Author : Christopher B. Balme
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 28,8 MB
Release : 2014-06-12
Category : Drama
ISBN : 110700683X
The first in-depth study of theatre's relationship to the public sphere in a wide range of cultural and historical contexts.
Author : Professor Christopher Balme
Publisher :
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 31,25 MB
Release : 2014-07-03
Category : PERFORMING ARTS
ISBN : 9781316003367
The first in-depth study of theatre's relationship to the public sphere in a wide range of cultural and historical contexts.
Author : Christopher B. Balme
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 32,73 MB
Release : 2014-06-12
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1139991817
The concept of the public sphere, as first outlined by German philosopher Jürgen Habermas, refers to the right of all citizens to engage in debate on public issues on equal terms. In this book, Christopher B. Balme explores theatre's role in this crucial political and social function. He traces its origins and argues that the theatrical public sphere invariably focuses attention on theatre as an institution between the shifting borders of the private and public, reasoned debate and agonistic intervention. Chapters explore this concept in a variety of contexts, including the debates that led to the closure of British theatres in 1642, theatre's use of media, controversies surrounding race, religion and blasphemy, and theatre's place in a new age of globalised aesthetics. Balme concludes by addressing the relationship of theatre today with the public sphere and whether theatre's transformation into an art form has made it increasingly irrelevant for contemporary society.
Author : Katja Gvozdeva
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 42,39 MB
Release : 2016-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9004329765
In Dramatic Experience: The Poetics of Drama and the Early Modern Public Sphere(s) Katja Gvozdeva, Tatiana Korneeva, and Kirill Ospovat (eds.) focus on a fundamental question that transcends the disciplinary boundaries of theatre studies: how and to what extent did the convergence of dramatic theory, theatrical practice, and various modes of audience experience — among both theatregoers and readers of drama — contribute, during the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, to the emergence of symbolic, social, and cultural space(s) we call ‘public sphere(s)’? Developing a post-Habermasian understanding of the public sphere, the articles in this collection demonstrate that related, if diverging, conceptions of the ‘public’ existed in a variety of forms, locations, and cultures across early modern Europe — and in Asia.
Author : Árpád Szakolczai
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 38,9 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 041562391X
The book aims at reframing the discussion on the "public sphere," usually understood as the place where the public opinion is formed, through rational discussion. The aim of this book is to give an account of this rationality, and its serious shortcomings, examining the role of the media and the confusing of public roles and personal identity. It focuses in particular on the role of the theatrical and comical in the historical development of the public sphere, and in this manner reformulating definitions of common sense, personal identity, and culture.
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 19,96 MB
Release : 2022-12-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9004529810
Volume 1 of Theaters and Public Sphere in a Global and Digital Society inquires theatre, in all of its accepted meanings, in its relationship with society, institutions, cultural and local norms, and the collective imagination which these reveal.
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,81 MB
Release : 2022-12-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 900452617X
Volume 2 of Theaters and Public Sphere in a Global and Digital Society presents several qualitative and quantitative researches on the social roles of the theatre and performance, as organized institutions or social groups, in contemporary society.
Author : Katalin Cseh-Varga
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 49,21 MB
Release : 2018-02-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 1351757075
Performance Art in the Second Public Sphere is the first interdisciplinary analysis of performance art in East, Central and Southeast Europe under socialist rule. By investigating the specifics of event-based art forms in these regions, each chapter explores the particular, critical roles that this work assumed under censorial circumstances. The artistic networks of Yugoslavia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, East Germany and Czechoslovakia are discussed with a particular focus on the discourses that shaped artistic practice at the time, drawing on the methods of Performance Studies and Media Studies as well as more familiar reference points from art history and area studies.
Author : Sara Freeman
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 18,86 MB
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1443838616
Public Theatres and Theatre Publics presents sixteen focused investigations that connect theatre and performance studies with public sphere theory. The organizing critical lens of publics and publicness allows for the chapters to speak to one another other across time periods and geographies, inviting readers to think about how performing in public shapes and circulates concepts of identity, notions of taste or belonging, markers of class, and possibilities for political agency. Each essay presents a theorized case study that grapples with fundamental questions of how individuals perform in public contexts. The essays, written by a cross-section of prominent and emerging theatre and performance scholars, contribute new discussions and understandings of how theatre and performance work, as well as how publics, publicity, and modes of publicness have been constructed and contested over the last three centuries and in multiple national contexts including the US, Britain, France, Germany, Argentina and Egypt.
Author : Tatiana Korneeva
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 25,39 MB
Release : 2019-05-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1487532091
The Dramaturgy of the Spectator explores how Italian theatre consciously adjusted to the emergence of a new kind of spectator who became central to society, politics, and culture in the mid-seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The author argues that while a focus on spectatorship in isolation has value, if we are to understand the broader stakes of the relationship between the power structures and the public sphere as it was then emerging, we must trace step-by-step how spectatorship as a practice was rooted in the social and cultural politics of Italy at the time. By delineating the evolution of the Italian theatre public, as well as the dramatic innovations and communicative techniques developed in an attempt to manipulate the relationship between spectator and performance, this book pioneers a shift in our understanding of audience as both theoretical concept and historical phenomenon.
