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New Deal Theater: The Vernacular Tradition in American Political Theater Hardcover - 2008

by I. Saal


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New Deal Theater recovers a much ignored model of political theater for cultural criticism.While considered to be less radical in its aesthetics and politics than its celebrated Weimar and Soviet cousins, it nonetheless proved to be highly effective in asserting cultural critique. In this regard it offers a vital alternative to the dominant modernist paradigm developed in Europe. Rather than radicalizing content and form, New Deal theater insisted that the political had to be made commensurable with the language of a mass audience steeped in consumer culture.The resulting vernacular praxis emphasized empathy over alienation, verisimilitude over abstraction. By examining the cultural vectors that shaped this theater, Saal shows why it was more successful on the American stage than its European counterpart and develops a theory of vernacular political theater which can help us think of the political in art in other than modernist terms.

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  • Title New Deal Theater: The Vernacular Tradition in American Political Theater
  • Author I. Saal
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 232
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Palgrave MacMillan
  • Date 2008-07-03
  • ISBN 9781403978011 / 1403978018
  • Weight 1.01 lbs (0.46 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.69 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 1.75 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
    • Interdisciplinary Studies: Pop Culture
  • Library of Congress subjects American drama - 20th century - History and, Politics and literature - United States -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009277015
  • Dewey Decimal Code 812.520

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Ilka Saal teaches Drama & Theater and American Studies at the University of Richmond.
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