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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Schulman, Sarah, 1958- Stagestruck. Durham : Duke University Press, c1998 (OCoLC)636747578 |
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| Named Person: | Jonathan Larson; Sarah Schulman; Jonathan Larson |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Sarah Schulman |
| ISBN: | 0822321327 9780822321323 0822322641 9780822322641 |
| OCLC Number: | 38853838 |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
| Awards: | Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Book Award (American Library Association), 1999 |
| Description: | 157 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. Rent : the dirt -- 2. Simulacra, authenticity, and the theatrical context of Rent -- 3. Selling AIDS and other consequences of the commodification of homosexuality -- Conclusion : the creation of a fake, public homosexuality |
| Other Titles: | Stage struck |
| Responsibility: | Sarah Schulman. |
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"Sarah Schulman is one of this country's best cultural critics and novelists, and what she has to say in this book needs to be hear." Alexander Doty, author of Making Things Perfectly Queer. Sarah Schulman writes from a highly scorned community whose members are generally cast as anonymous freaks in someone else's play. As Stagestruck makes clear, the titillating history and ideas of those "freaks" are consistently stolen and then corrupted by uptown "art" marketeers out to make a quick buck. But you cannot change the story without changing the moral of the story. "Soul stealing" is punishable in older societies. It is time we caught up." Diamanda Galas, performer and composer. "Utterly engrossing ... startling and scary ... I have never read a more persuasive account - a wonderfully written one, too - of the commodification that has overtaken us, and the disparity of power between the haves and the have nots ... Stagestruck establishes beyond cavil the gross colonisation by yuppie straight America of all that is special about gay life. Sarah Schulman remains what she has been: a rare, fearless teller of unpleasant truths." Martin Duberman, author of In White America and Stonewall. Read more...
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- Larson, Jonathan. -- Rent.
- Musicals -- United States -- History and criticism.
- Homosexuality and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- AIDS (Disease) in literature.
- Schulman, Sarah -- People in trouble
- Larson, Jonathan -- Rent
- Homosexualität
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