple pathways into their engagement with the art. The author Niki Tulk suggests that these works facilitate an audience-performance relationship based on the concept of ethical witnessing/wit(h)nessing, in which viewers are not positioned as voyeurs, nor made to risk re-traumatization by being forced to view traumatic events re-played on stage. This approach also allows agency to the art itself, in that an ethical space is created where the art is not objectified or looked at—but joined with. Foundational to this investigation are the writings of Bracha L. Ettinger, Jill Bennett and Diana Taylor—particularly Ettinger’s concepts of the matrixial, carriance and border-linking. These artists and scholars present a capacity to expand and articulate answers to questions regarding how to make performance that remains compelling and truthful to the trauma experience, but not re-traumatizing. This study will be of great interest to students and scholars of performance studies, art history, visual arts, feminist studies, theatre, film, performance art, postcolonialism, rhetoric and writing.

Author : Sue-Ellen Case
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801839696
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Performing Feminisms written by Sue-Ellen Case and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1990-02 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Lisa M. Anderson
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252032284
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Feminism in Contemporary Drama written by Lisa M. Anderson and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In tracing black feminism in contemporary drama by black women playwrights, Lisa M. Anderson reviews the history of black feminism through analysis of plays by Pearl Cleage, Glenda Dickerson, Breena Clarke, Kia Corthron, Suzan-Lori Parks, Sharon Bridgforth, and Shirlene Holmes.Black Feminism in Contemporary Dramarepresents a cross section of women who have diverse writing and performance styles and generational differences that highlight the artistic and political breadth of black feminist theater. Anderson closely investigates each play's construction and the context of its production, including how the play critiques, shifts, or alters dominant culture stereotypes; how it positions goals of the "community"; and how it engages with the concept of art's function. She not only discusses what shapes the black feminism of these writers but also points out how the meaning of the term black feminism shifts among them.

Author : Elaine Aston
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134882254
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Feminism and Theatre written by Elaine Aston and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Charlotte Canning
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134859643
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feminist Theatres in the USA written by Charlotte Canning and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-06-28 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Lizbeth Goodman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134906951
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Feminist Theatres written by Lizbeth Goodman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary Feminist Theatres is a major evaluation of the forms feminism has taken in the theatre since 1968. Lizbeth Goodman provides a provocative and interdisciplinary study of the development of feminist theatres in Britain. She examines the treatment of key issues such as gender, race, sexuality, language and power in performance. Based on original research and fresh data, Contemporary Feminst Theatres is a fully comprehensive and admirably clear analysis of a flourishing field of practice and inquiry.