Agitated States: Performance in the American Theater of Cruelty

by Anthony Kubiak

Book Overview

From the earliest Puritan displays of piety and rectitude to the present-day epidemic of staged school massacres, the history of America has been characterized by a dual impulse: to cast public event and character as high drama, and to dismiss theater and theatricalization as un-American, even evil. This book rethinks American history as theater, and theater as the ethos and substance of American life, ironically repudiated at every turn by the culture...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472068113
• ISBN13: 9780472068111
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.0"