Neoliberalism and global theatres
Subtitle: performance permutations
By: edited by Lara D. Nielsen and Patricia Ybarra
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780230278318
Subjects: Theater and society; Political aspects; Theater
Description: "How do theatre and performance transmit and dispute ideologies of neoliberalism? The essays in this anthology examine the mechanisms and rhetorics of contemporary multinational and transnational organizations, artists, and communities that produce theatre and performance for global audiences. Given the economic violence so clearly present in our contemporary moment throughout the globe, this volume provides crucial analysis of how we got here, looking at performances from the 18th century to the present. Case studies from Singapore, Vietnam, greater China, Peru, Mexico, Indonesia, Brazil, India, Nigeria, the US reveal how performance circulates, transmutes and challenges the disciplinary formations and assumptions of contemporary investment in market logics and notions of freedom. Collecting eighteen essays by cutting edge scholars, Neoliberalism and Global Theatres: Performance Permutations brings together diverse perspectives that challenge readers to grapple with the effects of globalized capital on theater, dance, film, visual art, televisual performance and music."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: heterotopic transgressions and interventions: the (il)liberal neoliberal / Lara D. Nielsen; title: Institutional strategies. Margaret Werry: Nintendo Museum: intercultural pedagogy, neoliberal citizenship, and a theatre without actors; title: Sebastian Calderón: Bentøn archaeologies of empire: colonial Hollywood and the neoliberal academy; title: Eng-Beng Lim: Neoliberalism, the arts, and the global university; title: David Savran: Branding the revolution: Hair redux; title: Modes of Transmission. Patrick Anderson: I feel for you; title: Karen Shimakawa: Staging a moving map in Byron Au Yong and Aaron Jafferis' Stuck elevator; title: Patricia Ybarra: Fighting for a future in a free trade world; title: Thomas F. Defrantz: Unchecked popularity: neoliberal circulations of black dance; title: Formal economies. Khai Thu Nguyen: Model dissent: L'u Quang v' and the melodramatic performance of renovation in post-war Vietnam; title: Michal Kobialka: Representational practices and real abstractions in early eighteenth-century London; title: Margaret M. Olsen: The gift of the New Orleans Second Line; title: Catherine Cole: Wole Soyinka's The beatification of area boy as neoliberal kaleidoscope; title: Sites of articulation. Jon D. Rossini: Teatro visión and the limits of Chicano politics in neoliberal space; title: Nitza Tenenblat: Repairing Teatro Oficina Perdiz; title: Jisha Menon: Palimpsestic city: nostalgia and adaptation in neoliberal Bangalore; title: Diyah Larasati: Desiring the stage: the interplay of mobility and resistance; title: Afterword. May Joseph: Aquatopia: Harmattan Theatre, neoliberal provisionality, and the future of water.