Neoliberalism and Global Theatres Performance Permutations [Paperback]

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.Introduction; L.D.Nielsen & P.Ybarra PART I: INSTITUTIONAL STRATEGIES Irreal Entries; L.Nielsen Nintendo Museum: Intercultural Pedagogy, Neoliberal Citizenship, and a Theatre without Actors; M.Werry Bentin Archaeologies of Empire: Colonial Hollywood and the Neoliberal Academy; S.Calderon Neoliberalism and the Global University; E.B.Lim Branding the Revolution: Hair Redux; D.Savran PART II: MODES OF TRANSMISSION I Feel For You; P.Anderson Staging a Moving Map in Byron Au Yong and Aaron Jafferis' Stuck Elevator ; K.Shimakawa Fighting for a Future in a Free Trade World; P.Ybarra Unchecked Popularity: Neoliberal Circulations of Black Dance; T.Defrantz PART III: FORMAL ECONOMIES Model Dissent: L?u Quang V? and the Melodramatic Performance of Renovation in Post-War Vietnam; K.T.Ngyuen Representational Practices and Real Abstractionsin Early Eighteenth-Century London; M.Kobialka The Gift of the New Orleans Second Line; M.Olsen Wole Soyinka's The Beatification of Area Boy as Neoliberal Kaleidoscope; C.Cole PART IV: SITES OF ARTICULATION Teatro Visi?n and the Limits of Chicano Politics in Neoliberal Space; J.Rossini Repairing Teatro Oficina Perdiz; N.Tenenblat Palimpsestic City: Nostalgia and Adaptation in Neoliberal Bangalore; J.Menon Desiring the Stage: The Interplay of Mobility and Resistance; D.Larasati The Future of Water: Environmental Theatre Experiences Urban Space; M.Joseph Index

There is much to recommend in this impressive book, and the many critical approaches it synthesises are impossible to summarise in a short review. - Louise Owen, Contemporary Theatre Review

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