Performance in a Time of Terror

Critical Mimesis and the Age of Uncertainty

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Hughes, Jenny

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224 Seiten

Englisch

Manchester University Presserschienen am30.11.2011

This book explores the ways in which performance has given shape and form to wars on terror past and present, focusing on examples of performed violence from Northern Ireland and Iraq. It also investigates how theatre-makers and performance activists have resisited violence in times of terror.a.mehr

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KlappentextThis book explores the ways in which performance has given shape and form to wars on terror past and present, focusing on examples of performed violence from Northern Ireland and Iraq. It also investigates how theatre-makers and performance activists have resisited violence in times of terror.a.

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ISBN/GTIN978-0-7190-8529-1

ProduktartBuch

EinbandartGebunden

FormatUngenäht / geklebt

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Manchester University Press

Erscheinungsjahr2011

Erscheinungsdatum30.11.2011

Seiten224 Seiten

SpracheEnglisch

MasseBreite 140 mm, Höhe 218 mm, Dicke 20 mm

Gewicht408 g

Artikel-Nr.13176195

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GenreTV/Film/Musik/Theater

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ContentsAcknowledgementsIllustrationsPrologue: A race across the desert 1 Searching for a politics of performance in an age of uncertainty 2 A beheading in Iraq: Medusa, the mirror and a performance of exception3 Counterinsurgency performance in Northern Ireland: street-crowd-balcony-scenes and the ob-scene4 A crisis of voice: democratic performance on the London stage 5 Camping up and camping out as antiwar protest performance6 Performance, counterterrorism and community: cops, neighbours, lovers and double agents Epilogue: Critical mimesis, refuse and wasteReferencesmehr