David Savran
Biographic Data
| ID | 1142486 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Savran |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Savran |
| SIGNATURE | SAVRAN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | David Savran is a specialist in 20th- and 21st-century American theatre, popular culture, and social theory. He is the author of eight books, most recently, Highbrow/Lowdown: Theater, Jazz, and the Making of the New Middle Class (University of Michigan Press, 2009), the winner of the 2010 Joe A. Callaway Book Prize. He has served as a judge for the Obie Awards and the Lucille Lortel Awards. He is the editor of the Journal of American Drama and Theatre, is Distinguished Professor of Theatre, and holds the... |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 110 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Sh*tstorm over a Shitstorm
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the 'Save PDF' action button
The World According to Herbert Fritsch
With his reinvention of absurd farce, Herbert Fritsch has become one of the most celebrated directors in the German-speaking world. Most remarkable are Fritsch’s original pieces, which he also designs, composed in collaboration with actors and musicians. These defy generic categorization and allow audiences to rethink what is possible to see and hear onstage
A Strange Loop by Michael R. Jackson
You've got that thing
Critics have long noted the association between the Broadway musical and gay men as both producers and consumers. But rather than claim that musicals are gay, lesbian, or queer, this essay analyzes the circulation of desire in the work of two composer-lyricists, Cole Porter and Stephen Sondheim, by focusing on their mastery of the list or catalog song, a form that requires only that its lyric contains an inventory of people, places, or things. Th…
Liberté, Fraternité, Corbusier
Under the artistic direction of Alex Timbers, Les Freres Corbusier has carved out a niche for itself as a purveyor of an anarchic, hyper-literate variety of what Timbers calls post-ironic theatre, an “aggressively visceral theatre combining historical revisionism, multimedia excess, found texts, sophomoric humor, and rigorous academic research.”
Let Our Freak Flags Fly
Let Our Freak Flags Fly': Shrek the Musical and the Branding of Diversity" argues that DreamWorks used Shrek the Musical to exploit a generic theme of multiculturalism to extend the reach of the Shrek franchise and challenge Disney's domination of the Broadway market. By bringing a political-economic analysis to bear on the study of commercial theatre, the essay shows that DreamWorks's marketing strategy-diversification-provided the theme-diversi…
Concerning Theory for Performance Studies
In 2007, Routledge published Theory for Performance Studies as part of its Theory 4 series, listing Philip Auslander as author. When, in August, The Chronicle of Higher Education revealed that much of the book was lifted word-for-word from the template for the series, Theory for Religious Studies by Timothy K. Beal and William E. Deal, TDR editor Richard Schechner convened via email and phone conversations a “TDR Forum,” asking leaders in the fie…
Critical Theory and Performance
Books
March 01 2006 Professing Performance: Theatre in the Academy from Philology to Performativity Professing Performance: Theatre in the Academy from Philology to Performativity. JacksonShannon. David Savran David Savran Vera Mowry Roberts Distinguished Professor of American Theatre at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information David Savran Vera M…
The Search for America's Soul
During the 1920s jazz was by far the most important and controversial form of cultural production in the United States. It was also decisive in separating an emergent literary theatre, which disdained jazz for its alleged social and moral depravity, and musical comedy and vaudeville, which not only embraced jazz but became crucial arenas for its development and dissemination. By analyzing early Gershwin musicals, this essay argues that musical co…
The Death of the Avantgarde
Despite the disappearance of the historical avantgarde before WWII, both scholars and the popular press are reluctant to relinquish the belief in a radical, American, theatrical avantgarde. No other artists epitomize this avantgarde more than the Wooster Group, which, in its 30 years of work, has gradually become recognized as the emblematic avantgarde company. But was the avantgarde that developed in the 1970s ever really an avantgarde at all
A Queer Sort of Materialism
The Masculinity Studies Reader (Key Works in Cultural Studies)
Taking It Like a Man
From the Beat poets' incarnation of the "white Negro" through Iron John and the Men's Movement to the paranoid masculinity of Timothy McVeigh, white men in this country have increasingly imagined themselves as victims. In Taking It Like a Man , David Savran explores the social and sexual tensions that have helped to produce this phenomenon. Beginning with the 1940s, when many white, middle-class men moved into a rule-bound, corporate culture, Sav…
