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| Titel |
Passionate Amateurs - Theatre, Communism and Love |
| Auteur |
N. Ridout |
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University of Michigan press |
| Jaar van uitgave |
2013
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| ISBN |
9780472119073
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216 p.
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communisme, kunst, politiek, literatuur, kunstkritiek, theater, Nederland |
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Samenvatting
The author argues that theater in modern capitalism can help us think afresh about notions of work, time, and freedom. It begins with one of the first great plays of modern European theater—Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya in Moscow—and then crosses the 20th and 21st centuries to look at how its story plays out in Weimar Republic Berlin, in the Paris of the 1960s, and in a spectrum of contemporary performance in Europe and the United States. This is a work of historical materialist theater scholarship, which combines a materialism grounded in a socialist tradition of cultural studies with some of the insights developed in recent years by theorists of affect, and addresses some fundamental questions about the social function and political potential of theater within modern capitalism. Nicholas Ridout is Reader in Theatre and Performance Studies, Department of Drama, Queen Mary, University of London. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched. |
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