Performance in a Time of Terror - Critical Mimesis and the Age of Uncertainty

Informationen zum Autor Jenny Hughes is Lecturer in Drama at the University of Manchester Klappentext This book explores the ways in which performance has given shape and form to wars on terror past and present, focusing on examples of performed violence from Northern Ireland and Iraq. It also investigates how theatre-makers and performance activists have resisited violence in times of terror.a. Zusammenfassung This book explores the ways in which performance has given shape and form to wars on terror past and present, focusing on examples of performed violence from Northern Ireland and Iraq. It also investigates how theatre-makers and performance activists have resisited violence in times of terror.a. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis ContentsAcknowledgementsIllustrationsPrologue: A race across the desert 1 Searching for a politics of performance in an age of uncertainty 2 A beheading in Iraq: Medusa, the mirror and a performance of exception3 Counterinsurgency performance in Northern Ireland: street-crowd-balcony-scenes and the ob-scene4 A crisis of voice: democratic performance on the London stage 5 Camping up and camping out as antiwar protest performance6 Performance, counterterrorism and community: cops, neighbours, lovers and double agents Epilogue: Critical mimesis, refuse and wasteReferences

Product details

• Authors: Jenny Hughes, Hughes Jenny
• Assisted by: Maria M. Delgado (Editor), Maggie B. Gale (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2011
• EAN: 9780719085307
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-8530-7
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Theatre: Theory-Practice-Perfo; Theatre: Theory - Practice - Performance; Theatre: Theory-Practice-Perfo; Theatre: Theory - Practice - P; Theatre: Theory – Practice – Performance
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Terrorism, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, 21st Century, Theatre Studies, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Terrorism, armed struggle, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period)