Unmarked The Politics of Performance

Name: Unmarked The Politics of Performance
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ISBN: 9780415068222

ISBN-10: 0415068223

ISBN-13: 9780415068222

Edition: 1996

Authors: Peggy Phelan

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As feminist film theory has made clear, representational visibility has psychic and political limitations. Simply being in the public eye does not guarantee access to power. Still, among the Left and within the field of cultural/performance studies, there is an almost ubiquitous assumption that visibility is a crucial aspect of progressive struggle. In Unmarked, Peggy Phelan looks at the relation between political and representational visibility within both the mainstream and the avant-garde. Phelan examines the limitations of visibility politics, suggesting that there may be political power inherent in disappearance from the visual field. Unmarked is a controversial study of the…

Book details

List price: $52.95
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 2/19/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 220
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.13" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 1.298



Acknowledgements



Broken Symmetries: Memory, Sight, Love



Developing the Negative: Mapplethorpe, Schor, and Sherman



Spatial Envy: Yvonne Rainer's the Man Who Envied Women



The Golden Apple: Jennie Livingston's Paris is Burning



Theatre and Its Mother: Tom Stoppard's Hapgood



White Men and Pregnancy: Discovering the Body to Be Rescued



The Ontology of Performance: Representation Without Reproduction


Afterword: Notes on Hope-For My Students


Notes


Bibliography


Index