Vietnam protest theatre : the television war on stage /
The escalation of the war in Vietnam in the mid-1960s unleashed worldwide protest. Playwrights grappled with the complexities of post-imperialist politics and the problems of creating effective political theatre, and for much of their audience the war was chiefly an event on the evening news. The ep...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Bloomington, Ind. :
Indiana University Press,
1996.
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Colección: | Drama and performance studies.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | The escalation of the war in Vietnam in the mid-1960s unleashed worldwide protest. Playwrights grappled with the complexities of post-imperialist politics and the problems of creating effective political theatre, and for much of their audience the war was chiefly an event on the evening news. The ephemeral theatre these writers created, today little-known and rarely studied, provides an important window on a complex moment in culture and history. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxiv, 225 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-217) and index. |
ISBN: | 0585207747 9780585207742 1282076019 9781282076013 9786612076015 6612076011 0253113520 9780253113528 |