Evita, Inevitably

Evita, Inevitably
Author: Jean Graham-Jones
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2014-10-23
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0472120557

Evita, Inevitably sheds new light on the history and culture of Argentina by examining the performances and reception of the country’s most iconic female figures, in particular, Eva Perón, who rose from poverty to become a powerful international figure. The book links the Evita legend to a broader pattern of female iconicity from the mid-nineteenth century onward, reading Evita against the performances of other female icons: Camila O’Gorman, executed by firing squad over her affair with a Jesuit priest; Difunta Correa, a devotional figure who has achieved near-sainthood; cumbia-pop performer Gilda; the country’s patron saint, the Virgin of Luján; and finally, Argentina’s president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. Employing the tools of discursive, visual, and performance analysis, Jean Graham-Jones studies theatrical performance, literature, film, folklore, Catholic iconography, and Internet culture to document the ways in which these “femicons” have been staged.

Eva Perón

Eva Perón
Author: María Belén Rabadán Vega
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2021-08-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1538139138

No Latin American woman has ever elicited such extreme feelings of love and hate as Eva Perón. She was an actress of humble origins who fell in love with and married the soon-to-be president of Argentina, Juan Domingo Perón. Evita, as she was fondly known, became the most powerful woman in Argentine history. Adored by the masses and loathed by the bourgeoisie, Evita polarized Argentine society. Not even her death could put an end to the mixed feelings she aroused during her lifetime, and Evita remains till this day a controversial figure. Eva Perón: A Reference Guide to Her Life and Works captures Evita’s eventful life, her works, and her legacy. The volume features a chronology that includes her childhood, her acting career, her trip to Europe, her political activity, her illness, and her death, as well as more recent events that have memorialized her. While an introduction offers a brief account of her life, a dictionary section lists entries on people, places, and events related to her. A comprehensive bibliography offers a list of works by and about Evita. Finally, a filmography includes the movies in which Evita appeared and the TV series and films that have been made about her.

Actor-Network Dramaturgies

Actor-Network Dramaturgies
Author: Stefano Boselli
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2023-08-14
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 3031325230

This book provides key critical tools to significantly broaden the readers’ perception of theatre and performance history: in line with posthuman thought, each chapter engages Actor-Network Theory and similar theories to reveal a comprehensive range of human and non-human agents whose collaborations impact theatre productions but are often overlooked. The volume also greatly expands the information available in English on the networks created by several Argentine artists. Through a transnational, transatlantic perspective, case studies refer to the lives, theatre companies, staged productions, and visual artworks of a number of artists who left Buenos Aires during the 1960s due to a mix of personal and political reasons. By establishing themselves in the French capital, queer playwright Copi and directors Jorge Lavelli, Alfredo Arias, and Jérôme Savary, among others, became part of the larger group of intellectuals known as “the Argentines of Paris” and dominated the Parisian theatre scene between the 1980s and 90s. Focusing on these Argentine artists and their nomadic peripeteias, the study thus offers a detailed description of the complexity of agencies and assemblages inextricably involved in theatre productions, including larger historical events, everyday objects, sexual orientation, microbes, and even those agents at work well before a production is conceived.

Performing Statecraft

Performing Statecraft
Author: James R. Ball
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2022-10-20
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1350285188

The crafts of governance and diplomacy are spectacular, theatrical, and performative. Performing Statecraft investigates the performances of states, their leaders, and their citizens on an expanded field of the global arts of statecraft to consider the role of performance in the domestic and international affairs of states, and the interventions into global politics by artists, scholars, and activists. Treating theatre as both an art form and a practice of political actors, this book draws together scholarship on the embodied dimensions of governance, the stagecraft of revolution, arts activism on the world stage, sports performance by heads of state, the performativity of national dress, speechmaking and colonialism, war and medicine, singing diplomats, indigenous sovereignties, and performed nationalisms. It brings the perspective and methods of performance studies to bear on global politics, offering exciting new insights into encounters between states, sovereigns, and people. Whether one is watching a campaign speech, a nightly news broadcast, a sacred dance, or a play about global conflict, these chapters make clear the importance of performance as a tool wielded by amateurs and professionals to articulate the nation in global spaces.

Evita, Inevitably

Evita, Inevitably
Author: Jean Graham-Jones
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2014-10-23
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0472052330

Examines Argentina’s most iconic female figures, from saints to pop singers, politicians to anarchists

Authoritarian Regimes in Latin America

Authoritarian Regimes in Latin America
Author: Paul H. Lewis
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780742537392

This thoughtful text describes how Latin America's authoritarian culture has been and continues to be reflected in a variety of governments, from the near-anarchy of the early regional bosses (caudillos), to all-powerful personalistic dictators or oligarchic machines, to contemporary mass-movement regimes like Castro's Cuba or Peron's Argentina. Taking a student-friendly chronological approach, Paul Lewis also analyzes how the internal dynamics of each historical phase of the region's development led to the next. He describes how dominant ideologies of the period were used to shape, and justify, each regime's power structure. Balanced yet cautious about the future of democracy in the region, this accessible book will be invaluable for courses on contemporary Latin America.

Memory, Transitional Justice, and Theatre in Postdictatorship Argentina

Memory, Transitional Justice, and Theatre in Postdictatorship Argentina
Author: Noe Montez
Publisher: SIU Press
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2018
Genre: History
ISBN: 0809336294

In this work examining Argentine theatre over the past four decades and drawing on contemporary research, Noe Montez considers how theatre can serve as activism and alter public reception to a government addressing human rights violations by its predecessor.

Adapting Translation for the Stage

Adapting Translation for the Stage
Author: Geraldine Brodie
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2017-07-06
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1315436809

Adapting Translation for the Stage presents a sustained dialogue between scholars, actors, directors, writers, and those working across boundaries, exploring common themes encountered when writing, staging, and researching translated works.

Bodies on the Front Lines

Bodies on the Front Lines
Author: Brenda Werth
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 471
Release: 2024
Genre: History
ISBN: 0472056735

Performances as feminist, queer, and trans activism, from theater and flash mobs to street protests and online manifestos