Mason Provocation in Popular Culture

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-1-317-52797-8
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 246 Seiten

Provocation in Popular Culture is a study of provocative artists who use comedy and playfulness to subvert. Bim Mason draws on his decades of practice as a performer, director and teacher in the fields of street theatre and circus to inform his analysis of the work of key artists Leo Bassi, Sacha Baron Cohen, Banksy, Archaos, Pussy Riot and others. Unlike political provocateurs who are serious and confrontational these cultural provocateurs attract and animate the wider public with a lighter tone that takes an otherwise antagonistic relationship into a more creative, populist space. Mason also shows how the provocative model can be applied to teaching and creative practice, working with individuals and improvisational methods.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mason, Bim

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Tanz Andere Darstellende Künste
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1. Introduction 1. Solo Street Shows 2. Phillippe Petit 3. The Winner Effect 4. Theories, Terms and Questions 5. The Artists 6. Structure of Book Part 2. Stasis and Chaos 7. Structure and Improvisation 8. Choral Work 9. The fulcrum analogy 10. Leo Bassi - Clown Activist 11. Personal risk, popularity and power 12. Power Negotiations in the Big Brother intervention 13. Centres and their reaction to Revelacion 14. Ambivalence and the Bassibus 15. Conclusion Part 3. On the Edge of Chaos 16. The bigheads 17. The blade analogy 18. Sacha Baron Cohen - The Joker 19. Borat at the Rodeo 20. Centres under interrogation 21. Play and Ethical Fluidity 22. Conclusion Part 4. Order out of Chaos 23. An incident in Exeter 24. Entity and environment - the border analogy 25. Banksy - The Outlaw 26. The invisible man 27. Banksy and the Tesco Riots 28. The border of acceptibility 29. Conclusion 30. Comparing the artists 31. Questions re-visited 32. Drawing together the analogies Part 5. Provocateurs Provoked 33. Contest or Collusion 34. Circus Complexity 35. Neo-burlesque 36. Pussy Riot

Über Autor(innen)

Bim Mason is the Artistic Director and co-founder of Circomedia. Since 1978 he has worked in street theatre, masks, bouffon, clown and circus as performer, designer, teacher and award-winning director. Published works include chapters on Lecoq, circus, popular theatre and Street Theatre: And other outdoor performance (Routledge, 1992).