Voicing Dissent : American Artists and the War on Iraq (Paperback)

Foreword  Michele Lamont.  Preface  Steve Greenfield and Guy Osborn.  Introduction  Section 1: Figures of Committed Artists  1. Models and Public Voices in the Anti-War Movement  1.1. Robbie Conal: Figure of the Activist-Artist  1.2. Mike Farrell and Robert Greenwald: Leaders of the Hollywood Movement  1.3. Ozomatli: Not to "Separate Ourselves from the Movement"  1.4. Kathleen Chalfant: Combining Radicalism with Establishment  2. Generations and Relations to Politics  2.1. Sheila Pinkel: Activist-Artist in a Dark Time  2.2. Margo Lee Sherman: Bread and Puppet’s Legacy  2.3. Ed Asner: Ambivalence of a Leftist Identification  2.4. Cynthia Croot: Temporally Rooted Devotion  2.5. Emek: Politicization as an Artistic Innovation  3. Identities, Communities and Anti-War Activism  3.1. Tony Shalhoub and Amitis Motevalli: Confronting Middle-Eastern Perspectives  3.2. Dread Scott: Use of Multilayered Identifications  3.3. Alexandra Paul: Strategic Identities in the Service of a Cause  3.4. Guerilla Girls On Tour: Women and Anti-War Activism  Section 2: Artistic Professions and Politics  4. Costs and Paradoxes of Engaged Art  4.1. Lida Abdullah and Susan Silton: Threats on the Visual Arts  4.2. David Clennon: The Price of Political Commitment in Hollywood  4.3. Fredwreck: The Rules of the Music Industry  4.4. Sophia Skiles: Professional Ambivalences of Political Commitment  4.5. Mear-One: Paradoxes of Politicization  5. Shaping a Political Intention in the Form of Art: From Tension to Affinity  5.1. Focus 1: Around Day Zero: The "Political Fiction Film", An Impossible Genre? Interviews with Bryan Gunnar Cole (director), Robert Malkany(scriptwriter), Jon Bernthal (actor) and Anthony Moody (producer)  5.2. Focus 2: Around Living Theatre’s Plays The Brig, No Sir and A Day in the Life of the City: Uses and Constraints of Street Theatre Plays. Interviews with Actors from the Living Theatre (Jerry Goralnick and Garry Brackett)  5.3. Shepard Fairey: Changing Clients into Publics  6. Hollywood and the War: Celebrities versus Politicians?  6.1. Paul Haggis: Leading by Example  6.2. Bradley Whitford: The Dynamics of The West Wing  6.3. Sean Astin: Hollywood, Politics and Power  6.4. Peter Coyote: Engagement versus Activism  6.5. Kimberly Pierce: The Strength of "Cultural Power"