Actors and Activists: Performance, Politics, and Exchange Among Social Worlds

AMERICAN POPULAR HISTORY AND CULTURE......Page 1
Actors and Activists: Politics, Performance, and Exchange Among Social Worlds......Page 2
Contents......Page 5
Acknowledgments......Page 7
Illustrations......Page 9
Introduction......Page 11
CHAPTER 1 Exchange Between Art Worlds and Political Worlds......Page 31
I. NECESSARILY CUMBERSOME TERVIINOLOGY......Page 35
II. PERENNIAL QUESTIONS OF PERFORVL4NCE AND POLITICS......Page 38
III. SOCIOLOGY, CRITICAL THEORY, POLITICS, AND REPRESENTATION......Page 43
IV. AN INCLUSIVE MODEL FOR THE INTERSECTION OF POLITICS AND PERFORMANCE......Page 59
V. METHODOLOGY......Page 69
VI. HISTORICAL EXAMPLES OF THE INTERSECTION OF ACTIVISM AND INSTITUTIONAL PERFORMANCE......Page 73
NOTES......Page 77
CHAPTER 2 Political Insiders and Art Activist Performance in the 1990s......Page 89
I. ACTIVISM......Page 90
II. THE DEVIONSTRATION AS PERFORMANCE......Page 97
III. ACTIVIST PERFORMANCE......Page 100
IV. ACTIVIST PERFORMANCE AND INSTITUTIONAL PERFORMANCE......Page 129
NOTES......Page 138
CHAPTER 3 Theatre Insiders and Politics Miss Saigon, Commercial Theatre, Professional Actors, and Activism......Page 147
I. COMMERCIAL THEATRE, POLITICS, AND REPRESENTATION......Page 150
II. THE POLITICS OF MISS SAIGON......Page 154
III. A TRADITION OF ACTIVISM......Page 163
IV. ACTIVISM GOES TO THE THEATRE: THE MISS SAIGON CONTROVERSIES ANALYZED......Page 170
V. NEGOTIATION OF POLITICAL ACTIVISVI BY PROFESSIONAL ACTORS......Page 190
NOTES......Page 196
CHAPTER 4 Artist-Activists and Blurring Boundaries Karen Finley, John Fleck, Holly Hughes, and Tim Miller......Page 217
I. PERFORVIANCE ART, INSTITUTIONAL PERFORMANCE, AND POLITICS......Page 219
11. THE ACTIVIST PERFORMANCE OF THE NEA FOUR......Page 224
111. ARTIST-ACTIVISTS AND NATIONAL POLITICAL DISCOURSE: THE NEA CONTROVERSIES......Page 254
NOTES......Page 267
Conclusion......Page 279
Appendix Chronology of Major Events Pertaining to the Cases......Page 287
Bibliography......Page 291