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Performing Difference: Representations of 'The Other' in Film and Theatre

Performing Difference: Representations of 'The Other' in Film and Theatre

Avisar, Ilan
Clum, John M.
Friedman, Jonathan C.

Paperback

Film StudiesTheater History

ISBN10: 0761841547
ISBN13: 9780761841548
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: Dec 24 2008
Pages: 310
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.89 Width: 6.29 Depth: 8.99
Language: English
Performing Difference is a compilation of seventeen essays from some of the leading scholars in history, criticism, film, and theater studies. Each author examines the portrayal of groups and individuals that have been traditionally marginalized or excluded from dominant historical narratives. As a meeting point of several fields of study, this book is organized around three meta-themes: race, gender, and genocide. Included are analyses of films and theatrical productions from the United States, as well as essays on cinema from Southern and Central America, Europe, and the Middle East. Topically, the contributing authors write about the depiction of race, ethnicities, gender and sexual orientation, and genocides. This volume assesses how the performing arts have aided in the social construction of the other in differing contexts. Its fundamental premise is that performance is powerful, and its unifying thesis is that the arts remain a major forum for advancing a more nuanced and humane vision of social outcasts, not only in the realm of national imaginations, but in social relations as well.

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