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Performing Consumers: Global Capital and its Theatrical Seductions

Autor Maurya Wickstrom
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 mai 2006
Performing Consumers is an exploration of the way in which brands insinuate themselves into the lives of ordinary people who encounter them at branded superstores.
Looking at our performative desire to ‘try on’ otherness, Maurya Wickstrom employs five American brandscapes to serve as case studies: Ralph Lauren; Niketown; American Girl Place; Disney store and The Lion King; and The Forum Shops at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas. In this post-product era, each builds for the performer/consumer an intensely pleasurable, somatic experience of merging into the brand and reappearing as the brand, or the brand’s fictional meanings.
To understand this embodiment as the way that capital is producing subjectivity as an aspect of itself, Wickstrom casts a wide net, drawing on:
  • the history of capital’s relationship with theatre
  • political developments in the United States
  • recent work in political science, philosophy, and performance studies.
An adventurous study of theatrical indeterminancy and material culture, Performing Consumers brilliantly takes corporate culture to task.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780415339452
ISBN-10: 0415339456
Pagini: 182
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Introduction 1 On the move at Niketown and Ralph Lauren 2 Robots, gods and greed: the theatrum mundi in the Forum Shops at Caesar’s Palace 3 The Lion King, mimesis, and Disney’s magical capitalism 4 Making Americans: the American Girl Doll and American Girl Place Epilogue

Notă biografică

Maurya Wickstrom is Assistant Professor of Drama at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York. Her work has appeared in leading journals, including Modern Drama and Theatre Journal, and in a new anthology on Disney.

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An adventurous study of theatrical indeterminacy and material culture, Performing Consumers brilliantly explores the way in which brands insinuate themselves into the lives of their consumers, using case studies from Ralph Lauren to Niketown.