UID:
almahu_9948330912202882
Format:
1 online resource (103 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781108785716 (ebook)
Series Statement:
Cambridge elements. Elements in Shakespeare performance, 2516-0117
Content:
This Element examines recent documentaries depicting marginalized youth who are ostensibly redeemed by their encounters with Shakespeare. These films emerge in response to four historical and discursive developments: the rise of reality television and its emphasis on the emotional transformation of the private individual; the concomitant rise of neoliberalism and emotional capitalism, which employ therapeutic discourses to individualize social inequality; the privatization of public education and the rise of so-called "no-excuses" or "new paternalist" charter schools; and the emergence of new modes of address infusing evangelical conversion narratives with a therapeutic self-help ethos.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 25 Mar 2020).
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9781108743167
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108785716
