Theatre, globalization and the Cold War / Christopher Balme, Berenika Szymanski-Düll, editors.
2017
PN2189
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Title
Theatre, globalization and the Cold War / Christopher Balme, Berenika Szymanski-Düll, editors.
ISBN
9783319480848 (electronic book)
3319480847 (electronic book)
9783319480831
3319480839
3319480847 (electronic book)
9783319480831
3319480839
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-319-48084-8 doi
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PN2189
Dewey Decimal Classification
792.09/04
301
301
Summary
This book examines how the Cold War had a far-reaching impact on theatre by presenting a range of current scholarship on the topic from scholars from a dozen countries. They represent in turn a variety of perspectives, methodologies and theatrical genres, including not only Bertolt Brecht, Jerzy Grotowski and Peter Brook, but also Polish folk-dancing, documentary theatre and opera production. The contributions demonstrate that there was much more at stake and a much larger investment of ideological and economic capital than a simple dichotomy between East versus West or socialism versus capitalism might suggest. Culture, and theatrical culture in particular with its high degree of representational power, was recognized as an important medium in the ideological struggles that characterize this epoch. Most importantly, the volume explores how theatre can be reconceptualized in terms of transnational or even global processes which, it will be argued, were an integral part of Cold War rivalries.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed June 12, 2017).
Series
Transnational theatre histories.
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Print version: 9783319480831
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