Search results for ""Author David Roman""
Indiana University Press Acts of Intervention: Performance, Gay Culture, and AIDS
From cabarets and candlelight vigils to full-scale Broadway productions such as Angels in America and Rent, over the past 15 years public performances and dramatic texts have shaped, and been shaped by, the history of AIDS. Author David Roman examines the ways that gay men have used alternative, activist, and mainstream theater and performance to intervene in the AIDS crisis. He considers solo performance, community-based projects, mixed-media events, activist demonstrations, and AIDS educational theater initiatives.Roman shows how performance and theater have participated in the cultural politics of race, sexuality, citizenship, and AIDS in the United States. Not only has the theater provided a forum for gay male response to the epidemic, Roman contends, but it has also determined the degree to which those responses have shaped the ideological formulation of AIDS. Acts of Intervention provides a new method for discussing the relation between AIDS and representation, combining ideas from performance theory, gay and lesbian studies, critical race discourse, and cultural studies.
£21.99
The University of Michigan Press The Taylor Mac Book: Ritual, Realness and Radical Performance
This is the first book to dedicate critical attention to the work of influential theater-maker Taylor Mac. Mac is particularly celebrated for the historic performance event A 24-Decade History of Popular Music, in which Mac, in fantastical costumes designed by collaborator Machine Dazzle, sang the history of the United States for 24 straight hours in October 2016. The MacArthur Foundation soon thereafter awarded their “genius” award to a “writer, director, actor, singer, and performance artist whose fearlessly experimental works dramatize the power of theater as a space for building community . . . [and who] interacts with the audience to inspire a reconsideration of assumptions about gender, identity, ethnicity, and performance itself.” Featuring essays, interviews, and commentaries by noted critics and artists, the volume examines the vastness of Mac’s theatrical imagination, the singularity of their voice, the inclusiveness of their cultural insights and critiques, and the creativity they display through stylistic and formal qualities and the unorthodoxies of their personal and professional trajectories. Contributors consider the range of Mac’s career as a playwright, performer, actor, and singer, expanding and enriching the conversation on this much-celebrated and deeply resonant body of work.
£39.25
Nau Llibres (Edicions Culturals Valencianes, S.A.) Un lugar en el mundo guía de prácticas restaurativas para centros de protección a la infancia y adolescencia
Un lugar en el mundo no trata de conflictos en centros de protección a la infancia, de su gestión ni de su prevención. No habla de construir vínculos ni de convivencia, ni tampoco de infancias y adolescencias maltratadas o en situación de desamparo. Este libro aborda todas estas cuestiones y muchas más. Las páginas que tienes entre manos son una guía, muy práctica y basada en ejemplos reales, que te aproximará a una serie de técnicas que llevarán a mejorar la vinculación de los chicos a las instituciones ?no solo de protección? y a sus profesionales, previniendo los conflictos y gestionándolos de un modo reparador, en caso que se produzcan. Alejado de la perspectiva retributiva ?el que la hace la paga?, se centra en un planteamiento restaurativo; esto es, el que la hace, tiene la obligación de reparar el daño causado y hacer lo posible para que nada parecido vuelva a suceder. Pero, Cómo reparamos las relaciones en las instituciones? Y sobre todo, Cómo hacemos para evitar que se dañen?
£14.34
Academica Press Emperor Whisperers: A Comparative History of Ancient Chinese and Western Philosophy
Emperor Whisperers charts a comparative history of the two largest strains of ancient philosophy, from the first millennium BC to around AD 500. The book examines how philosophy arose from atheism in both China and Greece but entered a cul de sac when atheism spread from the elites to the middle classes. China's philosophy evolved to oppose law with morals, which created a mandarin class of "emperor whisperers," while Western philosophy was complicated by competing political systems that were only harmonized by the triumph of the Roman Empire. As antiquity came to an end, imported new religions – Buddhism and Christianity – reintroduced faith into elite thought and kickstarted the Middle Ages, the book concludes.
£107.00
