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dc.contributor.authorRidout, Nicholas
dc.date.accessioned2018-06-27 23:55
dc.date.accessioned2014-12-31 23:55:55
dc.date.accessioned2019-11-08 15:30:56
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-01T14:47:33Z
dc.date.available2020-04-01T14:47:33Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.identifier469366
dc.identifierOCN: 862373069en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/33465
dc.description.abstractPassionate Amateurs tells a new story about modern theater: the story of a romantic attachment to theater’s potential to produce surprising experiences of human community. It begins with one of the first great plays of modern European theater—Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya in Moscow—and then crosses the twentieth and twenty-first centuries to look at how its story plays out in Weimar Republic Berlin, in the Paris of the 1960s, and in a spectrum of contemporary performance in Europe and the United States. This is a work of historical materialist theater scholarship, which combines a materialism grounded in a socialist tradition of cultural studies with some of the insights developed in recent years by theorists of affect, and addresses some fundamental questions about the social function and political potential of theater within modern capitalism. Passionate Amateurs argues that theater in modern capitalism can help us think afresh about notions of work, time, and freedom. Its title concept is a theoretical and historical figure, someone whose work in theater is undertaken within capitalism, but motivated by a love that desires something different. In addition to its theoretical originality, it offers a significant new reading of a major Chekhov play, the most sustained scholarly engagement to date with Benjamin’s “Program for a Proletarian Children’s Theatre,” the first major consideration of Godard’s La chinoise as a “theatrical” work, and the first chapter-length discussion of the work of The Nature Theatre of Oklahoma, an American company rapidly gaining a profile in the European theater scene.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesTheater: Theory/Text/Performance
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATD Theatre studiesen_US
dc.subject.otherliterature
dc.subject.othertheatre studies
dc.subject.otherCapitalism
dc.subject.otherCommunism
dc.subject.otherKarl Marx
dc.titlePassionate Amateurs - Theatre, Communism and Love
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.3998/mpub.4537117
oapen.relation.isPublishedBye07ce9b5-7a46-4096-8f0c-bc1920e3d889
oapen.relation.isFundedByb818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9
oapen.relation.isbn9780472029594
oapen.collectionKnowledge Unlatched (KU)
oapen.imprintThe University of Michigan Press
oapen.pages216
oapen.place.publicationAnn Arbor, MI
oapen.grant.programKU Pilot
oapen.remark.publicRelevant Wikipedia pages: Capitalism - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism; Communism - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism; Karl Marx - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx
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peerreview.open.reviewNo
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peerreview.review.decisionYes
peerreview.review.stagePre-publication
peerreview.review.typeFull text
peerreview.reviewer.typeExternal peer reviewer
oapen.review.commentsThe proposal was selected by the acquisitions editor who invited a full manuscript. The full manuscript was reviewed by two external readers using a double-blind process. Based on the acquisitions editor recommendation, the external reviews, and their own analysis, the Executive Committee (Editorial Board) of U-M Press approved the project for publication.


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