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Ilka Saal - New Deal Theater - 9781403978011 - V9781403978011
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New Deal Theater

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Description for New Deal Theater Hardback. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSBH; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 460.
New Deal Theater recovers a much ignored model of political theater for cultural criticism.While considered to be less radical in its aesthetics and politics than its celebrated Weimar and Soviet cousins, it nonetheless proved to be highly effective in asserting cultural critique. In this regard it offers a vital alternative to the dominant modernist paradigm developed in Europe. Rather than radicalizing content and form, New Deal theater insisted that the political had to be made commensurable with the language of a mass audience steeped in consumer culture.The resulting vernacular praxis emphasized empathy over alienation, verisimilitude over abstraction. By examining the ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
241
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9781403978011
SKU
V9781403978011
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Ref
99-15

About Ilka Saal
Ilka Saal teaches Drama & Theater and American Studies at the University of Richmond.

Reviews for New Deal Theater
Winner of the2008 SAMLA Studies Award! "Thisstudy will be a very important contribution to the field. What Saal does so well is to identify an American tradition she calls vernacular theater. It has often been described as a naive American theater tradition unworthy of comparison to its more sophisticated European contemporaries. Saal successfully identifies the complex and ... Read more

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