Overview
Based on her award-winning blog, The Feminist Spectator, Jill Dolan presents a lively feminist perspective in reviews and essays on a variety of theatre productions, films and television series—from The Social Network and Homeland to Split Britches' Lost Lounge. Demonstrating the importance of critiquing mainstream culture through a feminist lens, Dolan also offers invaluable advice on how to develop feminist critical thinking and writing skills. This is an essential read for budding critics and any avid spectator of the stage and screen.
Full Product Details
Author: Professor Jill S. Dolan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint: Red Globe Press
Dimensions:
Width: 13.80cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.431kg
ISBN: 9781137032904
ISBN 10: 1137032901
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 21 June 2013
Audience:
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College/higher education
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General
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
This is a wonderful book, especially for the undergraduate classroom. It is great to see this fresh look at contemporary theatre and film, and Dolan's tone and prose throughout is engaging and lucid. Her skills as a critical spectator are much needed and her book both exemplifies these talents and instructs others explicitly to cultivate them. - Peggy Phelan, The Ann O'Day Maples Professor of the Arts, and Professor in Drama and English, Stanford University, USA The first book-length treatise on feminist spectatorship to include both an anthology of reviews and a practical 'how-to' manual for students, would-be writers, and art enthusiasts, The Feminist Spectator in Action attends to an urgent, if chronic, issue in the cinematic and performing arts: the entrenched lack of gender parity. - Sara Warner, Associate Professor, Cornell University, USA
Dolan uses both this text and her award-winning blog to address 'the paucity of feminist perspectives in the popular press', and she advocates the usefulness of a feminist critical paradigm in critiquing productions. As examples for the text, she analyzes works like Mamma Mia, Nurse Jackie, The Hunger Games, Brave, Porgy and Bess, and Come Back, Little Sheba. The book concludes with a how-to-guide for using a feminist perspective to analyze media outlets. Recommended. - Choice This is a wonderful book, especially for the undergraduate classroom. It is great to see this fresh look at contemporary theatre and film, and Dolan's tone and prose throughout is engaging and lucid. Her skills as a critical spectator are much needed and her book both exemplifies these talents and instructs others explicitly to cultivate them. - Peggy Phelan, The Ann O'Day Maples Professor of the Arts, and Professor in Drama and English, Stanford University, USA The first book-length treatise on feminist spectatorship to include both an anthology of reviews and a practical 'how-to' manual for students, would-be writers, and art enthusiasts, The Feminist Spectator in Action attends to an urgent, if chronic, issue in the cinematic and performing arts: the entrenched lack of gender parity. - Sara Warner, Associate Professor, Cornell University, USA An astute intervention in popular criticism. In this stylistically and rhetorically appealing piece of writing...Dolan offers a DIY manual that can be of help to aspiring critics and young academics. - Journal of Contemporary Drama in English
The Feminist Spectator is certainly a reader-friendly text … The Feminist Spectator will make an engaging addition to any feminist classroom or scholarly bookshelf. Reminding us of feminist hope–both in theory and practice–this book is a call to action, as well as a touchstone, for twenty-first-century feminist teachers and learners. * Corey Hickner-Johnson, Feminist Teacher, Vol. 26 (2-3) *
Author Information
Jill Dolan is Annan Professor in English and Professor of Theatre at Princeton University, USA, where she is also Director of its programme in Gender and Sexuality Studies. She is the author of Utopia in Performance: Finding Hope at the Theatre and The Feminist Spectator as Critic, among other books. She writes The Feminist Spectator blog at www.feministspectator.blogspot.com.
