Theatre, sacrifice, ritual : exploring forms of political theatre /

• Main Author: Fischer - Lichte, Erika 1943- (συγγραφέας)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.
• Subjects: Θεάματα, Τα; Εορτασμοί; Τελετουργίες και τελετές; Συλλογική ταυτότητα; Φασισμός; Σιωνισμός; Σοβιετική Ένωση

"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 anal...

Table of Contents:

• 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.