Staging Difficult Pasts

Author : Maria M. Delgado,Michal Kobialka,Bryce Lease
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781003828310

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This collection of original essays brings together museum, theatre, and performance case studies with a focus on their distinctive and overlapping modes of producing memory for transnational audiences. Whether this is through narrative, object, embodied encounter or a combination of the three, this volume considers distinctions and interactions between memory and history specifically through the lenses of theatre and performance studies, visual culture, and museum and curator studies. This book is underpinned by three areas of research enquiry: How are contemporary theatre makers and museum curators staging historical narratives of difficult pasts? How might comparisons between theatre and museum practices offer new insights into the role objects play in generating and representing difficult pasts? What points of overlap, comparison, and contrast among these constructions of history and memory of authoritarianism, slavery, colonialism, genocide, armed conflict, fascism, and communism might offer an expanded understanding of difficult pasts in these transnational cultural contexts? This collection is designed for any scholar of its central disciplines, as well as for those interested in cultural geography, memory studies, and postcolonial theory. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives (CC-BY-ND) 4.0 license.

Author : Maria M. Delgado,Michal Kobialka,Bryce Lease
Publisher : Taylor & Francis Group
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : History
ISBN : 1003315828

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Staging Difficult Pasts by Maria M. Delgado,Michal Kobialka,Bryce Lease Pdf

"This collection of original essays brings together museum, theatre and performance case studies with a focus on their distinctive and overlapping modes of producing memory for transnational audiences. Whether this is through narrative, object, embodied encounter or a combination of the three, the book considers distinctions and interactions between memory and history specifically through the lenses of theatre and performance studies, visual culture, and museum and curator studies. This book is underpinned by three areas of research enquiry: How are contemporary theatre makers and museum curators staging historical narratives of difficult pasts? How might comparisons between theatre and museum practices offer new insights into the role objects play in generating and representing difficult pasts? What points of overlap, comparison and contrast among these constructions of history and memory of authoritarianism, slavery, colonialism, genocide, armed conflict, fascism and communism might offer an expanded understanding of difficult pasts in these transnational cultural contexts? This collection is designed for any scholar of its central disciplines, as well as for those interested in cultural geography, memory studies, and postcolonial theory"--

Author : Claire Colomb
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781136489365

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Staging the New Berlin by Claire Colomb Pdf

This book explores the politics of place marketing and the process of ‘urban reinvention’ in Berlin between 1989 and 2011. In the context of the dramatic socio-economic restructuring processes, changes in urban governance and physical transformation of the city following the Fall of the Wall, the ‘new’ Berlin was not only being built physically, but staged for visitors and Berliners and marketed to the world through events and image campaigns which featured the iconic architecture of large-scale urban redevelopment sites. Public-private partnerships were set up specifically to market the ‘new Berlin’ to potential investors, tourists, Germans and the Berliners themselves. The book analyzes the images of the city and the narrative of urban change, which were produced over two decades. In the 1990s three key sites were turned into icons of the ‘new Berlin’: the new Postdamer Platz, the new government quarter, and the redeveloped historical core of the Friedrichstadt. Eventually, the entire inner city was ‘staged’ through a series of events which turned construction sites into tourist attractions. New sites and spaces gradually became part of the 2000s place marketing imagery and narrative, as urban leaders sought to promote the ‘creative city’. By combining urban political economy and cultural approaches from the disciplines of urban politics, geography, sociology and planning, the book contributes to a better understanding of the interplay between the symbolic ‘politics of representation’ through place marketing and the politics of urban development and place making in contemporary urban governance.

Author : Maria M. Delgado,Dan Rebellato
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780429682193

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Contemporary European Theatre Directors by Maria M. Delgado,Dan Rebellato Pdf

This expanded second edition of Contemporary European Theatre Directors is an ambitious and unprecedented overview of many of the key directors working in European theatre over the past 30 years. This book is a vivid account of the vast range of work undertaken in European theatre during the last three decades, situated lucidly in its artistic, cultural, and political context. Each chapter discusses a particular director, showing the influences on their work, how it has developed over time, its reception, and the complex relation it has with its social and cultural context. The volume includes directors living and working in Italy, Germany, France, Spain, Poland, Russia, Romania, the UK, Belgium, Switzerland, and the Netherlands, offering a broad and international picture of the directing landscape. Now revised and updated, Contemporary European Theatre Directors is an ideal text for both undergraduate and postgraduate directing students, as well as those researching contemporary theatre practices, providing a detailed guide to the generation of directors whose careers were forged and tempered in the changing Europe following the end of the Cold War.

Author : María Chouza-Calo,Esther Fernández,Jonathan Thacker
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781802076387

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Daring Adaptations, Creative Failures and Experimental Performances in Iberian Theatre by María Chouza-Calo,Esther Fernández,Jonathan Thacker Pdf

In this volume, we are particularly interested in approaching theatre and performance as a dynamic and evolving practice of continuous change, regeneration and cultural mobility. Neither the dramatic texts nor their stage versions should be viewed as finished products but as creative processes in the making. Their richness lies in their unfinished and never-ending potential energy and their openness to constant revision, rehearsal, revival, and collective enterprise. This edited collection aims to create a dialogue on the artistic processes implicated in the various ways of working with the play text, the staging practices, the way audiences and critical reception can impact a production, and the many lives of Iberian theatre beyond the page or the stage. That is, its cultural and social legacies.

