Description
- Case studies that provide students and teachers with key examples of the overlap between performance and popular culture.
- Case by case analysis considers the key questions, concepts and concerns with a particular focus on how ideas of race, gender, sexuality, class and culture can be seen to be performed.
- Will appeal to students and teachers of Performance Studies, Cultural Studies and Cultural History.
Table of Contents
PART I Screens and things1 The Marx Brothers: From stage to screen
2 Betty Boop’s animated performances
3 Performing the pandemic
PART II Boxed sets
4 Puppet plays: Boxes are made to be broken
5 I Love Lucy: From live performance to canned entertainment
6 Do you hear the people sing?
PART III Stars in our eyes
7 Like a diva: From Maria Callas to Madonna
8 Beyoncé’s Homecoming | ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing’
9 Got Talent
PART IV Public arts/art’s publics
10 Fragments of the past, cabinets of curiosity and cultural convergences
11 Marina Abramovic is present
12 Pepper’s Ghost and the haunted, educational exhibits at Wellington Museum
PART V Sporting arenas and fields of play
13 The fix is in: Professional wrestling
14 Olympian opening ceremonies
15 Cheerleaders in the popular (American) imagination
PART VI Sideshows no more
16 Evangelical performance: From morality plays to the Power Team and Hell House
17 Queer shows
18 Feminism: One step forward, three steps back?
PART VII Culture shows
19 Performing Maori
20 Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre: Planted in London, popping up in Auckland
21 Making a show of royalty
PART VIII Power, politics and protest
22 Donald Trump and the pro-wrestling-ifi cation of politics in the USA
23 Race matters
24 Visions of the apocalypse
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