Jean Genet : performance and politics
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Jean Genet : performance and politics
Palgrave Macmillan, 2006
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This is the first book to explore the broad political significance of Genet's performance practice by focusing on his radical experiments, polemical subjects and formal innovations in theatre, film and dance. Its new approach brings together the diverse aspects of Genet's work through essays by international scholars and interviews.
Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction
- C.Finburgh , C.Lavery & M.Shevtsova SETTING THE STAGE Genet in his 'Humour'
- M.Corvin From Theatricality to Performance Theory: The Screens
- D.Bradby The Theatre of Genet in Sociological Perspective
- M.Shevtsova Genet's The Screens as Media Allegory
- D. Fieni POLITICS AND PERFORMANCE Reading The Blacks Through the 1956 Preface: Politics and Betrayal C.Lavery 'Micro-Treatise on a Mini-Politics': Genet, Individualism and Collectivity
- C.Finburgh GENET AND EXPERIMENTAL PERFORMANCE Theatre in a Graveyard: Site-Based Performance and The Revolution of Everyday Life
- C.Lavery Dancing the Impossible: Kazuo Ohno, Lindsay Kemp and Our Lady of the Flowers
- M.Hargreaves Jean, Ron, Franko and Me: Genet, Body Art and Abjection
- C.Lavery & P.Woodward KEY PRODUCTIONS The Blacks and Its Impact on African American Theatre in the United States
- J.Warrick Las Criadas , Genet and Spain
- M.M.Delgado GENET: CINEMA AND DANCE Corporeographies: The Dancing Body in 'adame Miroir and Un chant d'amour
- E.Stephens Genet and Cinema: Adaptations and Influence
- J.Giles PERFORMING GENET An Interview with Joseph Strick An Interview with Bill Rauch and Lynn Jeffries of Cornerstone Theatre Company An Interview with Jean-Baptiste Sastre An Interview with Terry Hands An Interview with Colin Chambers An Interview with Richard Schechner More Holes Than Blanket: Rehearsal Process and Political Process in Genet's Theatre
- R.Yarrow Index
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