Author : Maria M. Delgado,Bryce Lease,Dan Rebellato
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781351620536

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Contemporary European Playwrights by Maria M. Delgado,Bryce Lease,Dan Rebellato Pdf

Contemporary European Playwrights presents and discusses a range of key writers that have radically reshaped European theatre by finding new ways to express the changing nature of the continent’s society and culture, and whose work is still in dialogue with Europe today. Traversing borders and languages, this volume offers a fresh approach to analyzing plays in production by some of the most widely-performed European playwrights, assessing how their work has revealed new meanings and theatrical possibilities as they move across the continent, building an unprecedented picture of the contemporary European repertoire. With chapters by leading scholars and contributions by the writers themselves, the chapters bring playwrights together to examine their work as part of a network and genealogy of writing, examining how these plays embody and interrogate the nature of contemporary Europe. Written for students and scholars of European theatre and playwriting, this book will leave the reader with an understanding of the shifting relationships between the subsidized and commercial, the alternative and the mainstream stage, and political stakes of playmaking in European theatre since 1989.

Author : Tanya Goodman,Ronald Eyerman,Jeffrey C. Alexander
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317251491

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Staging Solidarity by Tanya Goodman,Ronald Eyerman,Jeffrey C. Alexander Pdf

The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) is a modern social drama that enabled the nation's apartheid past to be constructed as a cultural trauma, and by doing so created a new collective narrative of diversity and inclusion. The TRC relied primarily on testimonies from victims and perpetrators of apartheid violence who came forward to tell their stories in a public forum. Rather than simply serving as data for setting the historical record straight, this book shows that it was not only the content of these testimonies but also how these stories were told and what values were attached to them that became significant. Goodman argues that the performative nature of the TRC process effectively designated the past as profane and simultaneously imagined a sacred future community based on democratic idealism and universal solidarity.

Author : Prof Angela V John,Angela V. John
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134926831

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Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life by Prof Angela V John,Angela V. John Pdf

A woman of extraordinary energy, talent and versatility. Elizabeth Robins was an actress who popularised Ibsen on the British stage, a prolific and popular writer of novels and non-fiction, and an Edwardian suffragette. Her extensive circle of friends included Florence Bell, Henry James, John Masefield and William Archer. She worked with the Pankhursts and knew the Woolfs. Through examining the life and work of this vivid and transatlantic figure born during the American Civil War yet surviving into the England of the 1950s, Angela John raises questions about the shaping of historical identities. Situating Elizabeth Robins's achievement in the context of the British and American cultural history of the period, this is a book which will attract historians, teachers and students of theatre studies and all those fascinated by biography.

Author : Vicky Angelaki
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031548925

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Staging Interspaces in Contemporary British Theatre by Vicky Angelaki Pdf

Author : Brenda Werth,Katherine Zien
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472056736

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Bodies on the Front Lines by Brenda Werth,Katherine Zien Pdf

Performances as feminist, queer, and trans activism, from theater and flash mobs to street protests and online manifestos

Author : Susanne Leeb,Nina Samuel
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783839455142

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Museums, Transculturality, and the Nation-State by Susanne Leeb,Nina Samuel Pdf

While the nation-state gave rise to the advent of museums, its influence in times of transculturality and post-/decolonial studies appears to have vanished. But is this really the case? With case studies from various geo- and sociopolitical contexts from around the globe, the contributors investigate which roles the nation-state continues to play in museums, collections, and heritage. They answer the question to which degree the nation-state still determines practices of collection and circulation and its amount of power to shape contemporary narratives. The volume thus examines the contradictions at play when the necessary claim for transculturality meets the institutions of the nation-state. With contributions by Stanislas Spero Adotevi, Sebastián Eduardo Dávila, Natasha Ginwala, Monica Hanna, Rajkamal Kahlon, Suzana Milevska, Mirjam Shatanawi, Kavita Singh, Ruth Stamm, Andrea Witcomb.

Author : M. Silberman,F. Vatan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137343529

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Memory and Postwar Memorials by M. Silberman,F. Vatan Pdf

The twentieth century witnessed genocides, ethnic cleansing, forced population expulsions, shifting borders, and other disruptions on an unprecedented scale. This book examines the work of memory and the ethics of healing in post authoritarian societies that have experienced state-perpetrated violence.

Author : Sarah Huntington Jessup
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 826 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Operas, Chinese
ISBN : UOM:39015055439767

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Staging Traditional Chinese Opera in the Reform Era by Sarah Huntington Jessup Pdf

This study adds to understandings of Asian transformation to modernity by showing how a folk performance was shaped by particular historical and cultural processes. Contradictions in Asian modernity show that it does not correspond to Western expectations of a general transformation. The "traditional" aspects of local Chinese opera were not consistent in form or ideology and were used to claim an identity in the present. Similarly, the ways in which modernity in opera varied reveal contradictions in historical experiences and reform era experiences and in relationships to the Party.

Author : B. Trezise
Publisher : Springer
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137336224

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Performing Feeling in Cultures of Memory by B. Trezise Pdf

Performing Feeling in Cultures of Memory brings memory studies into conversation with a focus on feelings as cultural actors. It charts a series of memory sites that range from canonical museums and memorials, to practices enabled by the virtual terrain of Second Life, popular 'trauma TV' programs and radical theatre practice.

Author : Roger Bechtel
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0838756492

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Past Performance by Roger Bechtel Pdf

In this age of overweening global capital and omnipresent electronic media, many critics have diagnosed Western culture as suffering from a kind of historical obliviousness, a mass inability to situate our lived experience within the temporal flow of past, present, and future that is history. Within this historically bankrupt culture, representations of history in whatever medium - cinema, television, print - most often become mere fashion, the quotation of past styles devoid of historical gravitas. Against this, Past Performance: American Theatre and the Historical Imagination argues that many contemporary American theatre and performance artists are not only developing innovative strategies for staging history, but helping us reimagine our relationship with the past.