The Dubious Spectacle: Extremities of Theater, 1976-2000Spanning a quarter of a century, the essays in this book rehearse, in the movement of memory and cross-reflection, an extensive career in theater. The work of Herbert Blau--his directing, writing, and criticism--has been a determining force during this period as theater encounters theory. |
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... scene of the dubious spectacle itself, where collective identity—once taxed by tragedy for its funeral needs— passes too into the realm of commodification. Or so I suggest at the outset of this book's eponymous essay. “As for the ...
... scene of the dubious spectacle itself, where collective identity—once taxed by tragedy for its funeral needs— passes too into the realm of commodification. Or so I suggest at the outset of this book's eponymous essay. “As for the ...
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... scene, its obscenity of image, we seem to be living a redundancy of theater, so much so that even the system of representation appears to be obsolete. Or it is possible to think, as it is now being thought, that where the real has ended ...
... scene, its obscenity of image, we seem to be living a redundancy of theater, so much so that even the system of representation appears to be obsolete. Or it is possible to think, as it is now being thought, that where the real has ended ...
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... scenes, implacably, like His- tory itself.) Calling for a revolution, The Impossible Theater: A Manifesto (published in 1964) was a testament to the dream with, however, an ex- istential turn of mind, conscious that any apparent unity ...
... scenes, implacably, like His- tory itself.) Calling for a revolution, The Impossible Theater: A Manifesto (published in 1964) was a testament to the dream with, however, an ex- istential turn of mind, conscious that any apparent unity ...
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... scene, feminist, ethnic, gay, whatever, it becomes increasingly apparent that they can be, if anything, even more predictable, manipulable, or re- sponsive to banalities and stereotypes, than the bourgeois audience that, according to ...
... scene, feminist, ethnic, gay, whatever, it becomes increasingly apparent that they can be, if anything, even more predictable, manipulable, or re- sponsive to banalities and stereotypes, than the bourgeois audience that, according to ...
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... scene of action painting to the situationist dérive and its critique of commodity culture to vari- ous manifestations of autodestruction or the aesthetics of the orgastic in Viennese actionism, as well as the new technological order of ...
... scene of action painting to the situationist dérive and its critique of commodity culture to vari- ous manifestations of autodestruction or the aesthetics of the orgastic in Viennese actionism, as well as the new technological order of ...
Contents
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2 The Impossible Takes a Little Time | 18 |
3 Spacing Out in the American Theater | 37 |
Rehearsing the Resistance | 53 |
5 A Dove in My Chimney | 62 |
An Analytic Scenario | 70 |
The Grail of the Voice | 118 |
Chills and Fever Mourning and the Vanities of the Sublime | 132 |
13 Readymade Desire | 199 |
From Tango Palace to Mud | 206 |
The Group Idea and Its Legacy | 215 |
New Music and Theater | 230 |
17 FlatOut Vision | 246 |
Sovereign Pleasure and the Baroque Subject in the Tragicomedies of John Fletcher | 265 |
Revising the Abyss | 281 |
The Insane Root | 307 |
9 The Dubious Spectacle of Collective Identity | 137 |
Subtext of a Syllabus for the Arts in America | 157 |
Educating the American Theater | 181 |
12 The Pipe Dreams of ONeill in the Age of Deconstruction | 189 |
Notes | 321 |
Previous Publications | 335 |
Index | 337 |
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