{"product_id":"men-at-play-9789042023574","title":"Men at Play","description":"How are masculinities enacted in Australian theatre? How do Australian playwrights depict masculinities in the present and the past, in the bush and on the beach, in the city and in the suburbs? How do Australian plays dramatise gender issues like father-son relations, romance and intimacy, violence and bullying, mateship and homosexuality, race relations between men, and men’s experiences of war and migration?\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eMen at Play\u003c\/i\u003e explores theatre’s role in presenting and contesting images of masculinity in Australia. It ranges from often-produced plays of the 1950s to successful contemporary plays – from Dick Diamond’s \u003ci\u003eReedy River\u003c\/i\u003e, Ray Lawler’s \u003ci\u003eSummer of the Seventeenth Doll\u003c\/i\u003e, Richard Beynon’s \u003ci\u003eThe Shifting Heart\u003c\/i\u003e and Alan Seymour’s \u003ci\u003eThe One Day of the Year\u003c\/i\u003e to David Williamson’s \u003ci\u003eSons of Cain\u003c\/i\u003e, Richard Barrett’s \u003ci\u003eThe Heartbreak Kid\u003c\/i\u003e, Gordon Graham’s \u003ci\u003eThe Boys\u003c\/i\u003e and Nick Enright’s \u003ci\u003eBlackrock\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\nThe book looks at plays as they are produced in the theatre and masculinity as it is enacted on the stage. It is written in an accessible style for students and teachers in drama at university and senior high school. The book’s contribution to contemporary debates about masculinity will also interest scholars in gender, race and sexuality studies, literary studies and Australian history.","brand":"Jonathan Bollen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48268442271995,"sku":"9789042023574","price":99.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9789042023574.jpg?v=1772491625","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/men-at-play-9789042023574","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}