{"id":1580,"date":"2021-06-14T13:35:43","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T20:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/devuwcps\/?p=1580"},"modified":"2021-10-11T15:06:43","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T22:06:43","slug":"book-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/book-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Interview – Performing Flight: From the Barnstormers to Space Tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"

University of Washington drama professor Scott Magelssen<\/a> explores American aviation from the perspective of performance studies in his new book \u201cPerforming Flight: From the Barnstormers to Space Tourism<\/a>,\u201d published this summer by University of Michigan Press.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI began to realize the important role of performance in legitimizing to American legislators and taxpayers the enormous expenditures involved in the development of space exploration in this country. The idea for the book took off (ahem) from there.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPerforming Flight,\u201d he writes, \u201cexplores how aviation and space travel have been fundamentally connected to the images, gestures, narrative tropes and performative acts that have helped shape the enterprise of flight in public perception and consciousness.\u201d<\/p>\n

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University of Washington drama professor Scott Magelssen explores American aviation from the perspective of performance studies in his new book \u201cPerforming Flight: From the Barnstormers to Space Tourism,\u201d published this summer by University of Michigan Press. \u201cI began to realize the important role of performance in legitimizing to American legislators and taxpayers the enormous expenditures involved in the development of space exploration in this country. The idea for the book took off (ahem) from there.\u201d \u201cPerforming Flight,\u201d he writes, \u201cexplores how aviation…<\/p>\n

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