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What do the theater, Los Angeles, and a bodybuilder have in common? Although the combination seems unlikely, two new and innovative drama studies construe these and other postmodern "constructions" as part of a theoretical paradigm that relates |textuality' to performative and cultural production. Making short order of the demand for poststructuralist analyses of contemporary drama and performance, Johannes Birringer and W B. Worthen formulate a "second stage" of theater studies by demonstrating that cultural production and representation affect more than technology, shaping aesthetic models and ideologies of the subject as well.
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