Overview
This Element examines recent documentaries depicting marginalized youth who are ostensibly redeemed by their encounters with Shakespeare. These films emerge in response to four historical and discursive developments: the rise of reality television and its emphasis on the emotional transformation of the private individual; the concomitant rise of neoliberalism and emotional capitalism, which employ therapeutic discourses to individualize social inequality; the privatization of public education and the rise of so-called "no-excuses" or "new paternalist" charter schools; and the emergence of new modes of address infusing evangelical conversion narratives with a therapeutic self-help ethos.
- | Author: Todd Landon Barnes
- | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- | Publication Date: April 09, 2020
- | Number of Pages: 112 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1108743161
- | ISBN-13: 9781108743167
