Captive audience : prison and captivity in contemporary theater / / edited by Thomas Fahy and Kimball King

• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (207 p.)
• Disciplina: 809.2/9355; 809.29355
• Soggetto topico: Drama - 20th century - History and criticism; Prisons in literature; Prisoners in literature; Imprisonment in literature
• Altri autori: FahyThomas Richard KingKimball
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Contents; General Editor's Note; CAPTIVE AUDIENCE: AN INTRODUCTION; THE CONFESSIONAL VOICE: MEDEA'S BRUTAL IMAGINATION; EMOTIONAL CONTRABAND: PRISON AS METAPHOR AND MEANINGIN U.S. LATINA DRAMA; SEEING ETHNICITY: THE IMPACT OF RACE AND CLASS ON THE CRITICAL RECEPTION OF MIGUEL PIERO'S SHORT EYES; ON PRISONS IN THE UNITED STATES: EXTRACT FROM A SPEECH DELIVERED TO THE CONFEDERATION OF ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGISTS, LONDON, 25 JUNE 1999; HAROLD PINTER'S PRISON HOUSE: THE SCREENPLAY OF KAFKA'S THE TRIAL; HAROLD PINTER'S THE HANDMAID'S TALE: FREEDOM, PRISON, AND A HIJACKED SCRIPT ; ~A WORLD OF BODIES~: PERFORMING FLESH IN MARAT/SADETHE DISPOSAL: WILLIAM INGE'S ABJECT DRAMA; ~IN DARK CORNERS~: MASCULINITY AND ART IN TENNESSEE WILLIAMS'S NOTABOUT NIGHTINGALES; PHYSICAL PRISONS: NAOMI WALLACE'S DRAMA OF CAPTIVITY; NO EXIT AND WAITING FOR GODOT: PERFORMANCES IN CONTRAST; Contributors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This all-new collection examines the social, gendered, ethnic, and cultural problems of incarceration as explored in contemporary theatre.
• Titolo autorizzato: Captive audience
• ISBN: 1-85411-148-5; 1-135-88894-9; 1-135-88895-7; 0-415-76258-8; 1-280-04794-1; 0-203-49485-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910783900803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in modern drama ; ; 19.