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Fascism and Theatre

Author : Günter Berghaus
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 1571818774

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Presents 15 essays from an interdisciplinary research project, offering a comparative analysis of the forms and functions of theater in countries governed by fascist and para-fascist regimes. Topics include the cultural politics of fascist governments; the theater of politics in fascist Italy; Mussolini's "Theater of the Masses"; the influence of the Reich's Ministry of Propaganda on German theater and drama; and Jaques Copeau and popular theater in Vichy France. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Mussolini's Theatre

Author : Patricia Gaborik
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-06
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781108830591

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A vividly written portrait of Benito Mussolini, whose passion for the theatre profoundly shaped his ideology and actions as head of fascist Italy This consistently illuminating book transforms our understanding of fascism as a whole, and will have strong appeal to readers in both theatre studies and modern Italian history.

Staging Fascism

Author : Jeffrey Thompson Schnapp
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0804726086

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On an April evening in Florence in 1934, before twenty thousand spectators, the mass spectacle 18BL was presented, involving two thousand amateur actors, an air squadron, one infantry and cavalry brigade, fifty trucks, four field and machine gun batteries, ten field-radio stations, and six photoelectric units. However titantic its scale, 18BL's ambitions were even greater: to institute a revolutionary fascist theater of the future, a modern theatre of and for the masses that would end the crisis of the bourgeois theatre. This is the complete story of the event, a colossal failure to critics and spectators alike, which the fascist government took pains to expunge from the annals of the regime. The detailed reconstruction of these various aspects of 18BL serves as a springboard for a larger inquiry into the place of media, technology, and machinery in the fascist imagination, particularly in its links to fascist models of narrative, historiography, spectacle, and subjectivity.

Fascism and Theatre

Author : Günter Berghaus
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Art and society
ISBN : 1571819010

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Since the 1920s, an endless flow of studies has analyzed the political systems of fascism, theseizure of power, the nature of the regimes, the atrocities committed, and, finally, the wars waged against other countries. However, much less attention has been paid to the strategies of persuasion employed by the regimes to win over the masses for their cause. Among these, fascist propaganda has traditionally been seen as the key means of influencing public opinion. Only recently has the "fascination with Fascism" become a topic of enquiry that has also formed the guiding interest of this volume: it offers, for the first time, a comparative analysis of the forms and functions of theater in countries governed by fascist or para-fascist regimes. By examining a wide spectrum of theatrical manifestations in a number of States with a varying degree of fascistization, these studies establish some of the similarities and differences between the theatrical cultures of several cultures in the interwar period.

Spectacular Suffering

Author : Vivian Patraka
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0253335329

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Surveying texts ranging from plays and performances to films and museums, this book explores the struggle to represent the landscape of the Holocaust.

Staged

Author : Minou Arjomand
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231545730

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Theater requires artifice, justice demands truth. Are these demands as irreconcilable as the pejorative term “show trials” suggests? After the Second World War, canonical directors and playwrights sought to claim a new public role for theater by restaging the era’s great trials as shows. The Nuremberg trials, the Eichmann trial, and the Auschwitz trials were all performed multiple times, first in courts and then in theaters. Does justice require both courtrooms and stages? In Staged, Minou Arjomand draws on a rich archive of postwar German and American rehearsals and performances to reveal how theater can become a place for forms of storytelling and judgment that are inadmissible in a court of law but indispensable for public life. She unveils the affinities between dramatists like Bertolt Brecht, Erwin Piscator, and Peter Weiss and philosophers such as Hannah Arendt and Walter Benjamin, showing how they responded to the rise of fascism with a new politics of performance. Linking performance with theories of aesthetics, history, and politics, Arjomand argues that it is not subject matter that makes theater political but rather the act of judging a performance in the company of others. Staged weaves together theater history and political philosophy into a powerful and timely case for the importance of theaters as public institutions.

Fascism: A Very Short Introduction

Author : Kevin Passmore
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191508554

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What is fascism? Is it revolutionary? Or is it reactionary? Can it be both? Fascism is notoriously hard to define. How do we make sense of an ideology that appeals to streetfighters and intellectuals alike? That is overtly macho in style, yet attracts many women? That calls for a return to tradition while maintaining a fascination with technology? And that preaches violence in the name of an ordered society? In the new edition of this Very Short Introduction, Kevin Passmore brilliantly unravels the paradoxes of one of the most important phenomena in the modern world—tracing its origins in the intellectual, political, and social crises of the late nineteenth century, the rise of fascism following World War I, including fascist regimes in Italy and Germany, and the fortunes of 'failed' fascist movements in Eastern Europe, Spain, and the Americas. He also considers fascism in culture, the new interest in transnational research, and the progress of the far right since 2002. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Tamara

Author : John Krizanc
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781487008499

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Available for the first time in over thirty years, John Krizanc’s internationally acclaimed play redefined the limits of theatre with its haunting tale of art, sex, violence, and political intrigue in Fascist Italy. In the late twenties the poet, war hero, and lothario Gabriele d’Annunzio waits in his opulent villa — a gift from Benito Mussolini in return for his political silence — for the arrival of the artist Tamara de Lempicka, who is to paint his portrait. What follows is a tale of art, sex, violence and the meaning of complicity in an authoritarian state. The action is directed by the reader/audience member, who decides which characters to follow and which narratives to experience. John Krizanc’s masterpiece redefined theatre and won six L.A. Drama Critics Circle Awards, six Dora Mavor Moore Awards, six Drama-Logue Awards, and six Mexican Association of Theatre Critics, and Journalists Awards for its original productions. Now available in a handsome new A List edition, Tamara is an astonishing piece of experimental art and a penetrating look into ethical choices in times of encroaching autocracy.

