Disaster Capitalism
Or Money Can't Buy You Love - Three Plays
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 2011
306 pages
978-1-84150-578-7 (ISBN)
Description
Disaster capitalism is an increasingly popular critical paradigm for contextualizing and understanding life in the twenty-first century. This book includes three full-length plays by award-winning dramatist Rick Mitchell: Shadow Anthropology, a dark comedy about the US occupation of Afghanistan; Through the Roof, a Faustian trip through the social history of natural disaster in New Orleans; and Celestial Flesh, a sacrilegious romp through the 1980s sanctuary movement. Placing the plays in historical and thematic context, the author introduces the collection with an essay examining catastrophe, capitalism, and what he calls "Apocalypse Theater for the Twenty-First Century."
Reviews / Votes
'Funny! Provocative! Stunningly poignant! Rick Mitchell is a great American playwright.' * Edward James Olmos *More details
Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
Bristol
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Intellect
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-84150-578-7 (9781841505787)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
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Book
10/2011
Intellect Books
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Person
Rick Mitchell is an award-winning dramatist of over twenty plays, Rick Mitchell teaches playwriting, performance studies and literature at California State University, Northridge, where he is professor of English.
Content
Introduction
Catastrophe everywhere: Apocalypse theater for the twenty-first century
The plays
Shadow Anthropology
Through the Roof
Celestial Flesh
Catastrophe everywhere: Apocalypse theater for the twenty-first century
The plays
Shadow Anthropology
Through the Roof
Celestial Flesh
