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Author:   Daniel Sack
Publisher:   The University of Michigan Press
Imprint:   The University of Michigan Press
ISBN:  

9780472076901

ISBN 10:   0472076906
Pages:   214
Publication Date:   31 July 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 1. Learning How to Cry 2. On the Nature of Tears: A Semi-Fictional Dialogue 3. I’m Too Sad to Tell You: On the Private Language of Tears I. Bas Jan Ader’s I’m Too Sad to Tell You II. Wu Tsang’s The Shape of a Right Statement III. Ann Buchanan’s Girl Who Cries a Tear 4. Learning How to Cry (Again): Or, How Actors Keep Feeling the Past I. Crying Men (Crying Actors) II. The Paradox of the (Weeping) Actor III. Bullying the Actor (the Actor Bullying) 5. The Weeper’s Toolbox: An Incomplete Catalog of Prosthetics, Props, and Prompts I. Prosthetics II. Props III. Prompts 6. On Getting Water from a Stone: Or, Do Androids Weep Electric Tears? I. Hol(e)y Statues II. The Drowned Puppet III. Robots in the Rain 7. Teaching How to Cry Bibliography

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"""In this beautifully conceived study of the performative life of tears, Daniel Sack invites us to consider how crying operates as 'an offering of oneself in relation to another.' With a diverse set of essays that include a restaged conversation between the author and his biochemist father, a reconsideration of conceptual artists who use tears to provoke reconsiderations of the public and private self, and an exploration of theatrical props and devices used to symbolize or provoke crying, Sack compels us to dwell with him at the limits of affect, empathy, and performance itself. This is a wonderful book, moving in its invocations and astute in its tear-soaked provocations.""--Patrick Anderson, University of California San Diego ""Cue Tears is a rich and movingly autobiographical meditation on weeping in theater, performance art, and academia. Daniel Sack's finely wrought essays investigate how the spectacle of weeping dissolves many of our presumed distinctions--real/staged, authentic/artificial, willed/involuntary, private/public--inherited from traditional discourses of sentiment.""--Andrew Sofer, Boston College ""Most of the world's languages refer to tears as plural, even when they are streaming in a single current down the cheeks. Daniel Sack organizes Cue Tears around that philological fact: each of the seven compact chapters drops as a separate essay in the shape of a tear, but they all flow together in the end. Exceptionally good--clear, cogent, often evocative, and sometimes just stunning.""--Joseph Roach, Yale University"

Author Information

Daniel Sack is Professor in the Department of English and the Commonwealth Honors College at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His other books include After Live: Possibility, Potentiality, and the Future of Performance and Imagined Theatres: Writing for a Theoretical Stage.

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