1st Edition
Mainstream AIDS Theatre, the Media, and Gay Civil Rights Making the Radical Palatable
By Jacob Juntunen
Copyright 2016
204 Pages
by
Routledge
202 Pages
by
Routledge
202 Pages
by
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... Read more
Introduction 1. Repairing Reality 2. Resistance: The Normal Heart 3. Assimilation: Angels in America 4. Commercialization: Rent 5. Normalization: The Laramie Project 6. Conclusion: Does It Get Better?
Biography
Jacob Juntunen is Associate Professor in the Department of Theater and in the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Southern Illinois University, USA.
"His book [...] will be instructive to varying degrees for all his readers as it renders visible the many ways that mainstream AIDS plays helped to transform the nation."
- Zachary A. Dorsey, James Madison University
