Creative Responsiveness, Dramatic Performance, and Becoming-Democratic. Issue 2 (May 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Goktepe, Katherine
• Is Part Of: Deleuze and Guattari studies. Volume 13:Issue 2(2019)
• Page Start: 240
• Page End: 266
• Publication Date: 2019-05
• Subjects: democracy -- becoming -- responsiveness -- performance -- drama -- Connolly; Philosophy, French -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Periodicals; Criticism and interpretation -- Periodicals; 194
• DOI: 10.3366/dlgs.2019.0354
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2398-9777

Abstract

Abstract : This article draws upon work by Gilles Deleuze, Sanford Meisner, and William Connolly to argue that the practice of acting helps citizens to encounter unsettling circumstances in daily life; respond to and connect with others in more open, interactive ways; and expand the relatively stable repertoire of selves each person cultivates through life. Considering scenes from the films of Anna Magnani, Ronald Reagan, and Joan Crawford, I argue that acting spaces can be sites where an exploration and decentring of subjectivity can proceed and new modes of democratic interaction and togetherness can be enacted.