World Stages, Local Audiences - Essays on Performance, Place and Politics

Informationen zum Autor Peter Dickinson teaches in the English Department at Simon Fraser University Klappentext This book argues that local performance events offer a way to read the world, and an opportunity to remake that world, helping to foster a global political consciousness. Surveying a wide array of theatre, dance, performance and visual art, as well as sporting contests, marriage ceremonies human rights protests, even acts of extreme weather. Zusammenfassung This book argues that local performance events offer a way to read the world! and an opportunity to remake that world! helping to foster a global political consciousness. Surveying a wide array of theatre! dance! performance and visual art! as well as sporting contests! marriage ceremonies human rights protests! even acts of extreme weather. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis List of figures Acknowledgements Introduction: Near and far 1 One world, two cities: Olympic showcases in Beijing and Vancouver 2 Love is a battlefield: the performance and politics of same-sex marriage in North America and beyond 3 Travels with Tony Kushner and David Beckham 4 Brothers' keepers, or, the performance of mourning: queer rituals of remembrance Coda 1 December 2007: changing direction/Lost Action References

Product details

• Authors: Peter Dickinson, Peter Dickinson Dickinson, DICKINSON PETER
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.05.2010
• EAN: 9780719081743
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-8174-3
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Theatre: Theory - Practice - Performance; Theatre: Theory-Practice-Perfo; Theatre: Theory - Practice - Performance
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies