Staging Postcommunism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Staging Postcommunism write by Vessela S. Warner. This book was released on 2020-01-01. Staging Postcommunism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Theatre in Eastern and Central Europe was never the same after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. In the transition to a postcommunist world, “alternative theatre” found ways to grapple with political chaos, corruption, and aggressive implementation of a market economy. Three decades later, this volume is the first comprehensive examination of alternative theatre in ten former communist countries. The essays focus on companies and artists that radically changed the language and organization of theatre in the countries formerly known as the Eastern European bloc. This collection investigates the ways in which postcommunist alternative theatre negotiated and embodied change not only locally but globally as well. Contributors: Dennis Barnett, Dennis C. Beck, Violeta Decheva, Luule Epner, John Freedman, Barry Freeman, Margarita Kompelmakher, Jaak Rahesoo, Angelina Ros ̧ca, Ban ̧uta Rubess, Christopher Silsby, Andrea Tompa, S. E. Wilmer
Staging Postcommunism
Staging Postcommunism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Staging Postcommunism write by Vessela S. Warner. This book was released on 2019. Staging Postcommunism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection investigates the ways in which postcommunist alternative theatre negotiated and embodied change not only locally but globally as well.
Subversive Stages
Subversive Stages - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Subversive Stages write by Ileana Alexandra Orlich. This book was released on 2017-04-30. Subversive Stages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Exploring theater practices in communist and post-communist Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria, this book analyzes intertextuality or "inter-theatricality" as a political strategy, designed to criticize contemporary political conditions while at the same time trying to circumvent censorship. Plays by Romanian, Hungarian and Bulgarian dramatists are examined, who are "retrofitting" the past by adapting the political crimes and horrifying tactics of totalitarianism to the classical theatre (with Shakespeare a favorite) to reveal the region's traumatic history. By the sustained analysis of the aesthetic devices used as political tools, Orlich makes a very strong case for the continued relevance of the theater as one of the subtlest media in the public sphere. She embeds her close readings in a thorough historical analysis and displays a profound knowledge of the political role of theater history. In the Soviet bloc the theater of the absurd, experimentation, irony, and intertextual distancing (estrangement) are not seen as mere aesthetic language games but as political strategies that use indirection to say what cannot be said directly.
Staging Stalinism in Post-communist Romanian Theatre
Staging Stalinism in Post-communist Romanian Theatre - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Staging Stalinism in Post-communist Romanian Theatre write by Ileana Alexandra Orlich. This book was released on 2012. Staging Stalinism in Post-communist Romanian Theatre available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Post-Communist Aesthetics
Post-Communist Aesthetics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Post-Communist Aesthetics write by Anca M. Pusca. This book was released on 2015-11-06. Post-Communist Aesthetics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this book, Anca Pusca seeks to extend the aesthetic and cultural turn in international relations to an analysis of post-communist transitions in Central and Eastern Europe. Building on the philosophy of Walter Benjamin and Jacques Ranciere, the work investigates how post-communist film, photography, theatre, art, museumization and architecture have creatively re-engaged with ideas of revolution, communism, capitalism and ethnic violence, and how this in turn has helped people survive and reinvent themselves amongst the material and ideological ruins of communism. The work illustrates how popular culture has effectively targeted and re-interpreted the classical representations of the transition in order to question: • The origin – focusing on practices of re-staging, memorializing and questioning the 1989 revolutions. • The unfolding – focusing on the human and material consequences of significant changes in processes of production and consumption. • The potential end – focusing on the illusions and disillusions surrounding the 'transition' process. A unique take on the influence that popular culture has had and continues to have on how we understand the post-communist transitions, this work will be of great interest to students and scholars of cultural and visual studies, eastern European politics and international relations.
