1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910777859503321

Titolo

Bush v. Gore [[electronic resource] ] : the question of legitimacy / / edited by Bruce Ackerman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2002

ISBN

1-281-74060-8

9786611740603

0-300-12700-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (255 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

AckermanBruce A

Disciplina

342.73/075

Soggetti

Presidents - United States - Election - 2000

Contested elections - Florida

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

An unreasonable reaction to a reasonable decision / Charles Fried -- Not as bad as Plessy. Worse / Jed Rubenfeld -- EroG v. hsuB : through the looking glass / Laurence H. Tribe -- In partial (but not partisan) praise of principle / Guido Calabresi -- The fallibility of reason / Owen Fiss -- Sustaining the premise of legality : learning to live with Bush v. Gore / Robert Post -- Can the rule of law survive Bush v. Gore / Margaret Jane Radin -- A political question / Steven G. Calabresi -- Political questions and the hazards of pragmatism / Jeffrey Rosen -- The conservatism in Bush v. Gore / Mark Tushnet -- Does the constitution enact the republican party platform? : beyond Bush v. Gore / Cass R. Sunstein -- Off balance / Bruce Ackerman -- Legitimacy and the 2000 election / Jack M. Balkin.

Sommario/riassunto

The Supreme Court's intervention in the 2000 election will shape American law and democracy long after George W. Bush has left the White House. This vitally important book brings together a broad range of preeminent legal scholars who address the larger questions raised by the Supreme Court's actions. Did the Court's decision violate the rule of law? Did it inaugurate an era of super-politicized jurisprudence? How should Bush v. Gore change the terms of debate over the next round of Supreme Court appointments?The contributors-Bruce Ackerman, Jack



Balkin, Guido Calabresi, Steven Calabresi, Owen Fiss, Charles Fried, Robert Post, Margaret Jane Radin, Jeffrey Rosen, Jed Rubenfeld, Cass Sunstein, Laurence Tribe, and Mark Tushnet-represent a broad political spectrum. Their reactions to the case are varied and surprising, filled with sparkling argument and spirited debate. This is a must-read book for thoughtful Americans everywhere.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910494560203321

Autore

Linton David <1967->

Titolo

Nation and Race in West End Revue : 1910-1930 / / by David Linton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2021

ISBN

9783030752095

3030752097

Edizione

[1st ed. 2021.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (206 pages)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in British Musical Theatre, , 2946-4145

Disciplina

782.1409

792.60942109041

Soggetti

Theater - History

Theater

Performing arts

Theatre History

National and Regional Theatre and Performance

Theatre and Performance Arts

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Reading London West End Revue -- Chapter 2: Revue in the Modern World: Possibilities and Perils -West End Identities -- Chapter 3: New Insecurities, New Form, New Identity- National Identity and Raciologies in Eightpence a Mile (1913) -- Chapter 4: Degeneration/Regeneration - The Remaking of Nation in Wartime West End Spectacular Revue -- Chapter 5: Blackbirds in London: Black Internationalism and the Black Imaginary -- Chapter 6: Class Distinction and National Identity in 1920s West End Intimate Revue.



Sommario/riassunto

London West End revue constituted a particular response to mounting social, political, and cultural insecurities over Britain's status and position at the beginning of the twentieth century. Insecurities regarding Britain's colonial rule as exemplified in Ireland and elsewhere, were compounded by growing demands for social reform across the country - the call for women's emancipation, the growth of the labour, and the trade union movements all created a climate of mounting disillusion. Revue correlated the immediacy of this uncertain world, through a fragmented vocabulary of performance placing satire, parody, social commentary, and critique at its core and found popularity in reflecting and responding to the variations of the new lived experiences. Multidisciplinary in its creation and realisation, revue incorporated dance, music, design, theatre, and film appropriating pre-modern theatre forms, techniques, and styles such as burlesque, music hall, pantomime, minstrelsy, and pierrot. Experimenting with narrative and expressions of speech, movement, design, and sound, revue displayed ambivalent representations that reflected social and cultural negotiations of previously essentialised identities in the modern world. Part of a wide and diverse cultural space at the beginning of the twentieth century it was acknowledged both by the intellectual avant-garde and the workers theatre movement not only as a reflexive action, but also as an evolving dynamic multidisciplinary performance model, which was highly influential across British culture. Revue displaced the romanticism of musical comedy by combining a satirical listless detachment with a defiant sophistication that articulated a fading British hegemonic sensibility, a cultural expression of a fragile and changing social and political order. David Linton is a performer/theatre practitioner and senior lecturer in Drama at Kingston University, London, UK. His research explores issues of resistance, adaptation, and exchange in theatre. This focuses on participatory arts practice, black British performance and pre-modern popular theatre forms, and their contemporary applications, specifically mask/minstrelsy, pantomime, burlesque/neo burlesque, cabaret, pierrot, hip hop theatre, and revue.