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Utopia in Performance: Finding Hope at the Theater
Jill Dolan
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Description for Utopia in Performance: Finding Hope at the Theater
Hardcover. In Utopia in Performance, Jill Dolan traces the sense of visceral, emotional and social connection that we experience at the theatre, connections that allow us to feel for a moment not what a better world might look like, but what it might feel like, and how that hopeful utopic sentiment might become motivation for social change. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: AN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 649.
A passionate book that underscores the critical contribution that the theater arts can make to imagining a more just world What is it about performance that draws people to sit and listen attentively in a theater, hoping to be moved and provoked, challenged and comforted? In Utopia in Performance, Jill Dolan traces the sense of visceral, emotional and social connection that we experience at such times, connections that allow us to feel for a moment not what a better world might look like, but what it might feel like, and how that hopeful utopic sentiment might become motivation for social ... Read more
A passionate book that underscores the critical contribution that the theater arts can make to imagining a more just world What is it about performance that draws people to sit and listen attentively in a theater, hoping to be moved and provoked, challenged and comforted? In Utopia in Performance, Jill Dolan traces the sense of visceral, emotional and social connection that we experience at such times, connections that allow us to feel for a moment not what a better world might look like, but what it might feel like, and how that hopeful utopic sentiment might become motivation for social ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472099078
SKU
V9780472099078
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About Jill Dolan
Scholar, critic, and theorist Jill Dolan is Zachary T. Scott Family Chair in Drama at the University of Texas, Austin. She is author of The Feminist Spectator as Critic; Presence and Desire: Essays on Gender, Sexuality, and Performance; and Geographies of Learning: Theory and Practice, Activism and Performance.
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