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A Queer Sort of Materialism: Recontextualizing American Theater (Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance)
David Savran
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Paperback. An eclectic collection of essays on theater and its decline as highbrow culture, under the influence of theme parks and blockbuster movies Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance. Num Pages: 246 pages. BIC Classification: AN; JFSK2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 352.
In this eclectic collection, leading theater critic and cultural commentator David Savran explores the intersections between art and culture, offering smart, compelling interpretations of the economic and social contexts of theatrical texts and practices. Acknowledging theater's marginal status in U.S. culture, A Queer Sort of Materialism takes on "the troublemakers—the ghost, closeted homosexual, masochist, drag king, Third World laborer, even the white male as victim"—who figure more prominently in theater than in other cultural forms. In impeccably researched and argued essays that range in subject matter and style from Rodgers and Hammerstein to Paula Vogel, from Suddenly Last Summer to ... Read more, Savran uncovers the ways that such troublemakers both challenge and reinforce orthodox social practices.
The selections presented here are at turns entertaining, informative, sophisticated, and polemical, reflecting the author's dual citizenship as rigorous scholar and engaging theater critic. A Queer Sort of Materialism also provides a model for a kind of queer historical materialism that will prove useful to a wide range of disciplines, including theater and performance, gender and sexuality, queer/gay/lesbian/transgender studies, American studies, and popular culture. Show Less
In this eclectic collection, leading theater critic and cultural commentator David Savran explores the intersections between art and culture, offering smart, compelling interpretations of the economic and social contexts of theatrical texts and practices. Acknowledging theater's marginal status in U.S. culture, A Queer Sort of Materialism takes on "the troublemakers—the ghost, closeted homosexual, masochist, drag king, Third World laborer, even the white male as victim"—who figure more prominently in theater than in other cultural forms. In impeccably researched and argued essays that range in subject matter and style from Rodgers and Hammerstein to Paula Vogel, from Suddenly Last Summer to ... Read more, Savran uncovers the ways that such troublemakers both challenge and reinforce orthodox social practices.
The selections presented here are at turns entertaining, informative, sophisticated, and polemical, reflecting the author's dual citizenship as rigorous scholar and engaging theater critic. A Queer Sort of Materialism also provides a model for a kind of queer historical materialism that will prove useful to a wide range of disciplines, including theater and performance, gender and sexuality, queer/gay/lesbian/transgender studies, American studies, and popular culture. Show Less
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
Series
Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance
Number of Pages
246
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472068364
SKU
V9780472068364
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About David Savran
David Savran is Professor of Theater, the Graduate Center, the City University of New York. His other books include Cowboys, Communists, and Queers: The Politics of Masculinity in the Work of Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams; Taking It Like a Man: White Masculinity, Masochism, and Contemporary American Culture; and The Masculinity Studies Reader (with Rachel Adams).
Reviews for A Queer Sort of Materialism: Recontextualizing American Theater (Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance)
This book draws together a delectable assortment of David Savran's scholarly and journalistic writings from the mid-1990s onwards—each revised and extended for the volume—together with a couple of original pieces. One of the many qualities of the book is that, in purposely writing for different groups of readers, the author has been led 'to examine the popular next to the ... Read more