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War and Theatrical Innovation

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  • © 2017

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Editors:
  1. Victor Emeljanow

    1. University of Newcastle, Callaghan, Australia

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  • Addresses the interpenetration of theatrical practices and wartime strategies
  • Offers a broad view of the intersection between conflict and theatre, both temporally and geographically
  • Identifies key areas of change that affected performers, managements and audiences during wartime
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History (PSTPH)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvii
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  3. Propaganda Strategies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 61-61
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    2. Puppetry and the Spanish Civil War

      • Cariad Astles
      Pages 63-80

    3. Theatrical Propaganda and an Imagined West During the Korean War

      • Yuh-Jhung Hwang
      Pages 81-99

    4. The Biopolitics of ISIS’ Iconoclastic Propaganda

      • Gabriella Calchi-Novati
      Pages 101-118

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 199-210
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About this book

This book examines the relationship between wartime conflict and theatre practices. Bringing together a diverse collection of essays in one volume, it offers both a geographically and historically wide view of the subject, taking examples from Britain, Australia and America to the Middle East, Korea and China, and spanning the fifth century BCE to the present day. It explores the ways in which theatre practices have been manipulated for use in political and military propaganda, such as the employment of scenographers to work on camouflage and the application of acting methods in espionage training. It also maps the change in relationships between performers and audiences as a result of conflict, and the emergence of new forms of patronage during wartime theatre-going, boosting morale at periods when social structures and identity were being destabilized.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Newcastle, Callaghan, Australia

    Victor Emeljanow

About the editor

Victor Emeljanow is Emeritus Professor in the School of Creative Industries at the University of Newcastle, Australia, and General Editor of the e-journal Popular Entertainment Studies. He has published widely on subjects including the reception of Chekhov in Britain, the career of Theodore Kommisarjevsky, Beerbohm Tree's engagement with Ibsen on the West End, Victorian popular dramatists, and prisoner-of-war entertainments during the First and Second World Wars.

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