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050 00 $aPN2051$b.A75 2018
082 04 $a792.013$223
100 1 $aArjomand, Minou,$eauthor.
245 10 $aStaged :$bshow trials, political theater, and the aesthetics of judgment /$cMinou Arjomand.
264 1 $aNew York :$bColumbia University Press,$c[2018]
300 $axv, 232 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"No one uses the term "show trial" as a compliment: we usually understand theater as antithetical to the workings of justice. But after the Second World War, directors and playwrights like Bertolt Brecht, Erwin Piscator, Peter Weiss, and Arthur Miller sought to claim a new public role for theater by restaging trials as shows. In the two decades after the War, the Moscow show trials, Nuremberg trials, House Un-American Activities Committee hearings, the Frankfurt Auschwitz trial, and the Eichmann trial were all turned into plays. Why re-stage these trials within a theater? How can the stage represent atrocity and narrate histories of oppression differently than a courtroom? And, finally, how do the processes of aesthetic judgment change an audience's understanding of justice? To answer these questions, Staged combines extensive archival research into performances of postwar documentary theater with a critical reading of Hannah Arendt's political and aesthetic philosophy, addressing at the same time broader debates within critical theory about the relationship between aesthetics and politics"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aShow trials and political theatre -- Hannah Arendt : judging in dark times -- Bertolt Brecht : poetic justice -- Erwin Piscator : theatre after Auschwitz -- Trials in Nuremberg -- Archives, law, and theatre today.
650 0 $aTheater$xPolitical aspects.
650 0 $aLegal drama$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aPolitical plays$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aAesthetics$xPolitical aspects.
650 7 $aAesthetics$xPolitical aspects.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00798712
650 7 $aLegal drama.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01199251
650 7 $aPolitical plays.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01069480
650 7 $aTheater$xPolitical aspects.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01149276
655 7 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411635
852 00 $bglx$hPN2051$i.A75 2018