{"product_id":"restaging-the-future-louise-owen-9780810146051","title":"Restaging the Future: Neoliberalization, Theater, and Performance in Britain","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn examination of neoliberal ideology's ascendance in 1990s and 2000s British politics and society through its effect on state-supported performance practices\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Post-Thatcher, British cultural politics were shaped by the government's use of the arts in service of its own social and economic agenda. \u003ci\u003eRestaging the Future: Neoliberalization, Theater, and Performance in Britain\u003c\/i\u003e interrogates how arts practices and cultural institutions were enmeshed with the particular processes of neoliberalization mobilized at the end of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Louise Owen traces the uneasy entanglement of performance with neoliberalism's marketization of social life. Focusing on this political moment, Owen guides readers through a wide range of performance works crossing multiple forms, genres, and spaces--from European dance tours, to Brazilian favelas, to the streets of Liverpool--attending to their distinct implications for the reenvisioned future in whose wake we now live. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Analyzing this array of participatory dance, film, music, public art, and theater projects, Owen uncovers unexpected affinities between community-based, experimental, and avant-garde movements. \u003ci\u003eRestaging the Future \u003c\/i\u003eprovides key historical context for these performances, their negotiations of their political moment, and their themes of insecurity, identity, and inequality, created in a period of profound ideological and socioeconomic change.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Louise Owen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0810146053\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780810146051\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Northwestern University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/15\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Louise Owen","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44080644456703,"sku":"9780810146051","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fd5cf8c8-e53f-42af-bbc6-0faa4c06e80e.jpg?v=1685487977","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/restaging-the-future-louise-owen-9780810146051","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}