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Social Text (2007) 25 (4 (93)): 17–42.
Published: 01 December 2007
...Anna McCarthy © 2007 Duke University Press 2007 Reality Television: a Neoliberal Theater of Suffering
Last year, The Smoking Gun, a Web site owned by the Court TV network, Anna McCarthy
procured and published an internal memorandum from the producers...
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Social Text (2012) 30 (4 (113)): 1–24.
Published: 01 December 2012
... , this theater-music-dance suite fused elements of Afro-Caribbean rhythm with swing and bebop to tell a history of jazz, featuring acclaimed performers such as Carmen de Lavallade, Margaret Tynes, Joya Sherrill, and Talley Beatty. Structured by the conventions of the corporate-sponsored anthology drama, the CBS...
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Social Text (2024) 42 (1 (158)): 81–101.
Published: 01 March 2024
... of the electoral cycle the Democratic Alliance would be at particular pains to demonstrate its efficacy. In his 2003 book Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly about Security in an Uncertain World , Bruce Schneier coined the term security theater , referring to the elaborate public performances of security...
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Social Text (2001) 19 (4 (69)): 67–91.
Published: 01 December 2001
..., and strategies in Pakistan . Lahore: Shirkat Gah. Exposed by Pakistani Street Theater
THE UNHOLY ALLIANCE OF POSTMODERN CAPITALISM,
PATRIARCHY, AND FUNDAMENTALISM
The main question I...
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Social Text (2012) 30 (3 (112)): 27–47.
Published: 01 September 2012
... analyze a transcolonial identification that continues to capture Maghrebi and Mashreqi imaginaries today: the figure of Palestine. Focusing on a 1971 play by the Algerian writer Kateb Yacine and the popular theater troupe Workers’ Cultural Action, Mohamed Take Your Suitcase , I argue that this play co...
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Social Text (2009) 27 (4 (101)): 25–44.
Published: 01 December 2009
... to both colonial legacies and transnational capital. Joining conversations about the university's rabid corporatization, the essay uses the arts, and particularly the theater department, as a case study of how the bifurcation of professional training and scholarship, form and content, theory and practice...
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Social Text (2013) 31 (4 (117)): 25–47.
Published: 01 December 2013
... Philippine Theater, a “drag” production marketed to tourist audiences as “the largest transvestite show in Asia.” The paper suggests that the Film Center can be read as a modern ruin: a spectral environment that elicits a lost sense of optimism and globalism, while inducing feelings of terror and dread...
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Social Text (2014) 32 (4 (121)): 105–113.
Published: 01 December 2014
..., theater director, and activist, Alfaro is one of a number of artists that Muñoz engaged with in the performative collaboration between artist and writer. By focusing this essay on Alfaro’s work, I aim to not only work through the otherwise fixed schema of grief’s stages—the phases and places to which...
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Social Text (2014) 32 (4 (121)): 125–134.
Published: 01 December 2014
... learning places of theaters and clubs as much as classrooms and conferences, and following Jean-Luc Nancy—as does Muñoz—to understand “world” here as referring to that which “is said in every saying,” this essay considers how Muñoz’s aesthetic theory encourages promiscuity among fields of knowledge. ©...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (3 (136)): 47–69.
Published: 01 September 2018
..., to defamiliarize existing scholarship. Makeba’s long exile in Ahmed Sékou Touré’s Guinea between 1969 and 1986 is examined in the light of these claims. Here, Makeba crosses a theater of intense ideological contestation following Touré’s 1968 socialist cultural revolution, illuminating some of its constitutive...
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Social Text (2009) 27 (2 (99)): 25–53.
Published: 01 June 2009
... airwaves have been a crucial theater of partisan class conflict in Venezuelan society since the election of President Hugo Chávez, a radical social democrat who has counted on the residents of the nation's huge urban slums, or barrios, as a major constituency. This study concentrates on the two major...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (3 (108)): 127–138.
Published: 01 September 2011
...Bakirathi Mani In Geometric Landscapes and the Spectacle of Force , the Pakistani artist Seher Shah works with archival images of the 1903 Delhi Durbar and contemporary images of the U.S. “war on terror.” This essay examines how Shah's digital print binds together theaters of U.S. and British...
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Social Text (2024) 42 (4 (161)): 81–102.
Published: 01 December 2024
..., epistemology, intellectual, and cultural practice are all understood to unfold in the theater of racial capitalist warfare that offers up genocide not as exception but as paradigm. [email protected] [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 Palestine Israel Gaza...
FIGURES
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Social Text (2013) 31 (4 (117)): 49–76.
Published: 01 December 2013
... and moral lesson and then provokes performers to develop a nar-
rative. There are no written scripts. The studio taping is itself a raucous
affair. Since scenes are mostly improvised on camera after only loose
rehearsals, actors recreate the energy of live theater in the cavernous,
over–air...
Journal Article
Social Text (2002) 20 (4 (73)): 29–46.
Published: 01 December 2002
... as they were theatrical, Derrida made
many references both to his own body in the present, standing before his
audience, and to the classroom as a theater or a “salle de cinéma,” a place,
we cannot forget, where image projections occur. He...
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Social Text (2002) 20 (4 (73)): 65–89.
Published: 01 December 2002
... or, alternately,
exposed.
—David Eng
Exposing many discrepancies, Deepa Mehta’s film Fire provoked conflict
in India in 1998 as Hindu nationalist Shiv Sena members not only attacked
and closed theaters but also repeatedly condemned and attempted to com-
munalize the film for its “deviancy...
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Social Text (2009) 27 (4 (101)): np.
Published: 01 December 2009
..., and other journals. She recently edited the anthology
Cast Out: Queer Lives in Theater (University of Michigan Press). Her book
Racial Innocence: Performing Childhood and Race from “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”
to the New Negro Movement is forthcoming from New York University
Press.
Ananya...
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Social Text (2012) 30 (1 (110)): 91–108.
Published: 01 March 2012
... of the human in new Chinese artworks (paintings, instal-
lations, films, performances, and so on) that will challenge, extend, and
throw into doubt fixed notions of the human.
Chen Danqing: Street Theater...
Journal Article
Social Text (2014) 32 (4 (121)): 13–24.
Published: 01 December 2014
... outside of a theater with her son Esteban (Eloy Azorín) on his
eighteenth birthday. They’ve just attended a stage production of A Streetcar
Named Desire, and Esteban waits to ask for the autograph of the actress
Huma Rojo (Marisa Paredes). Huma emerges from the theater as Esteban
runs to her taxi...
Journal Article
Social Text (2017) 35 (3 (132)): 41–70.
Published: 01 September 2017
... and much higher ticket prices could be charged, meant that the single-screen theaters—home of the older film economy—were gradually devalued in the exhibition market. These theaters accommodated up to fifteen hundred people, whereas some multiplex screens would seat only about two hundred. The shift...
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