Format:
XXII, 219 S
Edition:
1. publ., 1. ed.
ISBN:
9780230613140
Content:
"This book examines how violence was used as a spectacle in Cuban and Argentine theater in the late 1960s and early 1970s as a reflection of and a dialogue with the violence occurring in the public arena. Using the international affair of the Caso Padilla as a way to appreciate how the notion of revolutionary spectacle pertains to culture, Ford deftly examines the use of violence in four plays from Cuba and Argentina to understand how simulated violence was used as a tool to address the very real violence that was taking place offstage."--BOOK JACKET
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Preface : understanding the place of theater in Spanish America -- Introduction : difficult times : considering dramatic violence -- Who's afraid of Virgilio Piñera? : construction of violence through fear in Dos viejos pánicos (1968) -- The cobwebs of memory : history made with violence in Abelardo Estorino's La dolorosa historia del amor secreto de Don José Jacinto Milanés (1974) -- Filming the bourgeoisie : defining identity with violence in Eduardo Pavlovsky's La mueca -- Disorderly conduct: the violence of spectatorship in Griselda Gambaro's Información para extranjeros (1973) -- Conclusion : transforming spectacles.
Language:
English
Subjects:
Romance Studies
Keywords:
Kuba
;
Drama
;
Gewalttätigkeit
;
Argentinien
;
Geschichte 1968-1974
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