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Against Interpretation
Artist/Author: Susan Sontag | Reference: P4281 | ISBN: 0-099-38731-X | Type: Publication

Against Interpretation is a selection from Susan Sontag’s early writings about the arts and contemporary culture. The book quickly became a modern classic and has had enormous influence here and abroad. As well as the title essay, ‘On Style”, and the famous ‘Notes on Camp’, the book includes discussions from such figures as Sartre, Simone Weil, Georg Lukács, Lévi-Strauss, Artaud, Genet, Brecht, Beckett, Bresson and Godard.

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Re Wild(e)ing Queer Performance
Artist/Author: Fintan Walsh | Editor: David Calder, Broderick Chow, Maria M. Delgado, Maggie B. Gale, Bryce Lease, Cariad Svich, Sarah Thomasson | Reference: A0906 | Type: Article

Contemporary Theatre Review Volume 31 Issue Number 3 August 2021

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Cruising the Dead River: David Wojnarowicz and New York's Ruined Waterfront
Artist/Author: Fiona Anderson | Reference: P4086 | ISBN: 9780226603759 | Type: Publication

Draws on Wojnarowicz’s work to explore the role of abandoned landscape in this explosion of queer culture in NYC.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).

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Performance Lab: Ron Athey at Stanford University
Artist/Author: Lisa Newman | Reference: A0687 | Type: Article

Review of Athey’s Messianic Remains at the Performance studies International symposium.

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The Theatre of Protest and Paradox-Development in the Avant-Garde Drama
Artist/Author: Gerge E. Wellwarth | Reference: P1053 | Type: Publication

Analyses the dramatic works of modern German, American, English, French, and Spanish writers within their historical and cultural contexts.

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