Research
Masters in Performance Making Presentation by Eli Gale on Jewishness as Illness with Susan Sontag’s Illness as Metaphor in Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes by Tony Kushner at Goldsmiths University of London in Course Performance and Medicine Taught by Anna Furse, Fall 2021
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Nosferatu: A Performance and History of The Antisemite’s Jew by Eli Gale proposes Nosferatu as a fundamental example of the performance of the antisemitic fantasy. Researching Vampire and Plague Histories in correlation with historical and modern European Antisemitism, the essay identifies Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (1922) as a performative foreshadow of the dehumanization to be come in the following decade. Replicating the belief system of the author rather than the Jewish people themselves, Gale utilizes performance critical theory and race theory to extricate the racist history that informs Gothic Vampires. Email elizabeth.j.gale@gmail.com for access.
Written by Eli Gale for the Masters of Performance Making Course Performance and Medicine taught by Anna Furse in Winter 2021/2022.