Voicing Dissent : American Artists and the War on Iraq
Voicing Dissent : American Artists and the War on Iraq
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Author(s): Roussel, Violaine
ISBN No.: 9780415654777
Pages: 320
Year: 201207
Format: Trade Paper
Price: $ 34.93
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available

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 Sirand 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" nti-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 Sirand 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"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 Sirand 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".


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