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Muscle Works
Men’s fitness as a performance—from nineteenth-century theatrical exhibitions to health and wellness practices today
Max Reinhardt
Max Reinhardt was one of the formative directors of modern theater. Starting as an actor, it soon became clear that he wanted more. His vision of a theater "that returns joy to the people" was vast and expansive: It included intimate theatrical arrangement as well as mass production in the circus arena. Reinhardt's aesthetics were not restricted to a single program but indulged in a playful eclecticism. Thus, his career as a director that lasted for almost 40 years comprises a broad variety of artists of various genres as well as many different styles.
At the same time, Reinhardt soon longed for an international range: guest performances throughout Europe and to the US soon made him into a global star – and even a brand. He represents a metropolitan culture that roots in the late nineteenth century but comes to an end when Fasicsm in Europe ended any...
Transoceanic Blackface
A sweeping history of racialized performance across the Anglophone imperial world from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century
Race and the Forms of Knowledge
Crafting a fluid yet critical new framework, explored via a series of case studies, including their own practice-as-research, Ben Spatz confronts hegemonic modes of white writing and white institutionality and examines alternative forms of knowledge.
Theater of Capital
Alisa Zhulina shows how canonical fin-de-siècle playwrights interrogated the meaning of capitalism, staging economic questions as moral and political concerns and challenging contemporary socioeconomic theories within the boundaries of bourgeois theater.
Restaging the Future
An examination of neoliberal ideology's ascendance in 1990s and 2000s British politics and society through its effect on state-supported performance practices.
Theatricality of the Closet
Michelle Liu Carriger examines fashion and clothing controversies of the nineteenth century, drawing on performance theory to reveal how the apparently superficial or frivolous deeply affects the creation of identity.
Feelin
Through interviews, close readings, and archival research, Bettina Judd draws on the fields of affect studies and Black studies to analyze the creative processes and contributions of Black women artists.
Black Theater, City Life
Black Theater, City Life examines how contemporary African American theater institutions reflect and shape the histories and cultural realities of their cities, with a focus on the arts ecologies in four American cities: Cleveland, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, and Atlanta.
Back Stages
Shannon Jackson explores a range of disciplinary, institutional, and political puzzles that impinge on the social and aesthetic practice of performance by bringing together twenty essential essays from across her career.
Muscle Works
Men’s fitness as a performance—from nineteenth-century theatrical exhibitions to health and wellness practices today
Max Reinhardt
Max Reinhardt was one of the formative directors of modern theater. Starting as an actor, it soon became clear that he wanted more. His vision of a theater "that returns joy to the people" was vast and expansive: It included intimate theatrical arrangement as well as mass production in the circus arena. Reinhardt's aesthetics were not restricted to a single program but indulged in a playful eclecticism. Thus, his career as a director that lasted for almost 40 years comprises a broad variety of artists of various genres as well as many different styles.
At the same time, Reinhardt soon longed for an international range: guest performances throughout Europe and to the US soon made him into a global star – and even a brand. He represents a metropolitan culture that roots in the late nineteenth century but comes to an end when Fasicsm in Europe ended any...
At the same time, Reinhardt soon longed for an international range: guest performances throughout Europe and to the US soon made him into a global star – and even a brand. He represents a metropolitan culture that roots in the late nineteenth century but comes to an end when Fasicsm in Europe ended any...
Transoceanic Blackface
A sweeping history of racialized performance across the Anglophone imperial world from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century
Race and the Forms of Knowledge
Crafting a fluid yet critical new framework, explored via a series of case studies, including their own practice-as-research, Ben Spatz confronts hegemonic modes of white writing and white institutionality and examines alternative forms of knowledge.
Theater of Capital
Alisa Zhulina shows how canonical fin-de-siècle playwrights interrogated the meaning of capitalism, staging economic questions as moral and political concerns and challenging contemporary socioeconomic theories within the boundaries of bourgeois theater.
Restaging the Future
An examination of neoliberal ideology's ascendance in 1990s and 2000s British politics and society through its effect on state-supported performance practices.
Theatricality of the Closet
Michelle Liu Carriger examines fashion and clothing controversies of the nineteenth century, drawing on performance theory to reveal how the apparently superficial or frivolous deeply affects the creation of identity.
Feelin
Through interviews, close readings, and archival research, Bettina Judd draws on the fields of affect studies and Black studies to analyze the creative processes and contributions of Black women artists.
Black Theater, City Life
Black Theater, City Life examines how contemporary African American theater institutions reflect and shape the histories and cultural realities of their cities, with a focus on the arts ecologies in four American cities: Cleveland, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, and Atlanta.
Back Stages
Shannon Jackson explores a range of disciplinary, institutional, and political puzzles that impinge on the social and aesthetic practice of performance by bringing together twenty essential essays from across her career.