| War and Theatrical Innovation Softcover Repri Edition Contributor(s): Emeljanow, Victor (Editor) |
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ISBN: 134995635X ISBN-13: 9781349956357 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $123.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Theater - General |
| Dewey: 792 |
| Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History |
| Physical Information: 210 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book examines the relationship between wartime conflict and theatre practices. Bringing together a diverse collection of essays in one volume, it offers both a geographically and historically wide view of the subject, taking examples from Britain, Australia and America to the Middle East, Korea and China, and spanning the fifth century BCE to the present day. It explores the ways in which theatre practices have been manipulated for use in political and military propaganda, such as the employment of scenographers to work on camouflage and the application of acting methods in espionage training. It also maps the change in relationships between performers and audiences as a result of conflict, and the emergence of new forms of patronage during wartime theatre-going, boosting morale at periods when social structures and identity were being destabilized. |