Agitated States: Performance in the American Theater of Cruelty
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From the earliest Puritan displays of piety and rectitude to the present-day epidemic of staged school massacres, the history of America has been characterized by a dual impulse: to cast public event and character as high drama, and to dismiss theater and theatricalization as un-American, even evil. This book rethinks American history as theater, and theater as the ethos and substance of American life, ironically repudiated at every turn by the culture...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0472068113
ISBN13:9780472068111
Release Date:July 2002
Publisher:University of Michigan Press
Length:256 Pages
Weight:0.95 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.3" x 9.0"
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