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A Good Night Out for the Girls: Popular Feminisms in Contemporary Theatre and Performance (Performance Interventions)
Aston, Elaine, Harris, Geraldine
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Description for A Good Night Out for the Girls: Popular Feminisms in Contemporary Theatre and Performance (Performance Interventions)
Hardcover. Moving across the boundaries of mainstream and experimental circuits, from the affective pleasures of commercially successful shows such as Calendar Girls and Mamma Mia! to the feminist possibilities of new burlesque and stand-up, this book offers a lucid and accessible account of popular feminisms in contemporary theatre and performance. Series: Performance Interventions. Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 143 x 19. Weight in Grams: 400.
Moving across the boundaries of mainstream and experimental circuits, from the affective pleasures of commercially successful shows such as Calendar Girls and Mamma Mia! to the feminist possibilities of new burlesque and stand-up, this book offers a lucid and accessible account of popular feminisms in contemporary theatre and performance.
Moving across the boundaries of mainstream and experimental circuits, from the affective pleasures of commercially successful shows such as Calendar Girls and Mamma Mia! to the feminist possibilities of new burlesque and stand-up, this book offers a lucid and accessible account of popular feminisms in contemporary theatre and performance.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
228
Condition
New
Series
Performance Interventions
Number of Pages
218
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230281035
SKU
V9780230281035
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Ref
99-15
About Aston, Elaine, Harris, Geraldine
ELAINE ASTON and GERALDINE HARRIS are theatre professors based at Lancaster University, UK. Elaine's publications include Feminist Views on the English Stage (2003) and Caryl Churchill (3rd edition, 2010). Geraldine's previous publications include Staging Femininities (1999) and Beyond Representation: The Politics and Aesthetics of Television Drama (2006). Together they have co-edited Feminist Futures: Theatre, Performance, Theory (2006) and co-authored Performance ... Read more
Reviews for A Good Night Out for the Girls: Popular Feminisms in Contemporary Theatre and Performance (Performance Interventions)
“It offers very personal accounts from both Aston and Harris as to their own experiences both as feminist scholars and performance spectators, making this a valuable addition to the fields of feminist studies and performance studies. … The personal, woman-centred tone deftly reflects the complex nature of the theoretical positions, performances and audiences being discussed.” (Cath Badham, Platform Postgraduate Journal ... Read more