Fck The Army by Lindsay Goss Paperback Book

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Reveals the theatrical dimensions of civilian support for the revolutionary GI Movement of the 1960s70sPerformance played a role both crucial and complicated in the antiwar activism of the 1960s and 1970s. As soldiers and civilian actors activists and celebrities worked together to end the Vietnam War their theatrical acts of solidarity and resistance connected liberation struggles across the lines of race gender enlisted status and nationality.Fck The Army offers the first fully narrated history of the FTA an antiwar variety show featuring Jane Fonda that played to tens of thousands of activeduty troops over the course of nine months in 1971. From its very conception the civilianled show was directed towards the project of making visible the growing antiwar movement organized by GIs inspired by but also acting as a rebuttal to the increasingly outoftouch USO tours presented by Bob Hope. Through an analysis of the FTAs tactical performances of solidarity and resistance Lindsay Goss brings into view the theatrical dimensions of the GI movement itself revealing it as representative of the revolutionary and theatrical politics and tactics of the period. The volume highlights how due to the movements subsequent historical erasure a renewed antitheatricality emerged from the 1960s and became a potent feature of contemporary political discourse.The authors deft methodological and analytic strategies in tandem with her elegantly accessible style demonstrate how seemingly littleknown performance practices can activate consequential understandings of what we thought we knew about the recent past. At the same time she encourages essential conversations about pressing contemporary issues that demand our attention. At its core Fck The Army reveals the fundamentally theatrical character of radical activism when it seeks to challenge the status quo.
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  • Category: Society & Politics
  • Format: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Publication Date: 2024-06-18
  • Publisher / Label: New York University
  • Author: Lindsay Goss
  • Fruugo ID: 310240323-693956913
  • ISBN: 9781479821846

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