Drama, politics and evolution : cliodynamics in play / Bruce McConachie.
McConachie, Bruce A.
2021
PN2039 .M33 2021eb
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Title Drama, politics and evolution : cliodynamics in play / Bruce McConachie.
Author McConachie, Bruce A.
ISBN 9783030813772 (electronic bk.)
3030813770 (electronic bk.)
3030813762
9783030813765
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81377-2
Imprint Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-81377-2 doi
Call Number PN2039 .M33 2021eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 792.01
Summary This book outlines the evolution of our political nature over two million years and explores many of the rituals, plays, films, and other performances that gave voice and legitimacy to various political regimes in our species history. Our genetic and cultural evolution during the Pleistocene Epoch bestowed a wide range of predispositions on our species that continue to shape the politics we support and the performances we enjoy. The books case studies range from an initiation ritual in the Mbendjela tribe in the Congo to a 1947 drama by Bertolt Brecht and include a popular puppet play in Tokugawa Japan. A final section examines the gradual disintegration of social cohesion underlying the rise of polarized politics in the US after 1965, as such films as The Godfather, Independence Day, The Dark Knight Rises, and Joker accelerated the nations slide toward authoritarian Trumpism. A historian of performance, Bruce McConachie has written Engaging Audiences (2008), Evolution, Cognition, and Performance (2015), and Theatre Histories: An Introduction (with others, 2006, 2010, and 2016).
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series Cognitive studies in literature and performance.
Available in Other Form Print version: 9783030813772
Print version: 9783030813765
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Chapter 1: Genes, Culture and History in Coevolution
Chapter 2: Cultural Performatives in History
Chapter 3: Coevolution in the Pleistocene
Chapter 4: Destructive Creation in World History
Chapter 5: Post-war Hegemony and the Reagan Reversal, 1945-1985
Chapter 6: Neoliberalism and Political Realignment, 1980-2015
Chapter 7: The Better Angels of Our Nature or the Age of Trump, 2000-2020.

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