Global Changes - Local Stages : How Theatre Functions in Smaller European Countries.
Title:
Global Changes - Local Stages : How Theatre Functions in Smaller European Countries.
Author:
van Maanen, Hans.
ISBN:
9789042026131
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (538 pages)
Series:
Themes in Theatre - Collective Approaches to Theatre and Performance., 5 ; v.5
Themes in Theatre - Collective Approaches to Theatre and Performance., 5
Contents:
Contents -- Editors' Preface -- About the Contributors -- Part 1: The Effects of Social Changes on Theatre Fields -- Introduction -- 1 National Theatres and the Construction of Identity in Smaller European Countries -- 2 The Interaction of Theatre and Society: The Example of Estonia -- 3 Between Inertia and Cultural Terrorism: Slovenian Theatre in Times of Crisis and Change -- 4 Changes in the Hungarian Theatre System -- 5 National Identity Embedded in an International Art Form: The Role of Opera in Estonian Culture -- 6 Internationalization and the Irish State's Relationship with Theatre and Opera -- Part 2: Values in Theatre Politics -- Introduction -- 7 Artistic Diversity as a Political Objective -- 8 Becoming a Performing Arts Institution in Estonia -- 9 Arts Planning in the Irish Theatre: A Cautionary Tale -- 10 Functioning of the Performing Arts in Urban Society: Political Views on Artistic Experience -- 11 Artist or Manager: Who Should Lead the Swiss City Theatres? -- Part 3: Localization of Theatrical Values -- Introduction -- 12 Theatre and the Discourse on Subsidization -- 13 From Review to Preview: A Process of Rationalization in Mediating Theatre? -- 14 Changing Frames of Social Spaces on the Hungarian Stage -- 15 The Internationalization of Slovenian National Theatre Between 1989 and 1996: The SevenYears of Pandur Theatre -- 16 How Theatre Buildings Condition the Realization of Values for Local Audiences -- 17 How Theatrical Events Determine Theatre's Functioning in Society -- Epilogue -- 18 STEP on Stage: Studying Theatre Systems in Glocal Contexts.
Abstract:
Global Changes - Local Stages investigates the relationships between what happened the last twenty years on the 'world stage' and how theatre life developed on the local level. The subject has been approached from three different angles, each covered by one part of the book: "The Effects of Social Changes on Theatre Fields", "Values in Theatre Politics" and "Localization of Theatrical Values". The group of authors tries to find the links between these three areas.The book profits from the fact that the authors come from two sides of the former 'Wall'. Twenty years after its fall, the transitional processes in countries of the former 'Eastern Bloc' can be compared, not only mutually, but also with the changes in the Western part of Europe. With its 537 pages Global Changes - Local Stages is the most extensive research of the possible relationships between cultural change, theatre politics and theatre life in smaller European countries.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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