Violaine Roussel, Bleuwenn Lechaux

Voicing Dissent (eBook, PDF)

American Artists and the War on Iraq

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Voicing Dissent presents a unique and original series of interviews with American artists (including Guerrilla Girls on Tour, Tony Shalhoub, Shepard Fairey, Sean Astin, and many others) who have voiced their opposition to the war in Iraq. Following Pierre Bourdieu's example, these discussions are approached sociologically and provide a thorough analysis of the relationships between arts and politics as well as the limits and conditions of political speech and action. These painters and graphic artists, musicians, actors, playwrights, theatre directors and filmmakers reveal their perceptions of politics, war, security and terrorism issues, the Middle East, their experiences with activism, as well as their definition of the artist's role and their practice of citizenship. Addressing the crucial questions for contemporary democracies - such as artists' function in society, the crisis of political legitimacy and representation, the rise of new modes of contestation, and the limits to free public speech - this book will be of interest to scholars in sociology, politics, and the arts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135192389
• Artikelnr.: 43821381

Autorenporträt

Violaine Roussel is a sociologist and professor of Political Science at the University of Paris VIII and currently a visiting scholar in the Department of Sociology at UCLA.

Bleuwenn Lechaux is currently completing a PhD in political science at the University of Rennes on a comparative analysis of the involvement of theatre artists for social and political causes in Paris and New York since the 1970s.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Michèle Lamont. Preface Steve Greenfield and Guy Osborn.
Introduction Section 1: Figures of Committed Artists 1. Models and Public
Voices in the Anti-War Movement 1.1. Robbie Conal: Figure of the
Activist-Artist 1.2. Mike Farrell and Robert Greenwald: Leaders of the
Hollywood Movement 1.3. Ozomatli: Not to "Separate Ourselves from the
Movement" 1.4. Kathleen Chalfant: Combining Radicalism with Establishment
2. Generations and Relations to Politics 2.1. Sheila Pinkel:
Activist-Artist in a Dark Time 2.2. Margo Lee Sherman: Bread and Puppet's
Legacy 2.3. Ed Asner: Ambivalence of a Leftist Identification 2.4. Cynthia
Croot: Temporally Rooted Devotion 2.5. Emek: Politicization as an Artistic
Innovation 3. Identities, Communities and Anti-War Activism 3.1. Tony
Shalhoub and Amitis Motevalli: Confronting Middle-Eastern Perspectives 3.2.
Dread Scott: Use of Multilayered Identifications 3.3. Alexandra Paul:
Strategic Identities in the Service of a Cause 3.4. Guerilla Girls On Tour:
Women and Anti-War Activism Section 2: Artistic Professions and Politics
4. Costs and Paradoxes of Engaged Art 4.1. Lida Abdullah and Susan Silton:
Threats on the Visual Arts 4.2. David Clennon: The Price of Political
Commitment in Hollywood 4.3. Fredwreck: The Rules of the Music Industry
4.4. Sophia Skiles: Professional Ambivalences of Political Commitment 4.5.
Mear-One: Paradoxes of Politicization 5. Shaping a Political Intention in
the Form of Art: From Tension to Affinity 5.1. Focus 1: Around Day Zero:
The "Political Fiction Film", An Impossible Genre? Interviews with Bryan
Gunnar Cole (director), Robert Malkany(scriptwriter), Jon Bernthal (actor)
and Anthony Moody (producer) 5.2. Focus 2: Around Living Theatre's Plays
The Brig, No Sir and A Day in the Life of the City: Uses and Constraints of
Street Theatre Plays. Interviews with Actors from the Living Theatre (Jerry
Goralnick and Garry Brackett) 5.3. Shepard Fairey: Changing Clients into
Publics 6. Hollywood and the War: Celebrities versus Politicians? 6.1. Paul
Haggis: Leading by Example 6.2. Bradley Whitford: The Dynamics of The West
Wing 6.3. Sean Astin: Hollywood, Politics and Power 6.4. Peter Coyote:
Engagement versus Activism 6.5. Kimberly Pierce: The Strength of "Cultural
Power"