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...
New Deal Theater recovers a much ignored model of political theater for cultural criticism. While considered to be less radical in its aesthetics and ...
This book analyzes the political theater of the 1930s, establishing its aesthetics as an important alternative to the dominant European modernist paradigm of the time.
This book analyzes the political theater of the 1930s, establishing its aesthetics as an important alternative to the dominant European modernist para...
This book investigates transnational processes through the analytic lens of cultural performance. It will be of great interest to scholars and students of American Studies, Performance Studies, and Transnational Studies.
This book investigates transnational processes through the analytic lens of cultural performance. It will be of great interest to scholars and student...
