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  • New Deal theater[electronic resource] :the vernacular tradition in American political theater /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 812.5209358
    書名/作者: New Deal theater : the vernacular tradition in American political theater // Ilka Saal.
    作者: Saal, Ilka.
    出版者: New York : : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2007.
    面頁冊數: 232 p.
    標題: Theater - Political aspects - 20th century. - United States
    標題: American drama - History and criticism. - 20th century
    標題: Politics and literature - History - 20th century. - United States
    標題: Political plays, American - History and criticism.
    ISBN: 9780230608832
    ISBN: 0230608833
    書目註: Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-221) and index.
    內容註: Brecht on Broadway: reconsidering political theater -- Disjunctive aesthetics: a genealogy ofpolitical theater -- Strike songs: working- and middle-class revolutionaries -- Plays of cash and cabbages: from proletarian melodrama to revolutionary realism -- Why sing skies above?: labor musicalsand living newspapers -- Toward postmodernism: the political theater of the 1960s.
    摘要、提要註: New Deal Theater recovers a much ignored model of political theater for cultural criticism. While considered to be less radical in its aesthetics and politics than its celebrated Weimar and Soviet cousins, it nonetheless proved to be highly effective in asserting cultural critique. In this regard it offers a vital alternative to the dominant modernist paradigm developed in Europe. Rather than radicalizing content and form, New Deal theater insisted that the political had to be made commensurable with the language of a mass audience steeped in consumer culture. The resulting vernacular praxis emphasized empathy over alienation, verisimilitude over abstraction. By examining the culturalvectors that shaped this theater, Saal shows why it was more successful on the American stage than its European counterpart and develops a theory of vernacular political theater which can help us think of the political in art in other than modernist terms.
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