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Cultural Studies

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In Search of Admiration and Respect

Chinese Cultural Diplomacy in the United States, 1875–1974

By Yanqiu Zheng
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Political Science, Political Behavior and Public Opinion, Cultural Studies, History, Chinese History, Art, Art History, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Theater and Performance
Series: China Understandings Today

Reframes China's cultural diplomacy by using the emergence of the China Institute in America and the Chinese Nationalist government

Opera for Everyone

The Industry's Experiments with American Opera in the Digital Age

By Megan Steigerwald Ille
Subjects: Music, Music Composition, Musicology, Theater and Performance, Cultural Studies

How one opera company represents the economic precarity and aesthetic possibilities of operatic performance in the twenty-first century U.S.

The Creativity Complex

Art, Tech, and the Seduction of an Idea

By Shannon Steen
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Theater and Performance

How notions of creativity have evolved to serve the goals of neoliberalism—and what we can do about it

Ethnic Drag

Performing Race, Nation, Sexuality in West Germany

By Katrin Sieg
Subjects: German Studies, Cultural Studies, Theater and Performance, History
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

An exploration of the West German attempt to repress and refashion concepts of "race" after the Holocaust

The Global White Snake

By Liang Luo
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Theater and Performance, Cultural Studies, History, Chinese History
Series: China Understandings Today

Tracing the history and adaptation of one of China’s foundational texts

Resisting Spirits

Drama Reform and Cultural Transformation in the People’s Republic of China

By Maggie Greene
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Theater and Performance, History, Chinese History, Cultural Studies
Series: China Understandings Today

Even amidst the Maoist era’s politicized cultural production, culture workers continued to adapt traditional theatre to create bold new statements
 

Resisting Spirits

Drama Reform and Cultural Transformation in the People's Republic of China

By Maggie Greene
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Theater and Performance, History, Chinese History, Cultural Studies
Series: China Understandings Today

Even amidst the Maoist era’s politicized cultural production, culture workers continued to adapt traditional theatre to create bold new statements
 

The Passions of Peter Sellars

Staging the Music

By Susan McClary
Subjects: Music, Theater and Performance, Cultural Studies

Tracing the legendary career of Peter Sellars through his visually rich opera productions

Ruins

Classical Theater and Broken Memory

By Odai Johnson
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

Theorizing the effects of memory, absence, and disappearance in classical theater—the aesthetics of ruins

Textures of Mourning

Calligraphy, Mortality, and The Tale of Genji Scrolls

By Reginald Jackson
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Cultural Studies, Theater and Performance, Gender Studies
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Unfolds the intimate relationship between mourning, writing, reading, painting, and viewing, through The Tale of Genji and its legacy

Immersions in Cultural Difference

Tourism, War, Performance

By Natalie Alvarez
Subjects: Theater and Performance, American Studies, Cultural Studies
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

How immersive simulations—from a fictional border-crossing site to a mock terrorist training camp—attempt to foster understanding across cultures

Performance, Transparency, and the Cultures of Surveillance

By James M. Harding
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Cultural Studies, Art, Art History, Political Science, Human Rights

Examines the pervasive presence of surveillance and how surveillance technologies alter the performance of everyday life

Performing the Intercultural City

By Ric Knowles
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Cultural Studies, Race and Ethnicity
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

Explores how theater in Toronto, the world’s most multicultural city, vibrantly reflects its diversity and cultural makeup

The Sixties, Center Stage

Mainstream and Popular Performances in a Turbulent Decade

Edited by James M. Harding & Cindy Rosenthal
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Cultural Studies

Challenges the notion that the theater of the 1960s falls neatly into two categories, mainstream or experimental

Discipline and Desire

Surveillance Technologies in Performance

By Elise Morrison
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Art, Cultural Studies

Focuses on how contemporary artists have responded to the ubiquitous presence of surveillance technologies in our daily lives

Reckoning with Spirit in the Paradigm of Performance

By Donnalee Dox
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Religion, Cultural Studies

Reveals what might be gained by taking spirituality seriously as a constituent aspect of performance 

Vanguard Performance Beyond Left and Right

Edited by Kimberly Jannarone
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, Cultural Studies

Explores the complex relationship between avant-garde art and politics to reveal links with right-wing or fascist causes

After Live

Possibility, Potentiality, and the Future of Performance

By Daniel Sack
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

An exploration of how live events—theater, dance, and installation art—stage encounters between the present and a radically ambivalent future

Evita, Inevitably

Performing Argentina's Female Icons Before and After Eva Perón

By Jean Graham-Jones
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Latin American Studies, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies

Examines Argentina’s most iconic female figures, from saints to pop singers, politicians to anarchists

Animal Acts

Performing Species Today

Edited by Una Chaudhuri & Holly Hughes
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, Cultural Studies
Series: Critical Performances

Encounters between the species in an anthology of lively solo performances and commentary

The San Francisco Mime Troupe Reader

Edited by Susan Vaneta Mason
Subjects: Theater and Performance, American Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, Cultural Studies

Celebrates the San Francisco Mime Troupe with scripts representative of the troupe's work

Cultural Struggles

Performance, Ethnography, Praxis

By Dwight Conquergood
Edited by E. Patrick Johnson
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Cultural Studies, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, American Studies

Gathers the essential essays of Dwight Conquergood, performance studies scholar, ethnographer, and activist

Sensational Devotion

Evangelical Performance in Twenty-First-Century America

By Jill C. Stevenson
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Religion, American Studies, Cultural Studies

How evangelical theme parks, museums, and other performance sites both reflect and create religious belief

Performing Queer Latinidad

Dance, Sexuality, Politics

By Ramon H. Rivera-Servera
Subjects: Theater and Performance, American Studies, Latinx Studies, Sexuality Studies, Cultural Studies, Dance
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

The place of performance in unifying an urban LGBT population of diverse Latin American descent

Acts of Gaiety

LGBT Performance and the Politics of Pleasure

By Sara Warner
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Sexuality Studies, American Studies, Cultural Studies
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

The importance of pleasure, humor, and frivolity in shaping LGBT lives and activism

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