Moira finucane biography of barack obama

  • My walking podcast yesterday was ABC's (of the Australian flavour) Big Ideas and the Art of Provocation - an interview with Moira Finucane about her thought.
  • The show promises a return to the subversive burlesque of yore - made famous by artists such as Mae West and Gypsy Rose Lee. Created by Finucane - a self-.
  • US President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, have met on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Mexico to discuss the.

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    Posted onJanuary 25, byKay

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    Just two quotes this time.

    On importance of art as agent of change through imagination:

    For art to be important to me it has to have what I call cultural agency, it has to be able to create cultural heat, it has to be able to change culture and change lives …and I believe that it can. Not all of it but the best of it. And I think that if you think back on an image or a painting, or a film, or a song that made you think yes that’s right, that’s what love feels like […] I remember reading when president Obama was voted in, I remember listening to an interview with a woman who is a black woman who is the head of department, or very high up in the law department at Harvard so she is no slouch. And she said that she didn’t support Obama, she supported Hilary, because she couldn’t imagine that America was ready to vote in the black president and imagination is an incredibly potent force and that’s where I think that art is useful.”

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    The Contemporary American Monologue: Performance and Politics , , ,

    Table of contents :
    Title Page
    Copyright Page
    Contents
    List of Illustrations
    Acknowledgements
    Foreword
    Introduction
    Performance
    Overview
    Chapter 1 Monologue in Western Drama
    Forerunner monologues
    Soliloquy and selfhood
    Monologue and modern identity
    Two key trajectories
    Chapter 2 Monologue in American Performance
    US oratory and performance
    Anti-mainstream American voices
    Chapter 3 Confessional Monologue and the Legacy of Spalding Gray
    Swimming to Cambodia
    Persona and politics
    Morning, Noon and Night
    Chapter 4 Post-punk Monologue and the Performances of Laurie Anderson
    Home of the Brave
    Empty Places
    Chapter 5 Rights Monologue and the Work of Anna Deavere Smith
    Twilight: Los Angeles,
    Documentary monologue
    Chapter 6 Radical Monologue and the Performances of Karen Finley
    Fragmented persona
    Make Love
    The state of Middle America
    The Passion of Terri Schiavo
    The vegetative state
    Chapter 7 Future Monologue
    Monologue and the postdramatic
    A postpolitical present
    Future forms
    Notes
    Introduction
    Chapter 1
    Chapter 2
    Chapter 3
    Chapter 4
    Chapter 5
    Chapter 6
    Chapter 7
    Bibliography
    Production sources
    About the Author
    Index

    Citation preview

    The Contemporary American Monologue

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