Staged : show trials, political theater, and the aesthetics of judgment /

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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Arjomand, Minou (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Theater > Political aspects.
Legal drama > History and criticism.
Political plays > History and criticism.
Aesthetics > Political aspects.
Theater > Philosophy.
Trials.
War crime trials.
Théâtre > Aspect politique.
Théâtre judiciaire > Histoire et critique.
Théâtre politique > Histoire et critique.
Procès.
Procès (Crimes de guerre)
trials.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Political plays
Legal drama
Aesthetics > Political aspects
Theater > Philosophy
Theater > Political aspects
Trials
War crime trials
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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