Jeanne Vronskaya

Young Soviet Film Makers

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Based on theatrical research of unusual depth and enterprise, Theatre as a Weapon (1986) shows how the workers' theatre of the 1920s and 1930s transformed the social function of theatre. Drawing largely on unpublished sources, it provides lively case studies of workers' theatre in the USSR, Germany and the United Kingdom.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 126
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. November 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 361g
• ISBN-13: 9781032877792
• ISBN-10: 1032877790
• Artikelnr.: 71967568

Autorenporträt

Jeanne Vronskaya, Russian-born and based in England, was a well-known writer on the cinema.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1. We are the Blue Blouse: Workers' Theatre in the USSR 1. The Roar of
the Dynamo 2. From the Reformers to the Revolutionaries: Sources and
Influences 3. Born of the Press Part 2. Hello! - State Power!: Workers'
Theatre in Germany 4. The Origins of German Agitprop 5. Agitate! A Movement
Evolves 6. Propaganda - Coping with the Crisis 7. Towards a Popular Theatre
Part 3. Theatre of Attack: Workers' Theatre in Britain 8. From Luddite
Melodrama to the Workers' Theatre Movement 9. The Old World's Crashing...
10. The Heyday of the WTM 11. Return to the Curtain Stage - the Decline of
the WTM 12. Achievements and Weaknesses Part 4. Conclusion 13. Three
Movements