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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Angels in America"”.
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Truly An Awesome Spectacle: Gender Performativity And The Alienation Effect In Angels In America
Tony Kushner's two-part play Angels in America uses stereotypical depictions of gay men to deconstruct traditional gender dichotomies. In this thesis, I argue that Kushner has created a continuum of gender performativity to deconstruct these traditional gender dichotomies, thereby empowering the …
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‘I used to be subversive, but now I’m gay’: representations of queer identities on the American stage from the postwar to the 1990s
The central aim of this study is to examine ‘non-normative’ masculinities constructed and represented in American drama, theatre and performance throughout the second half of the twentieth century, thus assessing the ‘queer’ challenges these masculinities present to hegemonic ‘heteronormativity.’ …
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The Evolution of AIDS as Subject Matter in Select American Dramas
Dramatic works from America with AIDS as subject matter have evolved over the past twenty years. In the early 1980s, dramas like Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart, William Hoffman's As Is, and Robert Chesley's Night Sweat educated primarily homosexual men about AIDS, its causes, and its effects on …
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Expanding Theatre: Directing Approaches from Contemporary Chilean Women Directors
This thesis examines the careers, theatrical ideologies, and directing methodologies of three contemporary Chilean women stage directors: Andrea Giadach, Alexandra von Hummel, and Ignacia González. Respective chapters provide an overview of each director’s career that includes mention of formative …
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Representing the 'Crisis' in Masculinity : British and North American Male Playwrights, 1990-2005.
The concept of a '"crisis" in masculinity' came to prominence in Britain and North America during the 1990s. This phenomenon developed out of several decades in which the notion of 'the subject' came under critical scrutiny, both from developments in postmodern and post-structuralist theory, and …
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Reading the Queer Renaissance
"""Reading the Queer Renaissance"" puts a name to the unprecedented outpouring of creative work by lesbian and gay novelists, poets, and playwrights in the 1980s and 90s, and articulates this efflorescence of queer creativity to the contemporary ""renaissance"" of radical gay and lesbian political …
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The dialogism of self and other in contemporary American drama
This work is interdisciplinary in orientation and brings together American theatre (and culture) and contemporary ethical philosophy. I am introducing the French philosopher Emmanuel Lévinas and his theory of Self and Other to an analysis of contemporary American drama—a mode of approach that is …