Overview
Gathers expert contributions from fields such as theatre studies, history, languages and dramaturgy
Brings together current theoretical debates around the ‘institutional turn’ in theatre and performance studies
Presents dramaturgy as a process which has far reaching institutional and political implications
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Dramaturgical Contexts: Institutionalised Ideologies
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Institutional Infrastructures: Theatres of Oppression
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Performance Practice: Dramaturgy and the Aesthetics of War
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About the editors
Anselm Heinrich is a Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Glasgow. His books include Entertainment, Education, Propaganda (2007), Theater in der Region (2012), Theatre in Europe Under German Occupation (2017), and a volume on Ruskin, The Theatre, and Victorian Visual Culture (2009). He is currently under contract for a monograph on theatre in Britain during WWII. He has held research fellowships at Harvard, Oxford and Marburg.
Ann-Christine Simke is a Lecturer in Performance at the University of the West of Scotland. She recently published the article “Forensic Architecture in the Theatre and the Gallery: A Reflection on Counter hegemonic Potentials and Pitfalls of Art Institutions” (with Anika Marschall, 2022) and is currently under contract for a co-authored (with Anika Marschall) book on intersectional theatre practices.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Dramaturgies of War
Book Subtitle: Institutional Dramaturgy, Politics, and Conflict in 20th-Century Germany
Editors: Anselm Heinrich, Ann-Christine Simke
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39318-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-39317-4Published: 02 December 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-39320-4Due: 16 December 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-39318-1Published: 01 December 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 279
Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Global/International Theatre and Performance, Theatre History, Political History, History of World War II and the Holocaust