The Sadomasochist in the Closet
Research Article| July 01 1996 The Sadomasochist in the Closet: White Masculinity and the Culture of Victimization David Savran David Savran david savran is Professor of English at Brown University and the author of Communists, Cowboys, and Queers: The Politics of Masculinity in the Work of Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams (U of Minnesota P, 1992). This essay is extracted from Taking It Like a Man: White Masculinity, Masochism, and U.S. Cultu…
Ambivalence, Utopia, and a Queer Sort of Materialism
Critics, pundits, and producers have placed Tony Kushner's Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes in the unenviable position of having to rescue the American theatre. The latter, by all accounts, is in a sorry state. It has attempted to maintain its elite cultural status despite the fact that the differences between high and low have become precarious. On Broadway, increasingly expensive productions survive more and more by mimickin…
Acting Gay
Acting Gay
Whistling in the Dark
Communists, Cowboys, and Queers
David Rabe
In Their Own Words
The Wooster Group, 1975-1985
"The Wooster Group, Arthur Miller and "The Crucible
Sam Shepard's Conceptual Prison
Sam Shepard has been widely hailed as the leading American playwright of his generation. His plays have enjoyed multiple publications and productions in New York, regional theatres, and countless universities. Despite the widespread acclaim and the quantity of material that has been published on Shepard's work, critics often admit difficulty in writing on his plays. Richard Gilman's note that many of them are extraordinarily resistant to thematic…
Critical Theory and Performance
The Masculinity Studies Reader (Key Works in Cultural Studies)
Ambivalence, Utopia, and a Queer Sort of Materialism
Critics, pundits, and producers have placed Tony Kushner's Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes in the unenviable position of having to rescue the American theatre. The latter, by all accounts, is in a sorry state. It has attempted to maintain its elite cultural status despite the fact that the differences between high and low have become precarious. On Broadway, increasingly expensive productions survive more and more by mimickin…
The Sadomasochist in the Closet
Research Article| July 01 1996 The Sadomasochist in the Closet: White Masculinity and the Culture of Victimization David Savran David Savran david savran is Professor of English at Brown University and the author of Communists, Cowboys, and Queers: The Politics of Masculinity in the Work of Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams (U of Minnesota P, 1992). This essay is extracted from Taking It Like a Man: White Masculinity, Masochism, and U.S. Cultu…
Let Our Freak Flags Fly
Let Our Freak Flags Fly': Shrek the Musical and the Branding of Diversity" argues that DreamWorks used Shrek the Musical to exploit a generic theme of multiculturalism to extend the reach of the Shrek franchise and challenge Disney's domination of the Broadway market. By bringing a political-economic analysis to bear on the study of commercial theatre, the essay shows that DreamWorks's marketing strategy-diversification-provided the theme-diversi…
You've got that thing
Critics have long noted the association between the Broadway musical and gay men as both producers and consumers. But rather than claim that musicals are gay, lesbian, or queer, this essay analyzes the circulation of desire in the work of two composer-lyricists, Cole Porter and Stephen Sondheim, by focusing on their mastery of the list or catalog song, a form that requires only that its lyric contains an inventory of people, places, or things. Th…
Acting Gay
The Wooster Group, 1975-1985
The Dolls of Bunraku
The Girardian Economy of Desire
In the last chapter of The Rise and Fall of the Well-Made Play John Russell Taylor notes that the Pinter play (although he singles out The Birthday Party he could as well be referring to Old Times) is essentially a drawing-room drama complete in every detail, ... except that the exposition is left out altogether .. He then goes on to observe how the similarity breaks down, that is the process that interests Pinter, the series of happenings, and n…
Sam Shepard's Conceptual Prison
Sam Shepard has been widely hailed as the leading American playwright of his generation. His plays have enjoyed multiple publications and productions in New York, regional theatres, and countless universities. Despite the widespread acclaim and the quantity of material that has been published on Shepard's work, critics often admit difficulty in writing on his plays. Richard Gilman's note that many of them are extraordinarily resistant to thematic…
"The Wooster Group, Arthur Miller and "The Crucible
The Wooster Group, 1975-1985
In Their Own Words
David Rabe
Whistling in the Dark
Communists, Cowboys, and Queers
Acting Gay
Ambivalence, Utopia, and a Queer Sort of Materialism