It Can't Happen Here

Author : Sinclair Lewis
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780241310670

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'An eerily prescient foreshadowing of current affairs' Guardian 'Not only Lewis's most important book but one of the most important books ever produced in the United States' New Yorker A vain, outlandish, anti-immigrant, fearmongering demagogue runs for President of the United States - and wins. Sinclair Lewis's chilling 1935 bestseller is the story of Buzz Windrip, 'Professional Common Man', who promises poor, angry voters that he will make America proud and prosperous once more, but takes the country down a far darker path. As the new regime slides into authoritarianism, newspaper editor Doremus Jessup can't believe it will last - but is he right? This cautionary tale of liberal complacency in the face of populist tyranny shows it really can happen here.

Theatre Under the Nazis

Author : John London
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0719059917

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Were those who worked in the theatres of the Third Reich willing participants in the Nazi propaganda machine or artists independent of official ideology? To what extent did composers such as Richard Strauss and Carl Orff follow Nazi dogma? How did famous directors such as Gustaf Grüdgens and Jürgen Fehling react to the new regime? Why were Shakespeare and George Bernard Shaw among the most performed dramatists of the time? And why did the Nazis sanction Jewish theatre? This is the first book in English about theater in the entire Nazi period. The book is based on contemporary press reports, research in German archives, and interviews with surviving playwrights, actors, and musicians.

Cinema and Fascism

Author : Steven Ricci
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2008-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780520253568

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"This study considers Italian filmmaking during the Fascist era and offers an original and revealing approach to the interwar years. Steven Ricci directly confronts a long-standing dilemma faced by cultural historians: while made during a period of totalitarian government, these films are neither propagandistic nor openly "Fascist." Instead, the Italian Fascist regime attempted to build ideological consensus by erasing markers of class and regional difference and by circulating terms for an imaginary national identity. Cinema and Fascism investigates the complex relationship between the totalitarian regime and Italian cinema. It looks at the films themselves, the industry, and the role of cinema in daily life, and offers new insights into this important but neglected period in cinema history." -- Book cover.

The Unmaking of Fascist Aesthetics

Author : Kriss Ravetto
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0816637431

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In works by filmmakers from Bertolucci to Spielberg, debauched images of nazi and fascist eroticism, symbols of violence and immorality, often bear an uncanny resemblance to the images and symbols once used by the fascists themselves to demarcate racial, sexual, and political others. This book exposes the "madness" inherent in such a course, which attests to the impossibility of disengaging visual and rhetorical constructions from political, ideological, and moral codes. Kriss Ravetto argues that contemporary discourses using such devices actually continue unacknowledged rhetorical, moral, and visual analogies of the past. Against postwar fictional and historical accounts of World War II in which generic images of evil characterize the nazi and the fascist, Ravetto sets the more complex approach of such filmmakers as Pier Paolo Pasolini, Liliana Cavani, and Lina Wertmuller. Her book asks us to think deeply about what it means to say that we have conquered fascism, when the aesthetics of fascism still describe and determine how we look at political figures and global events. Book jacket.

Broadway Goes to War

Author : Robert L. McLaughlin,Sally E. Parry
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780813181011

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Broadway Goes to War by Robert L. McLaughlin,Sally E. Parry Pdf

The American theater was not ignorant of the developments brought on by World War II, and actively addressed and debated timely, controversial topics for the duration of the war, including neutrality and isolationism, racism and genocide, and heroism and battle fatigue. Productions such as Watch on the Rhine (1941), The Moon is Down (1942), Tomorrow the World (1943), and A Bell for Adano (1944) encouraged public discussion of the war's impact on daily life and raised critical questions about the conflict well before other forms of popular media. American drama of the 1940s is frequently overlooked, but the plays performed during this eventful decade provide a picture of the rich and complex experience of living in the United States during the war years. McLaughlin and Parry's work fills a significant gap in the history of theater and popular culture, showing that American society was more divided and less idealistic than the received histories of the WWII home front and the entertainment industry recognize.

Vanguard Performance Beyond Left and Right

Author : Kimberly Jannarone
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780472119677

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Explores the complex relationship between avant-garde art and politics to reveal links with right-wing or fascist causes

Artaud and His Doubles

Author : Kimberly Jannarone
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780472035151

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DIVA radical re-thinking of one of the most canonized figures in theater history, theory, and practice/div