Theater and Performance: New Titles http://www.press.umich.edu/rss/newTheater.xml New Theater and Performance Books en-us ump.webmaster@umich.edu The President Electric: Ronald Reagan and the Politics of Performance | by Timothy Raphael http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=331702 How Reagan's immersion in an electronic media culture of performance shaped his political career Changing the Subject: Marvin Carlson and Theatre Studies 1959-2009 | Edited and with an Introduction by Joseph Roach http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=364059 Leading theater scholars on the major developments in their field over the past 50 years. Performing Conquest: Five Centuries of Theater, History, and Identity in Tlaxcala, Mexico | by Patricia A. Ybarra http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=316831 An unprecedented reading of Mexican history through the lens of performance. The Cultural Politics of Slam Poetry: Race, Identity, and the Performance of Popular Verse in America | by Susan B. A. Somers-Willett http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=322627 How do slam poets and their audiences reflect the politics of difference? Highbrow/Lowdown : Theater, Jazz, and the Making of the New Middle Class | by David Savran http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=338819 The culture clash that permanently changed American theater. Reflections on Beckett: A Centenary Celebration | Anna McMullan and S. E. Wilmer, Editors http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=304324 Renowned international scholars offer perspectives on one of the world's most challenging playwrights. Ethnic Drag: Performing Race, Nation, Sexuality in West Germany | by Katrin Sieg http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=17012 An exploration of the West German attempt to repress and refashion concepts of "race" after the Holocaust. Stone Tower: The Political Theater of Arthur Miller | by Jeffrey D. Mason http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=309730 A revealing look at Arthur Miller's political sensibilities as evidenced in his dramatic works and other writings. Stages of Conflict: A Critical Anthology of Latin American Theater and Performance | edited by Diana Taylor and Sarah J. Townsend http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=230876 This fascinating anthology reveals the rich performance history of Latin America from the sixteenth century to the present. Suzan-Lori Parks | by Deborah R. Geis http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=187338 An accessible guide to the inventive language and experimental stagings of playwright Suzan-Lori Parks . Avant-Garde Performance and the Limits of Criticism: Approaching the Living Theatre, Happenings/Fluxus, and the Black Arts Movement | by Mike Sell http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=337666 Explores the dynamic interactions of performance, politics, and literary criticism in three U.S countercultures in the 1950s and 60s. Concerto for the Left Hand: Disability and the Defamiliar Body | by Michael Davidson http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=286540 A major new work that probes questions of disability and aesthetics across a range of art forms, from Deaf poetry to film noir. Reframing Screen Performance | by Cynthia Baron and Sharon Marie Carnicke http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=104480 Challenges conventional approaches to film by advancing the simple yet revolutionary idea that acting is one of cinema's essential aspects. Footpaths and Bridges: Voices from the Native American Women Playwrights Archive | edited by Shirley A. Huston-Findley and Rebecca Howard http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=105202 The first anthology to showcase the rich and diverse dramatic work of Native American women. Edward Albee | edited by Toby Zinman http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=142871 A theater-lover's guide to the dramatic works of one of America's most important living playwrights.