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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Theater--Political aspects"”.
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The Master of the Rebels: Teenage Encounters with Shakespeare, 1944-2012.
… plays about romantic consumption, limiting the political roles of teenagers to onlookers rather than rebellious actors. Attending to what I term double reply, I contend that teenagers can resist their interpellation as romantic consumers, carving a powerful alternative discourse through parody …
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Theatre on Trial: Staging Postwar Justice in the United States and Germany
This dissertation studies the interchange between political theatre and postwar political trials. I argue that to an extraordinary extent, theatre history in this period is inextricable from trial history. Through close archival study of mid-century theatre productions including Bertolt Brecht's …
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"The Destiny of Words": Documentary Theatre, the Avant-Garde, and the Politics of Form
… and do and reframes discussion of the practice's political efficacy by focusing on how documentaries enact ideological critiques through form and seek to reeducate the senses of audiences through pedagogies of reception.
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Playing the Crowd: Mass Pageantry in Europe and the United States, 1905-1935
… dissertation brings to light a theatrical and political genre I call "mass pageantry," which emerged in England, the United States, Russia and Germany during the early twentieth century. Performed out-of-doors, often with thousands of amateur local performers in costume, these vast …