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Theatre in market economies /

"Theatre in Market Economies explores the complex relationship between theatre and the market economy during roughly the past two decades in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, and the United States. It takes an interdisciplinary, materialist approach that draws on political economy, geography...

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Main Authors: McKinnie, Michael
Published: Cambridge University Press,
Publisher Address: Cambridge, United Kingdom :
Publication Dates: 2021.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Theatre and performance theory
Subjects:
Capitalism and theater.
Theater > Political aspects > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Theater > Political aspects > Canada > History > 20th century.
Theater > Political aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Theater and society > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Theater and society > Canada > History > 20th century.
Theater and society > United States > History > 20th century.
Theater and society.
Theater > Political aspects.
Canada.
Great Britain.
United States.
History.
Summary: "Theatre in Market Economies explores the complex relationship between theatre and the market economy during roughly the past two decades in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, and the United States. It takes an interdisciplinary, materialist approach that draws on political economy, geography, and cultural theory, to reveal a theatre that is increasingly taking up the mission of the "mixed economy": to combine economic efficiency with social security, while promoting liberal democracy. Theatre's assumption of this mantle has happened during much the same time as the purchase of social democracy and the centre-left have declined within electoral politics and the tools of the welfare state have been used to regulate ever more closely the lives of citizens rather than the operations of markets. Through a wide-ranging analysis of theatrical working practices, institutions, environments, and ideologies, Theatre in Market Economies explores the intimate and ambiguous relationship between theatre and the market economny, onstage and off. It depicts a theatre that is not only a familiar cultural institution but is, in many ways, an exemplary political economic one as well"--
Carrier Form: x, 203 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9781107000391
1107000394
Index Number: PN2041
CLC: J80-05
Call Number: J80-05/M158
Contents: Introduction: Show Business -- 1 Industry -- 2 Productivity -- 3 Citizenship -- 4 Security -- 5 Confidence

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