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Theatre, sacrifice, ritual : exploring forms of political theatre /

"This innovative study of 20th century performative culture boldly examines the complexities of political theatre, propaganda and manipulation of the masses, and offers a revolutionary approach to the study of theatre and performance history. In offering both a performative and a semiotic analy...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fischer-Lichte, Erika
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue : Electra's transgressions
  • Reconceptualizing theatre and ritual
  • Re-inventing a people's theatre : Max Reinhardt's Theatre of the five thousand
  • Re-inventing ritual : the Olympic Games
  • Times of revolution, times of festival : the Soviet mass spectacles, 1917-1920
  • Producing the Volk community : the Thingspiel movement 1933-36
  • Towards the rebirth of a nation : American Zionist pageants 1932-1946
  • Bringing about a crisis
  • The Bacchae : dismembering the text
  • The rebirth of tragedy out of the chorus
  • Epilogue : renouncing sacrifice.