Modern politics is preoccupied with states of emergency. Yet emergency politics obscures underlying socio-economic, infrastructural, and ecological conditions of need. Prompted by Hannah Arendt's claim that theater is "the political art par excellence," Benjamin Lewis Robinson treats this political perplexity as a theatrical problem. In the ......
Modern politics is preoccupied with states of emergency. Yet emergency politics obscures underlying socio-economic, infrastructural, and ecological conditions of need. Prompted by Hannah Arendt's claim that theater is "the political art par excellence," Benjamin Lewis Robinson treats this political perplexity as a theatrical problem. In the ......
Since the late nineteenth century, various agencies of the U.S. government have attempted to manage "suspect" immigrants, colonial subjects, and activists of Asian descent through bureaucratic procedures involving extensive paperwork and live examinations. These procedures have given institutional authority and form to suspicion but rarely ......
Since the late nineteenth century, various agencies of the U.S. government have attempted to manage "suspect" immigrants, colonial subjects, and activists of Asian descent through bureaucratic procedures involving extensive paperwork and live examinations. These procedures have given institutional authority and form to suspicion but rarely ......
Unequivocal Magic speaks to the "quiet power" of photographs and their hidden creativity, bringing readers into the author's own journey into the history of a 1910 portrait of iconic French actress, Sarah Bernhardt. What begins as a quest to recognize the work of her once renowned photographer, Walter Barnett, becomes a story about the female ......
Do Jane Austen novels truly celebrate-or undermine-romance and happy endings? How did Jane Austen become a cultural icon for fairy-tale endings when her own books end in ways that are rushed, ironic, and reluctant to satisfy readers' thirst for romance? In Jane Austen and the Price of Happiness, Austen scholar Inger Sigrun Bredkjaer Brodey ......
As one of the most influential contemporary film scholars, Linda Williams brought her critical feminist lens to some of society's most maligned and underappreciated film genres and showed their undeniable impact on the evolution of cinema. Melodrama as Provocateur brings what was to be Williams's last project - a comparative investigation of ......
Melodrama as Provocateur showcases the final project of influential film scholar Linda Williams, along with responses to her work by a diverse collection of scholars. Together, these writings dig into the past, present, and future of melodrama’s prominence in contemporary media and politics.
Public Amusements, Variety Shows, and Racial Acts in an Age of Imitation, 1898-1919
In the early twentieth-century, Canada's theatres were mostly controlled by Americans. As variety shows flooded these stages, new forms of blackface, inspired by modern forms of amusements, changed the theatre. In this era marked by progressive social reforms, the stage embodied the modern ethos of imitation, mimicry, and change. Staging ......
