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Spectacles of reform : theater and activism in nineteenth-century America /
This book explores how and why spectacle is a crucial component of the reform apparatus and a defining characteristic of American activism in general, whether highly organized or quietly quotidian. It advocates for a consideration of spectacle as methodology: a unique system of communication, employ...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
[2012]
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| Colección: | ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book explores how and why spectacle is a crucial component of the reform apparatus and a defining characteristic of American activism in general, whether highly organized or quietly quotidian. It advocates for a consideration of spectacle as methodology: a unique system of communication, employed in myriad context, that rehearses and sustains conceptions of race, gender, and class in extremely powerful ways. Spectacle capitalizes on the sensational and the profane, embracing what is deliberately hidden or secretly imagined and giving it material form. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 248 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-234) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780472028894 0472028898 1283941600 9781283941600 |