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Genre/Form: | History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Approaching the millennium. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©1997 (OCoLC)645881848 |
Named Person: | Tony Kushner; Tony Kushner; Tony Kushner; Tony (Schriftsteller) Kushner |
Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Deborah R Geis; Steven F Kruger |
ISBN: | 0472096230 9780472096237 0472066234 9780472066230 |
OCLC Number: | 37398059 |
Description: | viii, 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | Ambivalence, utopia, and a queer sort of materialism : how Angels in America reconstructs the nation / David Savran -- November 1, 1992 : AIDS/Angels in America / David Román -- Heavenquake : queer anagogies in Kushner's America / James Miller -- Strange angel : the pinklisting of Roy Cohn / Michael Cadden -- The vehicle of democracy : fantasies toward a [queer] nation / Ron Scapp -- When girls collide : considering race in Angels in America / Framji Minwalla -- Wrestling with angels : a jewish fantasia / Alisa Solomon -- Prior to the Normans : The Anglo-Saxons in Angels in America / Allen J. Frantzen -- Identity and conversion in Angels in America / Steven F. Kruger -- Angels in America : the millennium and postmodern memory / Stanton B. Garner Jr. -- Flying the angel of history / Martin Harries -- "The delicate ecology of your delusions" : insanity, theatricality, and the thresholds of revelation in Kushner's Angels in America / Deborah R. Geis -- Design for Angels in America : envisioning the millennium / Arnold Aronson -- On filming Angels : an interview / Robert Altman -- Notes on Angels in America as American epic theater / Janelle Reinelt -- "Dramaturging" the dialectic : Brecht, Benjamin, and Declan Donnellan's production of Angels in America / Art Borreca -- Representing sex on the British stage : the importance of Angels in America / Nicholas de Jongh -- "Free[ing] the erotic angels" : performing liberation in the 1970s and 1990s / Gregory W. Bredbeck. |
Series Title: | Theater--theory/text/performance. |
Responsibility: | Deborah R. Geis and Steven F. Kruger, editors. |
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Abstract:
Explores the complexities of Tony Kushner's complex and demanding play Angels in America and situate it in its particular, conflicted historical moment. The contributors help us understand and appreciate the play as a literary work, as theatrical text, as popular cultural phenomenon, and as political reflection and intervention.
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