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  • Paperback: 176 pages
  • Publisher: Duke University Press (1 Jan 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0822322641
  • ISBN-13: 978-0822322641
  • Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 15.5 x 1.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
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"Sarah Schulman is one of this country's best cultural critics and novelists, and what she has to say in this book needs to be hear." Alexander Doty, author of Making Things Perfectly Queer. Sarah Schulman writes from a highly scorned community whose members are generally cast as anonymous freaks in someone else's play. As Stagestruck makes clear, the titillating history and ideas of those "freaks" are consistently stolen and then corrupted by uptown "art" marketeers out to make a quick buck. But you cannot change the story without changing the moral of the story. "Soul stealing" is punishable in older societies. It is time we caught up." Diamanda Galas, performer and composer. "Utterly engrossing ... startling and scary ... I have never read a more persuasive account - a wonderfully written one, too - of the commodification that has overtaken us, and the disparity of power between the haves and the have nots ... Stagestruck establishes beyond cavil the gross colonisation by yuppie straight America of all that is special about gay life. Sarah Schulman remains what she has been: a rare, fearless teller of unpleasant truths." Martin Duberman, author of In White America and Stonewall.


Martin Duberman, author of In White America and Stonewall

Utterly engrossing ... startling and scary ... I have never read a more persuasive account - a wonderfully written one, too - of the commodification that has overtaken us, and the disparity of power between the haves and the have nots ... Stagestruck establishes beyond cavil the gross colonization by yuppie straight America of all that is special about gay life. Sarah Schulman remains what she has been: a rare, fearless teller of unpleasant truths.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Riveting, well-written work of cultural criticism, 27 May 1999
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Schulman has the uncanny ability to: a) tell a personal story about the plagiarism of her work, her attempts for resolution, her experiences as a woman, a lesbian, an author in the fight against AIDS; b) write an insightful account of the state of the commercial theatre -- a late '90s version of the type of essay Miller and Albee wrote 40-50 years ago; c) create a remarkable context for unmasking homophobia and explaining the cultural position of gays and lesbians in contempory America; and d) give the reader something that's both challenging and easy to read. I found it to be entirely engaging and incredibly smart.

I am also one of the many people who saw "Rent" on Broadway during the week it won the Tony, and I'm not ashamed to say, I loved it. But a year or so later, when it came to LA, I took a couple of friends and saw it again -- and I have to admit, it seemed fake, packaged, forced. In her role as a critic, apart from her personal connection to the show, Schulman explains why parts of "Rent" seem false. She puts into words some of the fleeting, troubling thoughts I couldn't articulate for myself.

I'm an English professor and I teach drama -- I intend to use "Stagestruck" in future courses.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Sheer genius, 12 Mar 1999
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Obviously the person here who has given this book two stars TWICE is very threatened by the book. Despite his claims of finding it dull and badly written, he's drawn back to read and review the book again! Sounds like Ms. Schulman struck a nerve!

This is a historic book about the commodification and fetishization of marginal experience. It's also a helluva good read -- alternately brilliant, trashy, gossipy, and academic.

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3.0 out of 5 stars A Deeper Analysis is Needed, 10 Jan 1999
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The book divides into three sections, initially examining the similarities between her novel People In Trouble and the musical Rent, and then placing Aids performance in the contemporary theatre setting. By far the most successful section of the book is the dirt on Rent, the treatment of the author shocking, and she makes some excellent attacks on the shallowness of this musical. However, her demonstration of the assimulation of alternative culture and artists into the mainstream, and the harm caused to that alternative art, is uneven. The author has made some excellent points, yet they are often under- developed as she becomes involved in documenting her personal responses to the work discussed. For me, this is the problem with the book. I suspect she is a good writer, yet her personal experience with the powers behind Rent have understandably clouded her objectivity. A longer book (perhaps setting the background with a study of pre- 1990s Aids performance)may have aided her argument-after all she has lived and worked through this period. As it stands, this book is a great article extended too thinly. However, if you care in any way about the threat to performance by the twin pressures of Aids and Capitalism, then my conclusion is obvious-read it!
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3.0 out of 5 stars Compelling Yet Annoying
I find Schulman's story completely fascinating: what it must have been like to summarily ignored and dismissed by people form several communitites in and around the RENT... Read more
Published on 18 Jun 1999

2.0 out of 5 stars The Book Remains Weak
I submitted a previous review of the book (giving it two stars) and, in the spirit of fairness, reviewed the work again recently. Read more
Published on 18 Feb 1999

5.0 out of 5 stars An Extraordinary Look at Contemporary Culture
Sarah Schulman's inspiring and inspired book looks at the gross ways in which genuine American experience is corrupted and commodified by unoriginal, shrewd writers. Read more
Published on 27 Dec 1998

2.0 out of 5 stars Promising but weak and meandering
Oh Sarah you disappoint so!

I bought this book after hearing a snippet of an interview with Ms. Schulman on NPR. Read more

Published on 27 Oct 1998

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