Theater(s) and public sphere in a global and digital society : theoretical explorations / edited by Ilaria Riccioni.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Riccioni, Ilaria, 1968- editor.

E.J. Brill (Firm)

Series:

Studies in critical social sciences ; v. 235.

Studies in critical social sciences ; volume 235

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater and society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 215 pages) : illustrations (some color).

Other Title:

Theaters and public sphere in a global and digital society

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023]

Contents:

Half Title

Series Information

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

Chapter 1 Artistic Processes and Characteristics: Key Problems of the Sociology of the Theatre: In Dialogue with Pierre Bourdieu

Bibliography

Chapter 2 The Social and Political Impact of the Theatre in Contemporary Society

2.1 Introduction

2.1.1 What Holds Contemporary Society Together?

2.1.2 Art and Society

2.2 Importance of Theatre to the Social Fabric

2.2.1 Theoretical Premises

2.2.2 Theatre and Community Values

2.3 Theatre as a Social Institution

2.4 The Political Force of Performance

2.4.1 Theatre and the Public Sphere

2.4.2 Theatres as a Public Space

2.4.3 Theatre and Action between Social Construction and Deconstruction

2.5 Final Remarks

Chapter 3 Theatre at University as a Way to Increase the Sense

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Artistic Practices and Imagination Processes

3.3 Perspectives of Cultural Welfare

3.4 Cultural Welfare and Participation

Chapter 4 Staged Passages between Art and Everyday Life

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Artistic Performance as a Hybrid Medium

4.3 The Mediation of the Ephemeral

Chapter 5 Urban Environment, Places for Performance: A Groundbreaking Experience: Renato Nicolini and Estate Romana (1976-1985)

5.1 A Performative Turn in Urban History

5.2 From Settings to Settlements: Experiments in Rome

5.3 Towards a Site-Specific Performative Ecology

Chapter 6 The Theatre as the Stage of an Elusive Further Society

6.1 Foreword

6.2 Theatre as Stage

6.3 The Advent of Technology: Cinema

6.4 Performative Arts

6.5 Serialization and Target Viewers of Works

6.6 Conclusions

Chapter 7 Paris and Popular Theatre in Robert Michels: La foule and the Audience in the Years of Classical Sociology

7.1 Michels Rediscovered

7.2 Borders and Border Crossings

7.3 Le fait Social of the Popular Theatre

Chapter 8 The Undone Discipline: A Historical and Critical-Theoretical Account of the Sociology of the Theatre

8.1 Prologue: What about the Sociology of the Theatre?

8.2 Pioneers and Founding Fathers

8.3 Dissemination, Effervescence and Diversification

8.4 Epilogue: Where (and What) Is the Sociology of the Theatre?

Chapter 9 Theatre as Intersubjective Space for the Mediation of Collective Identity: Outline of a Psychoanalytic Perspective

9.1 Premise: Asking Not Whether, but How Theatre Impacts Society

9.2 The Importance of Emotional Engagement to Theatre's Social Role

9.3 Emotional Engagement and Its Inherent Unconscious Constituent

9.4 Interlude on Children's Play

9.5 Unconscious Intersubjectivity and Collective Identity at the Theatre

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Leiden, Netherlands Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 08, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Theater(s) and public sphere in a global and digital society.

ISBN:

9789004529816

9004529810

Publisher Number:

40031664000

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.