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Institutional theatrics : performing arts policy in post-wall Berlin / Brandon Woolf.
Van Pelt Library PN2044.G4 W66 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Woolf, Brandon, author.
- Series:
- Performance works
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Performing arts--Government policy--Germany--Berlin.
- Performing arts.
- Theater and society--Germany--Berlin.
- Theater and society.
- Berlin (Germany)--Cultural policy.
- Berlin (Germany).
- Cultural policy.
- Germany--Berlin.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 268 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- "Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, political and economic agendas in the reunified German capital have worked to dismantle the state-subsidized stage. Institutional Theatrics charts the ways artists have reimagined the theater in response to these crises"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction. Arts of Institutional Dis/avowal: Putting Performance into Policy Studies
- "Is There a Cultural Policy?": Debating the Demise of the State-Stage Complex
- Frank Castorf's Lehrstück: Refunctioning Brecht's Institutional Legacy at the VolksbuÌ⁸hne
- Haunted Infrastructures of Public Memory: Performing the Many Facades of the Palast der Republik
- Occupying the Immaterial Institution; or, Performing Policy Postdramatically: andcompany&Co.'s (Coming) Insurrection
- Epilogue Dis/avowing Dis/avowal?: Dercon Debacle Redux.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780810143562
- 9780810143555
- 0810143550
- 0810143569
- OCLC:
- 1198556766
- Publisher Number:
- 99995763565
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