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Watching War on the Twenty-First Century Stage - Spectacles of Conflict (Paperback)
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Watching War on the Twenty-First Century Stage - Spectacles of Conflict (Paperback)
Series: Methuen Drama Engage
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What do we watch when we watch war? Who manages public perceptions
of war and how? Watching War on the Twenty-First-Century Stage:
Spectacles of Conflict is the first publication to examine how
theatre in the UK has staged, debated and challenged the ways in
which spectacle is habitually weaponized in times of war. The
'battle for hearts and minds' and the 'war of images' are fields of
combat that can be as powerful as armed conflict. And today,
spectacle and conflict - the two concepts that frame the book -
have joined forces via audio-visual technologies in ways that are
more powerful than ever. Clare Finburgh's original and
interdisciplinary interrogation provides a richly provocative
account of the structuring role that spectacle plays in warfare,
engaging with the works of philosopher Guy Debord, cultural
theorist Jean Baudrillard, visual studies specialist Marie-Jose
Mondzain and performance scholar Hans-Thies Lehmann. She offers
coherence to a large and expanding field of theatrical war
representation by analyzing in detail a spectrum of works,
including expressionist drama, comedy and dance theatre. She
demonstrates how features unique to the theatrical art, namely the
construction of a fiction in the presence of the audience, can
present possibilities for a more informed engagement with how
spectacles of war are produced and circulated.
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