Neoliberalism and Global Theatres: Performance Permutations

✍ Scribed by Lara D. Nielsen, Patricia Ybarra (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 323
• Series: Studies in International Performance
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction: Heterotopic Transformations, The (Il)Liberal Neoliberal....Pages 1-21
Front Matter....Pages 23-23
Nintendo Museum: Intercultural Pedagogy, Neoliberal Citizenship, and a Theatre without Actors....Pages 25-41
Archeologies of Empire: Colonial Hollywood and the Neoliberal Academy....Pages 42-52
Neoliberalism, the Arts, and the Global University....Pages 53-64
Branding the Revolution: Hair Redux....Pages 65-78
Front Matter....Pages 79-79
I Feel for You....Pages 81-96
Staging a Moving Map in Byron Au Yong’s and Aaron Jafferis’s Stuck Elevator....Pages 97-112
Fighting for a Future in a Free Trade World....Pages 113-127
Unchecked Popularity: Neoliberal Circulations of Black Social Dance....Pages 128-140
Front Matter....Pages 141-141
Model Dissent: Lưu Quang Vũ and the Melodramatic Performance of Renovation in Post-War Vietnam....Pages 143-160
Representational Practices and Real Abstractions in Early Eighteenth-Century London....Pages 161-175
The Gift of the New Orleans Second Line....Pages 176-188
Wole Soyinka’s The Beatification of Area Boy as Neoliberal Kaleidoscope....Pages 189-205
Front Matter....Pages 207-207
Teatro Visión and the Limits of Chicano Politics in Neoliberal Space....Pages 209-220
Repairing Teatro Oficina Perdiz....Pages 221-236
Palimpsestic City: Nostalgia in Neoliberal Bangalore....Pages 237-252
Desiring the Stage: The Interplay of Mobility and Resistance....Pages 253-265
Aquatopia: Harmattan Theater, Neoliberal Provisionality, and the Future of Water....Pages 266-276
Back Matter....Pages 277-316

✦ Subjects

Theatre and Performance Studies; Performing Arts; Theatre History; Political Theory