The Dubious Spectacle: Extremities of Theater, 1976-2000U of Minnesota Press, 1. jan. 2002 - 347 sider Spanning a quarter of a century, the essays in this book rehearse, in the movement of memory and cross-reflection, an extensive career in theater. The work of Herbert Blau--his directing, writing, and criticism--has been a determining force during this period as theater encounters theory. |
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Side ix
... politics, fashion, photography, and the other arts, as well as the more than residual mod- ernism in the postmodern condition. As there are other writings I might have included (some from almost a quarter century before), this is not ...
... politics, fashion, photography, and the other arts, as well as the more than residual mod- ernism in the postmodern condition. As there are other writings I might have included (some from almost a quarter century before), this is not ...
Side xiii
... politics but for having broken when still in high school the four - minute mile , and a former coach at Stanford who when he was with the San Francisco Forty - Niners made himself eligible for the Hall of Fame by winning three Super ...
... politics but for having broken when still in high school the four - minute mile , and a former coach at Stanford who when he was with the San Francisco Forty - Niners made himself eligible for the Hall of Fame by winning three Super ...
Side xiv
... political economy of music initiates an essay on new music and theater, in which I speak of collabo- rating with musicians who, with next to no money at all, were engaged in the “desperate enterprise of destroying music as a commodity ...
... political economy of music initiates an essay on new music and theater, in which I speak of collabo- rating with musicians who, with next to no money at all, were engaged in the “desperate enterprise of destroying music as a commodity ...
Side xvi
... political theater and its relation to what in the introspection of Method acting was the privilege of the personal ... politics of theater . These are questions to which in other books I have returned as to a catechism : first of all ...
... political theater and its relation to what in the introspection of Method acting was the privilege of the personal ... politics of theater . These are questions to which in other books I have returned as to a catechism : first of all ...
Side xvii
... politics , with transgressive cre- dentials too — they would probably wince at current notions of art as ( in the terms of a leveling discourse ) “ social praxis ” or “ cultural produc- tion . ” And I cannot imagine any of them ...
... politics , with transgressive cre- dentials too — they would probably wince at current notions of art as ( in the terms of a leveling discourse ) “ social praxis ” or “ cultural produc- tion . ” And I cannot imagine any of them ...
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2 The Impossible Takes a Little Time | 18 |
3 Spacing Out in the American Theater | 37 |
Rehearsing the Resistance | 53 |
5 A Dove in My Chimney | 62 |
An Analytic Scenario | 70 |
The Grail of the Voice | 118 |
Chills and Fever Mourning and the Vanities of the Sublime | 132 |
13 Readymade Desire | 199 |
From Tango Palace to Mud | 206 |
The Group Idea and Its Legacy | 215 |
New Music and Theater | 230 |
17 FlatOut Vision | 246 |
Sovereign Pleasure and the Baroque Subject in the Tragicomedies of John Fletcher | 265 |
Revising the Abyss | 281 |
The Insane Root | 307 |
9 The Dubious Spectacle of Collective Identity | 137 |
Subtext of a Syllabus for the Arts in America | 157 |
Educating the American Theater | 181 |
12 The Pipe Dreams of ONeill in the Age of Deconstruction | 189 |
Notes | 321 |
Previous Publications | 335 |
Index | 337 |
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