Captive Audience -

Captive Audience

Prison and Captivity in Contemporary Theatre

Thomas Fahy, Kimball King (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
204 Seiten
2003
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-96580-4 (ISBN)
47,35 inkl. MwSt
Beginning with an essay by Harold Pinter, this text examines social, gendered, ethnic and cultural problems of incarceration explored through contemporary theatre. The essays discuss a range of topics related to the intersection of theatre and prison including theatrical prison projects, Marat/Sade and themes of imprisonment in US Latino drama.
The first collection on this important topic, Captive Audience examines the social, gendered, ethnic, and cultural problems of incarceration as explored in contemporary theatre. Beginning with an essay by Harold Pinter, the original contributions discuss work including Harold Pinter's screenplays for The Handmaid's Tale and The Trial, Theatrical Prison Projects and Marat/Sade. Kimball King, Thomas Fahy, Rena Fraden, Tiffany Ana Lopez, Fiona Mills, Harold Pinter, Ann C. Hall, Christopher C. Hudgins, Pamela Cooper, Robert F. Gross, Claudia Barnett, Lois Gordon

Thomas Fahy is Lecturer in English at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. He resides in Shell Beach, California. Kimball King is Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He resides in Chapel Hill, NC.

Contents General Editor's Note Captive Audience: An Introduction Part I 1. The Confessional Voice: Medea's Brutal Imagination 2. Emotional Contraband: Prison as Metaphor and Meaning in U.S. Latina Drama 3. Seeing Ethnicity: The Impact of Race and Class on the Critical Reception of Miguel Piñero's Short Eyes Part II 4. On Prisons in the United States 5. Harold Pinter's Prison House: The Screenplay of Kafka's The Trial 6. Harold Pinter's The Handmaid's Tale : Freedom, Prison, and a Highjacked Script 7. A World of Bodies: Performing Flesh in Marat/Sade 8. The Disposal : William Inge's Abject Drama 9. In Dark Corners: Masculinity and Art in Tennessee Williams's Not about Nightingales 10. Physical Prisons: Naomi Wallace's Drama of Captivity 11. No Exit and Waiting for Godot : Performances in Contrast Contributors

Erscheint lt. Verlag 9.10.2003
Reihe/Serie Studies in Modern Drama
Zusatzinfo 10 Illustrations, color
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 540 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Theater / Ballett
Recht / Steuern Strafrecht Kriminologie
ISBN-10 0-415-96580-2 / 0415965802
ISBN-13 978-0-415-96580-4 / 9780415965804
Zustand Neuware
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