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1 online resource (303 pages) |
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Routledge Advances in Theatre and Performance Studies |
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Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Culinary Theatres; PART I: Dramatizing Gluttony and Famine; 1 When You are What You Eat: Ruzzante and Historical Metabolism; 2 Gluttonous Pleasures: Arlequin, the Nouveau Théâtre Italien, and the Eighteenth-Century French Stage; 3 Staging the Politics of the Belly: Depictions of Food and Violence in the Zimbabwean Play Super Patriots and Morons; PART II: Staging Nationalism and Culture via Cuisine; 4 Staging Soul/Food in Rakugo and Shogekijo: Food and Theatre in Japan |
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5 Fools Festooned with Foods in Seventeenth-Century Popular German Theatre and Beyond6 Eating Red: Performing Maoist Nostalgia in Beijing's Revolution-themed Restaurants; PART III: Food Labor and Consuming Symbols; 7 Slaughterhouses and Sensorial Affect: Dramatizing Labor, Capitalism, and Industrial Food Production in Bertolt Brecht's Saint Joan of the Stockyards and Naomi Wallace's Slaughter City; 8 The Dinner from Hell/The Chef from Le Cordon Bleu: Omnium Gatherum and Food as Status Symbol after 9/11; 9 Look Who's for Dinner: Staging the Last Supper in Medieval Drama |
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PART IV: Food Activism Onstage10 Food Service and Resistance to Authoritarianism in the Southern Cone: Puesta en claro (Argentina) and Lo crudo, lo cocido y lo podrido (Chile); 11 Moveable Feasts and Immoveable Paradigms: Can Theatre Artists and Health Scientists Cook, Eat, and Play Well Together?; 12 The Right to Food Staples in India: Dramatizing a Cultural History of Shame and Pride; PART V: Food on the Other Side of the Footlights; 13 "Whole Sturgeons in Seuerall Dishes": The Performance of Feasting and Jonson's Love's Welcome at Bolsover |
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14 Dinner Dress -- Tales about Dora: Tasting the Limits of Semioticity, Consuming Autobiography, Contesting Israeliness15 Audience Appetites: Food, Class, and Consumption in New York City's Theatres; Contributors; Index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Performing arts -- Themes, motives
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Theater -- Production and direction.
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Food in art.
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Food in art.
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Theater -- Production and direction.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
White, Ann Folino
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| ISBN |
9781315752396 |
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1315752395 |
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