Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-281) and indexes.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Prologue : Electra's transgressions -- Reconceptualizing theatre and ritual -- Re-inventing a people's theatre : Max Reinhardt's Theatre of the five thousand -- Re-inventing ritual : the Olympic Games -- Times of revolution, times of festival : the Soviet mass spectacles, 1917-1920 -- Producing the Volk community : the Thingspiel movement 1933-36 -- Towards the rebirth of a nation : American Zionist pageants 1932-1946 -- Bringing about a crisis -- The Bacchae : dismembering the text -- The rebirth of tragedy out of the chorus -- Epilogue : renouncing sacrifice.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"This innovative study of 20th century performative culture boldly examines the complexities of political theatre, propaganda and manipulation of the masses, and offers a revolutionary approach to the study of theatre and performance history. In offering both a performative and a semiotic analysis of such performances, Fischer-Lichte expertly demonstrates how theatre and ritual are fused in order to tackle the problem of community-building in societies characterized by loss of solidarity and disintegration, and exposes the provocative connection between the utopian visions of community they suggest, and the notion of sacrifice."--Jacket.
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Title
Theatre, sacrifice, ritual.
International Standard Book Number
9780415276757
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Pageants.
Theater.
20e siècle.
Identité collective.
Opferritus
Pageants.
Performance
Performance.
PERFORMING ARTS-- Reference.
Politiek theater.
Politik
Politisches Theater
Rite.
Ritual
Spectacle.
Theater
Theater.
Théâtre (Spectacle)
Théâtre-- aspects religieux.
Théâtre politique canadien de langue française-- Dictionnaires.