Unmarked: The Politics of Performance - Tapa dura

Feminist film theory has made the psychic and political limitations of representational visibility clear. Yet the Left continues to promote visibility politics as a crucial aspect of progressive struggle. "Unmarked" is a controversial study of the politics of performance, examining the fraught relationship between political and representational visibility and invisibility within both mainstream and avant-garde art. Suggesting that there may be some political power in an active disappearance from the visual field, Phelan looks carefully at examples of such absences in various visual mediums, including photography, film, theatre, the iconography of anti-abortion demonstrations and performance art. "Unmarked" should interest feminist theorists, Leftist intellectuals and activists, performance theorists, contemporary art critics and cultural studies students.