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Staging Masculinity
Author | : Carla J. McDonough |
Publsiher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2006-07-05 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780786427369 |
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The men in plays such as Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman or Sam Shephard's True West are often presented as universal; little attention is given to the gender dynamics involved in the characters. This work looks at how contemporary playwrights, including Miller, Shepard, Eugene O'Neill, David Mamet, and August Wilson, stage masculinity in their works. It becomes apparent that male playwrights return often to the issues of troubled manhood, usually masked in other issues such as war, business or family. The plays indicate both the attractiveness of the model of traditional masculinity and the illusive nature of this image, which all too often fractures and fails the characters who pursue it. O'Neill's play The Hairy Ape and the character Yank receive much attention.
Staging Masculinity
Author | : Erik Gunderson |
Publsiher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2000-11-08 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 0472111396 |
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Examines ancient notions of what constitutes a "good man"
Staging Masculinity
Author | : Erik Gunderson |
Publsiher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2000-11-08 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9780472111398 |
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Examines ancient notions of what constitutes a "good man"
Staging Masculinities
Author | : Michael Mangan |
Publsiher | : Red Globe Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2003-01-18 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0333720199 |
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One man in his time plays many parts/His acts being seven ages', asserts Shakespeare's Jacques, in a speech which foreshadows what has become a commonplace of contemporary gender theory: that masculinity, far from being a secure, unproblematic gender identity, is a site of crisis and contradictions. Staging Masculinities engages with the complex and paradoxical history of masculinities by exploring the ways in which changing concepts of what it means 'to be a man' have been represented, celebrated, examined and critiqued on mainstream Western - and particularly English - stages. Mapping a history of masculinities onto a history of theatre, Michael Mangan analyses a wide range of plays and performances, from Henry V to Peter Pan, and from medieval liturgical drama to contemporary West-End hits. In the process Mangan offers new and gendered readings of several familiar plays, and traces an intricate relationship between theatrical performance and gender performance.
Staging Discomfort
Author | : Bretton White |
Publsiher | : University Press of Florida |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2020-05-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781683401810 |
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This visionary volume examines how queer bodies are theatrically represented on the Cuban stage in ways that challenge one of the state’s primary revolutionary tools, the categorization and homogenization of individuals. Bretton White critically analyzes contemporary performances that upset traditional understandings of performer and spectator, as well as what constitutes the ideal Cuban citizenry. Following the 1959 revolution, nonconformists were monitored and reported by local committees and punished or reformed by the government. Censorship was rampant, and Cuban art suffered as the state tried to control the national message. Through the lens of queer theory, White explores how the body has been central to the state’s fear-based marginalization of gay life and looks at the ways these theatrical performances defuse that fear. She highlights the revolutionary model of masculinity and the role it plays in excluding people based upon visible queer difference. White finds that, through experimental performances of sexuality, actors create connections with audiences to evoke shared feelings of discomfort, intimacy, shame, longing, frustration, and failure, which echo the prevalence of these feelings in other Cuban spaces. By performing queerness, these plays question the state’s narrative of heteronormativity and empower citizens to negotiate alternative understandings of Cuban identity.
Staging Governance
Author | : Daniel O'Quinn |
Publsiher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 2005-11-30 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0801879612 |
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At the same time, official speeches and proceedings on colonial practices, such as the public trials of Clive and Hastings, became theatrical events themselves."--Jacket.
Art Craft and Theology in Fourth Century Christian Authors
Author | : Morwenna Ludlow |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2020-09-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780192588654 |
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Ancient authors commonly compared writing with painting. The sculpting of the soul was also a common philosophical theme. Art, Craft, and Theology in Fourth-Century Christian Authors takes its starting-point from such figures to recover a sense of ancient authorship as craft. The ancient concept of craft (ars, techne) spans 'high' or 'fine' art and practical or applied arts. It unites the beautiful and the useful. It includes both skills or practices (like medicine and music) and productive arts like painting, sculpting and the composition of texts. By using craft as a guiding concept for understanding fourth Christian authorship, this book recovers a sense of them engaged in a shared practice which is both beautiful and theologically useful, which shapes souls but which is also engaged in the production of texts. It focuses on Greek writers, especially the Cappadocians (Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nazianzus, and Gregory of Nysa) and John Chrysostom, all of whom were trained in rhetoric. Through a detailed examination of their use of two particular literary techniques—ekphrasis and prosōpopoeia—it shows how they adapt and experiment with them, in order to make theological arguments and in order to evoke a response from their readership.
Masculinity and Nationhood 1830 1910
Author | : J. Hoegaerts |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 377 |
Release | : 2014-10-29 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781137392015 |
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A history of what it meant to be a man, and a citizen of an emerging nation throughout the nineteenth century. This book not only relates how Belgians were taught how to move and fight, but also how they spoke and sang to express masculinity and patriotism.