Tragic Resistance - Feminist Agency in Performance

Informationen zum Autor Megan Shea teaches in the Tisch School of the Arts and is a Clinical Professor of Expository Writing at New York University. Klappentext This book analyzes playwrights, directors, and performers who shatter gender norms to gain agency within the patriarchal institutions restricting them. Zusammenfassung This book analyzes playwrights, directors, and performers who shatter gender norms to gain agency within the patriarchal institutions restricting them. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. A Little More Than Kin: Theories of Antigone 2. Antigones Resist 3. Venus : Scripting Resistance 4. Chiasmic Nots: Explicit Resistance in Performance Art 5. Margaret Cho and the Tragedy of Anna Nicole Smith

Product details

• Authors: Megan Shea
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.12.2024
• EAN: 9781032828824
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3282882-4
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, Theatre Studies, Gender studies, gender groups, Theatre;Feminist Performance;Gender studies