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Mainstream AIDS Theatre, the Media, and Gay Civil Rights: Making the Radical Palatable

Mainstream AIDS Theatre, the Media, and Gay Civil Rights: Making the Radical Palatable

Juntunen, Jacob

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

General Gender StudiesTheater HistoryGLBTQIA Studies

ISBN10: 1138941727
ISBN13: 9781138941724
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Feb 8 2016
Pages: 202
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

This book shows the political potential of mainstream theatre in the US at the end of the 20th century, tracing ideological change in the reception of mainstream plays about HIV/AIDS. Studying the politics of performance, LGBT theatre, and mainstream theatre's political potential, it shows how radical ideas become mainstream and how dominant ideologies change. Using materialist semiotics and extensive archival research, Juntunen delineates the cultural history of The Normal Heart, Angels in America, Rent, and The Laramie Project. This book will be of interest to scholar of theatre, politics, media studies, queer theory, and US history, and to those with an interest in gay civil rights.

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