Staged : Show Trials, Political Theater, and the Aesthetics of Judgment /

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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 sho...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Arjomand, Minou (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2018]
Temas:
Aesthetics > Political aspects.
Legal drama > History and criticism.
Political plays > History and criticism.
Theater > Philosophy.
Theater > Political aspects.
Trials.
War crime trials.
PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Critical Theory.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • ILLUSTRATIONS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • Introduction: Show Trials and Political Theater
  • Chapter One. Hannah Arendt: Judging in Dark Times
  • Chapter Two. Bertolt Brecht: Poetic Justice
  • Chapter Three. Erwin Piscator: Theater After Auschwitz
  • Chapter Four. Trials in Nuremberg
  • Conclusion. Archives, Law, and Theater Today
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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