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New Deal theater :

1403978018

9781403978011

b741087

New Deal theater :

[Book]

the vernacular tradition in American political theater /

Ilka Saal.

First edition.

New York :

Palgrave Macmillan,

2007.

232 pages ;

22 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Brecht on Broadway: reconsidering political theater -- Disjunctive aesthetics: a genealogy of political theater -- Strike songs: working- and middle-class revolutionaries -- Plays of cash and cabbages: from proletarian melodrama to revolutionary realism -- Why sing skies above?: labor musicals and living newspapers -- Toward postmodernism: the political theater of the 1960s.

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"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 cultural vectors that shaped this theater, Saal shows why it was more successful on the American stage than its European counterpart and develops a theory of vernacular political theater which can help us think of the political in art in other than modernist terms."--Jacket.

American drama-- 20th century-- History and criticism.

Political plays, American-- History and criticism.

Politics and literature-- United States-- History-- 20th century.

Theater-- Political aspects-- United States-- 20th century.

American drama.

Drama

DRAMA-- American.

Kulturkritik

Literary studies: general.

Political plays, American.

Political science & theory.

Politics and Government.

Politics and literature.

Politik-- Theater-- USA.

Politisches Theater

Politisches Theater.

Theater-- Political aspects.

Theater-- Politik-- USA.

United States.

USA

USA.

USA.

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Saal, Ilka

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