Critics, pundits, and producers have placed Tony Kushner's Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes in the unenviable position of having to rescue the American theatre. The latter, by all accounts, is in a sorry state. It has attempted to maintain its elite cultural status despite the fact that the differences between high and low have become precarious. On Broadway, increasingly expensive productions survive more and more by mimickin…
Acting Gay
The Sadomasochist in the Closet
Research Article| July 01 1996 The Sadomasochist in the Closet: White Masculinity and the Culture of Victimization David Savran David Savran david savran is Professor of English at Brown University and the author of Communists, Cowboys, and Queers: The Politics of Masculinity in the Work of Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams (U of Minnesota P, 1992). This essay is extracted from Taking It Like a Man: White Masculinity, Masochism, and U.S. Cultu…
Taking It Like a Man
From the Beat poets' incarnation of the "white Negro" through Iron John and the Men's Movement to the paranoid masculinity of Timothy McVeigh, white men in this country have increasingly imagined themselves as victims. In Taking It Like a Man , David Savran explores the social and sexual tensions that have helped to produce this phenomenon. Beginning with the 1940s, when many white, middle-class men moved into a rule-bound, corporate culture, Sav…
The Masculinity Studies Reader (Key Works in Cultural Studies)
A Queer Sort of Materialism
The Death of the Avantgarde
Despite the disappearance of the historical avantgarde before WWII, both scholars and the popular press are reluctant to relinquish the belief in a radical, American, theatrical avantgarde. No other artists epitomize this avantgarde more than the Wooster Group, which, in its 30 years of work, has gradually become recognized as the emblematic avantgarde company. But was the avantgarde that developed in the 1970s ever really an avantgarde at all
Books
March 01 2006 Professing Performance: Theatre in the Academy from Philology to Performativity Professing Performance: Theatre in the Academy from Philology to Performativity. JacksonShannon. David Savran David Savran Vera Mowry Roberts Distinguished Professor of American Theatre at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information David Savran Vera M…
The Search for America's Soul
During the 1920s jazz was by far the most important and controversial form of cultural production in the United States. It was also decisive in separating an emergent literary theatre, which disdained jazz for its alleged social and moral depravity, and musical comedy and vaudeville, which not only embraced jazz but became crucial arenas for its development and dissemination. By analyzing early Gershwin musicals, this essay argues that musical co…
Critical Theory and Performance
Concerning Theory for Performance Studies
In 2007, Routledge published Theory for Performance Studies as part of its Theory 4 series, listing Philip Auslander as author. When, in August, The Chronicle of Higher Education revealed that much of the book was lifted word-for-word from the template for the series, Theory for Religious Studies by Timothy K. Beal and William E. Deal, TDR editor Richard Schechner convened via email and phone conversations a “TDR Forum,” asking leaders in the fie…
Liberté, Fraternité, Corbusier
Under the artistic direction of Alex Timbers, Les Freres Corbusier has carved out a niche for itself as a purveyor of an anarchic, hyper-literate variety of what Timbers calls post-ironic theatre, an “aggressively visceral theatre combining historical revisionism, multimedia excess, found texts, sophomoric humor, and rigorous academic research.”
Let Our Freak Flags Fly
Let Our Freak Flags Fly': Shrek the Musical and the Branding of Diversity" argues that DreamWorks used Shrek the Musical to exploit a generic theme of multiculturalism to extend the reach of the Shrek franchise and challenge Disney's domination of the Broadway market. By bringing a political-economic analysis to bear on the study of commercial theatre, the essay shows that DreamWorks's marketing strategy-diversification-provided the theme-diversi…
You've got that thing
Critics have long noted the association between the Broadway musical and gay men as both producers and consumers. But rather than claim that musicals are gay, lesbian, or queer, this essay analyzes the circulation of desire in the work of two composer-lyricists, Cole Porter and Stephen Sondheim, by focusing on their mastery of the list or catalog song, a form that requires only that its lyric contains an inventory of people, places, or things. Th…
A Strange Loop by Michael R. Jackson
Art (19 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Theatre and Performance Studies (9 works) · Aesthetics (8 works) · Theater, Performance, and Music History (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · History (7 works) · Literature (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Art history (6 works)