Performing the Past

Performing the Past
Title Performing the Past PDF eBook
Author Karin Tilmans
Publisher Amsterdam University Press
Pages 369
Release 2010
Genre History
ISBN 9089642056

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Karin Tilmans is an historian, and academic coordinator of the Max Weber Programme at the European University Institute, Florence. Frank van Vree is an historian and professor of journalism at the University of Amsterdam. Jay M. Winter is the Charles J. Stille Professor of History at Yale. --

Performing History

Performing History
Title Performing History PDF eBook
Author Freddie Rokem
Publisher University of Iowa Press
Pages 0
Release 2007-03-15
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9781587295881

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In his examination of the ways in which theatre participates in the ongoing representations of and debates about the past, Freddie Rokem concentrates on the ways in which theatre after World War II has presented different aspects of the French Revolution and the Holocaust, showing us that by “performing history” actors bring the historical past and the theatrical present together.

Representing the Past

Representing the Past
Title Representing the Past PDF eBook
Author Charlotte M. Canning
Publisher University of Iowa Press
Pages 429
Release 2010-04-15
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 1587299380

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"Representing the Past is required reading for any serious scholar of theatre and performance historiography: original in its conception, global in its reach, thought-provoking and transformative in its effects."---Gay Gibson Cima, author, Early American Women Crities: Performance, Religion, Race --

Performing the Past

Performing the Past
Title Performing the Past PDF eBook
Author Tamar Katriel
Publisher Routledge
Pages 185
Release 2013-11-05
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 1136689443

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A nostalgic interest in the past is a well-recognized feature of fast-changing, contemporary societies. It finds its expression in a variety of history-making practices of which the establishment of local heritage museums is a major manifestation in many parts of the world today. Katriel develops a communication-centered perspective on the study of heritage museums and -- by extension -- other tourist sites, highlighting the role of discourse in these institutionalized, yet vernacular contexts of cultural production, social legitimation, and identity formation. Descriptive and critical in orientation, this book combines a close analysis of museum discourse with an exploration of such larger issues as: * the socio-cultural role of museums as arenas for the production of collective memory, * the ideological and performative constraints that shape museum presentations, * the interfacing of verbal and visual codes of communication in the context of material displays, * the dialectical interplay of the local and the global in contemporary life, and * the interpenetration of the personal and the communal in vernacular processes of narrative production. Of interest to scholars in communication, linguistics, anthropology, history, museum studies, tourism, intercultural communication, middle eastern studies, or those with interests in narratives, material culture, and ethnography.

Acting on the Past

Acting on the Past
Title Acting on the Past PDF eBook
Author Mark Franko
Publisher Wesleyan University Press
Pages 260
Release 2000-02-28
Genre Art
ISBN 9780819563958

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Leading scholars redefine the scope and concerns of scholarship on historical performance.

Art of Suppression

Art of Suppression
Title Art of Suppression PDF eBook
Author Pamela M. Potter
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 408
Release 2016-06-28
Genre Art
ISBN 0520282345

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This provocative study asks why we have held on to vivid images of the NazisÕ total control of the visual and performing arts, even though research has shown that many artists and their works thrived under Hitler. To answer this question, Pamela M. Potter investigates how historians since 1945 have written about music, art, architecture, theater, film, and dance in Nazi Germany and how their accounts have been colored by politics of the Cold War, the fall of communism, and the wish to preserve the idea that true art and politics cannot mix. Potter maintains that although the persecution of Jewish artists and other Òenemies of the stateÓ was a high priority for the Third Reich, removing them from German cultural life did not eradicate their artistic legacies. Art of Suppression examines the cultural histories of Nazi Germany to help us understand how the circumstances of exile, the Allied occupation, the Cold War, and the complex meanings of modernism have sustained a distorted and problematic characterization of cultural life during the Third Reich.

Dramas of the Past on the Twentieth-Century Stage

Dramas of the Past on the Twentieth-Century Stage
Title Dramas of the Past on the Twentieth-Century Stage PDF eBook
Author Alexander Feldman
Publisher Routledge
Pages 272
Release 2013-01-17
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 1136155007

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This book defines and exemplifies a major genre of modern dramatic writing, termed historiographic metatheatre, in which self-reflexive engagements with the traditions and forms of dramatic art illuminate historical themes and aid in the representation of historical events and, in doing so, formulates a genre. Historiographic metatheatre has been, and remains, a seminal mode of political engagement and ideological critique in the contemporary dramatic canon. Locating its key texts within the traditions of historical drama, self-reflexivity in European theatre, debates in the politics and aesthetics of postmodernism, and currents in contemporary historiography, this book provides a new critical idiom for discussing the major works of the genre and others that utilize its techniques. Feldman studies landmarks in the theatre history of postwar Britain by Weiss, Stoppard, Brenton, Wertenbaker and others, focusing on European revolutionary politics, the historiography of the World Wars and the effects of British colonialism. The playwrights under consideration all use the device of the play-within-the-play to explore constructions of nationhood and of Britishness, in particular. Those plays performed within the framing works are produced in places of exile where, Feldman argues, the marginalized negotiate the terms of national identity through performance.