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Beschreibung
Tactical Performance tells illuminating stories of underdogs speaking mirth to power through creative activist performance in the streets of cities around the world. It also provides the first ever full-length practical and theoretical guide to this work. Tactical Performance explores carnivalesque protest in unique depth, sharing the non-violent tactics and theatrics employed by groups which have captured the public imagination, and looking at the possibilities for direct action and confrontation with some of the most powerful institutions in the world. It is essential reading for anyone interested in creative pranksterism and the global justice movement.
Tactical Performance tells illuminating stories of underdogs speaking mirth to power through creative activist performance in the streets of cities around the world. It also provides the first ever full-length practical and theoretical guide to this work. Tactical Performance explores carnivalesque protest in unique depth, sharing the non-violent tactics and theatrics employed by groups which have captured the public imagination, and looking at the possibilities for direct action and confrontation with some of the most powerful institutions in the world. It is essential reading for anyone interested in creative pranksterism and the global justice movement.
Über den Autor

L.M. Bogad is Professor of political performance at the University of California at Davis. He is the author of Electoral Guerrilla Theatre: Radical ridicule and social movements, the plays Haymarket, Tahrir, COINTELSHOW: A patriot act, and Economusic: Keeping score. He is the founding director of the Center for Tactical Performance.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction A Red Carpet on the Picket Line: Tactical Performance

1 Tactical Carnival: Dialogism and Social Movements

2 Clownfrontation and Clowndestine Maneuvers: the Clown Army and the Irresistible Image

3 Reclaim the Streets: Tactical Interaction and the Urban Mallification/Mollification in New York City

4 Breaking Conventions, Breaking into Conventions (From the WTO to WTF?)

5 Critical Simulacra and Tricknology: Oil Enforcement Agents, Yes Men, and Survivaballs

6 All the News We Hope to Print: The Creation and Mass Distribution of Progressive Prank Papers

7 Crisis in Califorlornia: Creative Protest at the University of California

Conclusion Earning Moments for the Movement

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Genre: Importe, Kunst
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Thema: Theater & Film
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781138917842
ISBN-10: 1138917842
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Bogad, L. M.
Hersteller: Routledge
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 216 x 140 x 18 mm
Von/Mit: L. M. Bogad
Erscheinungsdatum: 25.02.2016
Gewicht: 0,41 kg
Artikel-ID: 128422118