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Past Performance: American Theatre and the Historical Imagination
Roger Bechtel
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paperback. Past Performance: American Theatre and the Historical Imagination argues that many contemporary American theatre and performance artists are not only developing innovative strategies for staging history but helping us reimagine our relationship with the past. Num Pages: 287 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 167 x 20. Weight in Grams: 585.
In this age of overweening global capital and omnipresent electronic media, many critics have diagnosed western culture as suffering from a kind of historical obliviousness, a mass inability to situate our lived experience within the temporal flow of past, present, and future that is history. Within this historically bankrupt culture, representations of history in whatever medium - cinema, television, print - most often become mere fashion, the quotation of past styles devoid of historical gravitas. Against this, Past Performance: American Theatre and the Historical Imagination argues that many contemporary American theatre and performance artists are not only developing innovative strategies ... Read more
In this age of overweening global capital and omnipresent electronic media, many critics have diagnosed western culture as suffering from a kind of historical obliviousness, a mass inability to situate our lived experience within the temporal flow of past, present, and future that is history. Within this historically bankrupt culture, representations of history in whatever medium - cinema, television, print - most often become mere fashion, the quotation of past styles devoid of historical gravitas. Against this, Past Performance: American Theatre and the Historical Imagination argues that many contemporary American theatre and performance artists are not only developing innovative strategies ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
287
Condition
New
Number of Pages
287
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611482577
SKU
V9781611482577
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About Roger Bechtel
Roger Bechtel is director of graduate studies for the Department of Theatre at Miami University, Ohio.
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