| Author | : Gene A. Plunka |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 417 |
| Release | : 2012-04-24 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1137000619 |
Plunka argues that drama is the ideal art form to revitalize the collective memory of Holocaust resistance. This comparative drama study examines a variety of international plays - some quite well-known, others more obscure - that focus on collective or individual defiance of the Nazis.
| Author | : Gene A. Plunka |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 272 |
| Release | : 2012-04-24 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1137000619 |
Plunka argues that drama is the ideal art form to revitalize the collective memory of Holocaust resistance. This comparative drama study examines a variety of international plays - some quite well-known, others more obscure - that focus on collective or individual defiance of the Nazis.
| Author | : Rachel L. Einwohner |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 305 |
| Release | : 2022 |
| Genre | : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |
| ISBN | : 0190079436 |
Preface --Timeline of Important Events -- Studying Jewish Resistance -- Understanding Resistance: Theoretical Underpinnings -- Fighting for Honor in the Warsaw Ghetto -- Competing Visions in the Vilna Ghetto -- Hope and Hunger in the Łódź Ghetto -- Resistance: Past, Present, and Future -- Appendix: Data Sources.
| Author | : Inez Hedges |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 223 |
| Release | : 2021-09-28 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 3030840093 |
This book is a contribution to the emerging field of research-based performance, which seeks to gain a wider audience for issues that are crucial to our understanding of history and to informing our future actions. The book examines the role of theater in portraying the Shoah in France, the French Resistance, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Each of the three chapters consists of an original dramatic work by the author and an accompanying critical essay.
| Author | : Raul Hilberg |
| Publisher | : Harper Collins |
| Total Pages | : 362 |
| Release | : 1993-09-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0060995076 |
The man the New York Times has called "the preeminent scholar of the Holocaust" tells the stories of those who caused, experienced, and witnessed the great human catastrophe.
| Author | : