Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. is Professor and Chair of Theatre Arts at Loyola Marymount University, USA. He is the author and editor of a number of books, including Athenian Sun in an African Sky: Modern African Adaptations of Classical Greek Tragedy, Black Medea: Adaptation in Modern Plays, Suzan-Lori Parks: A Casebook, and Portrayals of Americans on the World Stage: Critical Essays. His work on African theatre and cinema has appeared in such anthologies and journals as Performative Inter-Actions in African Theatre Volume 2, Dramatic Revisions of Myths, Fairy Tales, and Legends: Essays on Recent Plays, and African Performance Review, among others. He has also directed productions of Nigerian and South African plays in the United States and works as an actor, director and stage combat choreographer.
13 Ebooks de Kevin J. Wetmore
Kevin J. Wetmore: Representing Africa in the Motherland and the Diaspora
This volume brings together fifteen scholars from Africa, Europe and the United States to explore how Africa is represented in and through the performing arts and cinema. Essays include discussions o …
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Jr., Wetmore Kevin J. Wetmore: Black Dionysus
Many playwrights, authors, poets and historians have used images, metaphors and references to and from Greek tragedy, myth and epic to describe the African experience in the New World. The complex re …
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Jr., Wetmore Kevin J. Wetmore: Portrayals of Americans on the World Stage
This collection of 14 essays explores drama from around the world that depicts the United States and Americans. From eighteenth century German dramas about Native Americans through post-Revolutionary …
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Jr., Wetmore Kevin J. Wetmore: Catholic Theatre and Drama
The relationship between the Catholic Church and theatre has a long and complicated history. This collection of fourteen critical essays seeks to demystify the ties–both practical and ideological–t …
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Jr., Wetmore Kevin J. Wetmore: Back from the Dead
Since 1968, the name of motion picture director George Romero has been synonymous with the living dead. His landmark film Night of the Living Dead formed the paradigm of modern zombie cinema; often c …
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Jr., Wetmore Kevin J. Wetmore: Theology of Battlestar Galactica
The reimagined television series Battlestar Galactica (2005 to 2009 on the Sci Fi Channel), features religion and theology among its central concerns–but does not simply use its myriad faiths as plo …
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Jr., Wetmore Kevin J. Wetmore: Oberammergau Passion Play
Every ten years since 1634, the Bavarian village of Oberammergau has performed the world’s most famous Passion Play, recounting the last days of Jesus Christ. In 2010, presenting the play for the 41s …
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Jr., Wetmore Kevin J. Wetmore: Empire Triumphant
George Lucas’s first Star Wars trilogy shows the influences of its era; Cold War tension is evident in its theme of rebellion against totalitarianism. Recent entries in the Star Wars saga–The Phanto …
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Jr., Wetmore Kevin J. Wetmore: Uncovering Stranger Things
The Duffer Brothers’ award-winning Stranger Things exploded onto the pop culture scene in 2016. The Netflix original series revels in a nostalgic view of 1980s America while darkly portraying the cyn …
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Juli Gittinger & Shayna Sheinfeld: Theology and Westworld
In the first two seasons of the HBO series Westworld, human guests pay exorbitant fees to spend time among cybernetic Hostspartially sentient AI robotsand live out often violent fantasies. In Theolog …
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Simon Bacon & Simon Bacon: Anthropocene and the Undead
The Anthropocene and the Undead describes how our experience of an increasingly erratic environment and the idea of the undead are more closely linked than the obvious zombie horde signaling the end …
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Lorna Piatti-Farnell & Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock: Disney Gothic
Despite Disney’s carefully crafted image of family friendliness, Gothic elements are pervasive in all of Disney’s productions, ranging from its theme parks to its films and television programs. The c …
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Elizabeth Reitz Mullenix: Theatre History Studies 2015, Vol. 34
Volume 34 of Theatre History Studies revisits the foundations of theatre, explores the boundaries and definitions of theatre, and illuminates how writing about the history of theatre is itself a form …
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