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Jean Genet: Performance and Politics

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  • © 2006

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Editors:
  1. Clare Finburgh

    1. University of Essex, UK

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  2. Carl Lavery

    1. Lancaster University, UK

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  3. Maria Shevtsova

    1. Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Clare Finburgh, Carl Lavery, Maria Shevtsova
      Pages 1-20

  3. Setting the Stage

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21
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    2. Jean Genet in His ‘Humour’

      • Michel Corvin
      Pages 23-33

    3. From Theatricality to Performance Theory: The Screens

      • David Bradby
      Pages 34-43

    4. The Theatre of Genet in Sociological Perspective

      • Maria Shevtsova
      Pages 44-53

  5. Genet and Experimental Performance

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-93
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    2. Theatre in a Graveyard: Site-based Performance and the Revolution of Everyday Life

      • Carl Lavery
      Pages 95-105

    3. Dancing the Impossible: Kazuo Ohno, Lindsay Kemp and Our Lady of the Flowers

      • Martin Hargreaves
      Pages 106-116

    4. Jean, Ron, Franko and Me: Genet, Body Art and Abjection

      • Carl Lavery, Paul Woodward
      Pages 117-127

  6. Key Productions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 157-157
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    2. The Blacks and Its Impact on African American Theatre in the United States

      • John Warrick
      Pages 131-142

    3. Las criadas, Genet and Spain

      • Maria M. Delgado
      Pages 143-155

  7. Genet: Cinema and Dance

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 157-157
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    2. Corporeographies: The Dancing Body in ‘adame Miroir and Un chant d’amour

      • Elizabeth Stephens
      Pages 159-168

    3. Genet and Cinema: Adaptations and Influence

      • Jane Giles
      Pages 169-178
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About this book

This is the first book to explore the broad political significance of Genet's performance practice by focusing on his radical experiments, polemical subjects and formal innovations in theatre, film and dance. Its new approach brings together the diverse aspects of Genet's work through essays by international scholars and interviews.

Reviews

'This volume will be seen as a major landmark and intervention in the field. It will update and revivify Genet studies and draw attention to his ubiquitous presence across numerous art forms and discourses in the Anglo-Saxon world.' - Professor David Walker, University of Sheffield, UK

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Essex, UK

    Clare Finburgh

  • Lancaster University, UK

    Carl Lavery

  • Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK

    Maria Shevtsova

About the editors

DAVID BRADBY Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies, University of London, UK MICHEL CORVIN Professor Honore of Theatre Studies, Paris III University, France MARIA M.DELGADO Professor in Drama and Theatre Arts, Queen Mary, University of London, UK DAVID FIENI Writing a PhD at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA JANE GILES Director of Cinema, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK MARTIN HARGREAVES Lecturer in Dance and Performance, De Montfort University, UK ELIZABETH STEPHENS Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for the History of European Discourses, University of Queensland, Australia JOHN WARRICK PhD Candidate in Theatre, University of Washington, USA PAUL WOODWARD Lecturer in Contemporary Performance Studies, St Mary's College, Strawberry Hill, UK RALPH YARROW Professor and Chair of Drama, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK INTERVIEWEES: COLIN CHAMBERS TERRY HANDS LYNN JEFFRIES BILL RAUCH JEAN-BAPTISTE SASTRE RICHARD SCHECHNER JOSEPH STRICK.

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