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Restaging the Future
Louise Owen
其他書名
Neoliberalization, Theater, and Performance in Britain
出版
Northwestern University Press
, 2023-12-15
主題
Performing Arts / General
Performing Arts / Theater / History & Criticism
ISBN
0810146061
9780810146068
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=n2X2EAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
An examination of neoliberal ideology’s ascendance in 1990s and 2000s British politics and society through its effect on state-supported performance practices
Post-Thatcher, British cultural politics were shaped by the government’s use of the arts in service of its own social and economic agenda.
Restaging the Future: Neoliberalization, Theater, and Performance in Britain
interrogates how arts practices and cultural institutions were enmeshed with the particular processes of neoliberalization mobilized at the end of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first.
Louise Owen traces the uneasy entanglement of performance with neoliberalism's marketization of social life. Focusing on this political moment, Owen guides readers through a wide range of performance works crossing multiple forms, genres, and spaces—from European dance tours, to Brazilian favelas, to the streets of Liverpool—attending to their distinct implications for the reenvisioned future in whose wake we now live.
Analyzing this array of participatory dance, film, music, public art, and theater projects, Owen uncovers unexpected affinities between community-based, experimental, and avant-garde movements.
Restaging the Future
provides key historical context for these performances, their negotiations of their political moment, and their themes of insecurity, identity, and inequality, created in a period of profound ideological and socioeconomic change.