Harvey Young, Author
An interdisciplinary study bridging art history, media study, and performance studies, Virtually Black: Mediated Encounters with Race spotlights the ongoing desire to possess and, in turn, to know blackness not by interacting with actual black folk but by engaging with their representation. Employing performance studies methodology and the methods of visual or screen cultures study, it examines the thrall for the image and explores how these virtual engagements granted a familiarity with blackness that has informed and shaped racial discourse over the past century.
An interdisciplinary study bridging art history, media study, and performance studies, Virtually Black: Mediated Encounters with Race spotlights the ongoing desire to possess and, in turn, to know blackness not by interacting with actual black folk but by engaging with their representation. Employing performance studies methodology and the methods of visual or screen cultures study, it examines the thrall for the image and explores how these virtual engagements granted a familiarity with blackness that has informed and shaped racial discourse over the past century.
Harvey Young, Editor
Part of the larger Great North American Theatre Directors series, Great American North American Directors: Elia Kazan, Lloyd Richards, Jerome Robbins provides an authoritative account of the art form of directing in North America by examining the works of three leading directors: Elia Kazan (A Streetcar Named Desire), Jerome Robbins (West Side Story), and Lloyd Richards (A Raisin in the Sun).
Part of the larger Great North American Theatre Directors series, Great American North American Directors: Elia Kazan, Lloyd Richards, Jerome Robbins provides an authoritative account of the art form of directing in North America by examining the works of three leading directors: Elia Kazan (A Streetcar Named Desire), Jerome Robbins (West Side Story), and Lloyd Richards (A Raisin in the Sun).
Harvey Young, Editor
Race Play: Performing Identity on Stage offers an accessible introduction to the presentation of race both on and offstage. Featuring new, original essays by prominent and emerging dance and theatre scholars, this edited collection examines how racial and ethnic identities are embodied and enacted through performance.
Race Play: Performing Identity on Stage offers an accessible introduction to the presentation of race both on and offstage. Featuring new, original essays by prominent and emerging dance and theatre scholars, this edited collection examines how racial and ethnic identities are embodied and enacted through performance.