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Acts of gaiety : LGBT performance and the politics of pleasure / Sara Warner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Warner, Sara.
- Series:
- Triangulations: lesbian/gay/queer theater/drama/performance
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gay theater--United States.
- Gay theater.
- Homosexuality and theater.
- Gay people and the performing arts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (292 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The importance of pleasure, humor, and frivolity in shaping LGBT lives and activism.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. "Scummy" Acts: Valerie Solanas's Theater of the Ludicrous
- 2. Guerrilla Acts: Marriage Protests, 1969 and 2009
- 3. Expatriate Acts: Jill Johnston's Joker Citizenship
- 4. Terrorist Acts: The Maladapted Hothead Paisan, a Lesbian Comedy of Terrors
- 5. Unnatural Acts: The Tragic Consequences of Homoliberalism in the Five Lesbian Brothers' Oedipus at Palm Springs
- Afterword
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-247) and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9780472904129
- 0472904124
- 9781283741286
- 1283741288
- 9780472028757
- 0472028758
- OCLC:
- 823740102
- Publisher Number:
- 10.3998/mpub.4845841
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