Author: Anthony P. Pennino File Type: pdf This book investigates how the British theatrical community offered an alternative and oppositional historical narrative to the heritage culture promulgated by the Thatcher and Major Governments in the 1980s and early 1990s. It details the challenges the theatre faced, especially reductions in government funding, and examines seminal playwrights of the period including but not limited to Caryl Churchill, Howard Brenton, Sarah Daniels, David Edgar, and Brian Friel who dramatized a more inclusive vision of history that gave voice to traditionally marginalized communities. It employs James Baldwins concept of witnessing as the means by which history could be deployed to articulate an alternative and emergent political narrative the history we havent had. This book will appeal to students and scholars of theatre and cultural studies as well as theatre practitioners and enthusiasts. **From the Back Cover This book investigates how the British theatrical community offered an alternative and oppositional historical narrative to the heritage culture promulgated by the Thatcher and Major Governments in the 1980s and early 1990s. It details the challenges the theatre faced, especially reductions in government funding, and examines seminal playwrights of the period including but not limited to Caryl Churchill, Howard Brenton, Sarah Daniels, David Edgar, and Brian Friel who dramatized a more inclusive vision of history that gave voice to traditionally marginalized communities. It employs James Baldwins concept of witnessing as the means by which history could be deployed to articulate an alternative and emergent political narrative the history we havent had. This book will appeal to students and scholars of theatre and cultural studies as well as theatre practitioners and enthusiasts. About the Author Anthony P. Pennino teaches literature, theatre, and cinema at Stevens Institute of Technology, USA. He works primarily on post-war American, British, and Irish playwrights, and has published on August Wilson and William Shakespeare. He is especially interested in political theatre as well as contemporary performance and adaptation of Shakespeares canon.

Author: Elena Ferrante File Type: epub Nothing quite like this has ever been published before, proclaimed The Guardian about the Neapolitan novels in 2014. Against the backdrop of a Naples that is as seductive as it is perilous and a world undergoing epochal change, Elena Ferrante tells the story of a sixty-year friendship between the brilliant and bookish Elena and the fiery, rebellious Lila with unmatched honesty and brilliance.The four books in this novel cycle constitute a long, remarkable story, one that Vogue described as gutsy and compulsively readable, which readers will return to again and again, and each return will bring with it new revelations.

Author: Traci Roberts-Camps File Type: pdf Women are noticeably marginalized from the Latin American film industry, with lower budgets and inadequate distribution, and they often rely on their creativity to make more interesting films. This book highlights the voices and stories of some of these directors from Brazil, Chile, Argentina, and Mexico. Roberts-Campss insightful exploration is the most broad-ranging account of its kind, making the book relevant to the study of literature as well as film. **

Author: Frida Beckman File Type: pdf Is control is the cultural logic of the 21st century? Starting from Deleuzes brief but influential work on control, the 11 essays in this book focus on how control mechanisms influence, and are influenced by, cultural expression today. They also collectively re-evaluate Foucault and Deleuzes theories of discipline and control in light of the continued development of biopolitics. Written by an impressive line-up of contemporary scholars of philosophy, politics and culture the essays cover the particularity of control in relation to various fields and modes of expression including literature, cinema, television, music and philosophy. **About the Author Frida Beckman is Associate Professor in the Department of Culture and Aesthetics at Stockholm University, Sweden. Her books include Control Culture Foucault and Deleuze after Discipline (Edinburgh University Press, 2018) and Culture Control Critique Allegories of Reading the Present (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2016). She has also published extensively on Deleuze, where her books include Gilles Deleuze A Critical Life (Reaktion Books, 2017), Between Desire and Pleasure A Deleuzian Theory of Sexuality (Edinburgh University Press, 2013) and the edited collection Deleuze and Sex (Edinburgh University Press, 2011).