Matthew Goulish: 39 Microlectures: In Proximity of Performance (2000)
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39 Microlectures: In Proximity of Performance is a collection of miniature stories, parables, musings and thinkpieces on the nature of reading, writing, art, collaboration, performance, life, death, the universe and everything. It is a unique and moving document for our times, full of curiosity and wonder, thoughtfulness and pain.
Matthew Goulish, founder member of performance group Goat Island, meditates on these and other diverse themes, proving, along the way, that the boundaries between poetry and criticism, and between creativity and theory, are a lot less fixed than they may seem. The book is revelatory, solemn yet at times hilarious, and genuinely written to inspire – or perhaps provoke – creativity and thought.
Publisher Routledge, 2000
ISBN 0415213932, 9780415213936
214 pages
PDF (updated on 2012-9-24)
Comments (2)Lizbeth Goodman, Jane de Gay (eds.): The Routledge Reader in Politics and Performance (2000)
Filed under book | Tags: · avant-garde, dance, drama, performance, politics, theatre
“The Routledge Reader in Politics and Performance brings together for the first time a comprehensive collection of extracts from key writings on politics, ideology, and performance.
Taking an interdisciplinary approach to the subject, and including new writings from leading scholars, the book provides material on:
* post-coloniality and performance theory and practice
* critical theories and performance
* intercultural perspectives
* power, politics and the theatre
* sexuality in performance
* live arts and the media
* theatre games.”
Publisher Routledge, 2000
Performance Studies series
ISBN 0415174732, 9780415174732
322 pages
PDF (updated on 2016-12-23)
Comment (0)Mark Wollaeger: Modernism, Media, and Propaganda: British Narrative from 1900 to 1945 (2008)
Filed under book | Tags: · cinema, film, literature, media ecology, modernism, narrative, propaganda, theatre, united kingdom, war
Though often defined as having opposite aims, means, and effects, modernism and modern propaganda developed at the same time and influenced each other in surprising ways. The professional propagandist emerged as one kind of information specialist, the modernist writer as another. Britain was particularly important to this double history. By secretly hiring well-known writers and intellectuals to write for the government and by exploiting their control of new global information systems, the British in World War I invented a new template for the manipulation of information that remains with us to this day. Making a persuasive case for the importance of understanding modernism in the context of the history of modern propaganda, Modernism, Media, and Propaganda also helps explain the origins of today’s highly propagandized world.
Modernism, Media, and Propaganda integrates new archival research with fresh interpretations of British fiction and film to provide a comprehensive cultural history of the relationship between modernism and propaganda in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century. From works by Joseph Conrad to propaganda films by Alfred Hitchcock and Orson Welles, Mark Wollaeger traces the transition from literary to cinematic propaganda while offering compelling close readings of major fiction by Virginia Woolf, Ford Madox Ford, and James Joyce.
Publisher Princeton University Press, 2008
ISBN 0691138451, 9780691138459
Length 335 pages