Fascism and theatre comparative studies on the aesthetics and politics of performance in Europe, 1925-1945

Since the 1920s, an endless flow of studies has analyzed the political systems of fascism, theseizure of power, the nature of the regimes, the atrocities committed, and, finally, the wars waged against other countries. However, much less attention has been paid to the strategies of persuasion employ...

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Other Authors: Berghaus, Günter (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York ; Oxford Berghahn 1996, ©1996
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Collection: DeGruyter MPG Collection - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Staging the nation's rebirth: the politics and aesthetics of performance in the context of fascist studies / Roger Griffin The Cultural politics of fascist governments / Reinhard Kühnl The Ritual core of fascist theatre: an anthropological perspective / Günter Berghaus The Theatre of politics in fascist Italy / Emilio Gentile The Organisation, fascistisation and management of theatre in Italy, 1925-1943 / Doug Thompson Theatre politics of the Mussolini régime and their influence on fascist drama / Pietro Cavallo Mussolini's 'theatre of the masses' / Mario Verdone Censorship in Nazi Germany: the influence of the Reich's Ministry of Propaganda on German theatre and drama, 1933-45 / Barbara Panse The Municipal theatre in Frankfurt-on-the-Main: the Nuremberg party rallies of the NSDAP / Hans-Ulrich Thamer The Theatre aesthetics of the falange / Sultana Wahnón Theatre and falangism at the beginning of the Franco régime / Francisco Linares Competing together in fascist Europe: sport in early Francoism / John London Jacques Copeau and 'popular theatre' in Vichy France / Serge Added Towards an aesthetic of fascist opera / Erik Levi.