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Approaching the millennium : essays on Angels in America
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ISBN: 0472066234 0472096230 Year: 1997 Publisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press,


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AIDS literature and gay identity : the literature of loss
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ISBN: 9780415808873 9780203098615 9781136227943 9781136227899 9781136227936 9781138936980 Year: 2013 Volume: 29 Publisher: New York London Routledge

Acts of intervention : performance, gay culture, and AIDS
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ISBN: 0253211689 Year: 1998 Volume: *2 Publisher: Bloomington Indianapolis Indiana University Press


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Mainstream AIDS theatre, the media, and gay civil rights : making the radical palatable
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ISBN: 9780367737320 0367737329 Year: 2020 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

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"This book demonstrates the political potential of mainstream theatre in the US at the end of the twentieth century, tracing ideological change over time in the reception of US mainstream plays taking HIV/AIDS as their topic from 1985 to 2000. This is the first study to combine the topics of the politics of performance, LGBT theatre, and mainstream theatre’s political potential, a juxtaposition that shows how radical ideas become mainstream, that is, how the dominant ideology changes. Using materialist semiotics and extensive archival research, Juntunen delineates the cultural history of four pivotal productions from that period—Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart (1985), Tony Kushner’s Angels in America (1992), Jonathan Larson’s Rent (1996), and Moises Kaufman’s The Laramie Project (2000). Examining the connection between AIDS, mainstream theatre, and the media reveals key systems at work in ideological change over time during a deadly epidemic whose effects changed the nation forever. Employing media theory alongside nationalism studies and utilizing dozens of reviews for each case study, the volume demonstrates that reviews are valuable evidence of how a production was hailed by society’s ideological gatekeepers. Mixing this new use of reviews alongside textual analysis and material study—such as the theaters’ locations, architectures, merchandise, program notes, and advertising—creates an uncommonly rich description of these productions and their ideological effects. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of theatre, politics, media studies, queer theory, and US history, and to those with an interest in gay civil rights, one of the most successful social movements of the late twentieth century." --

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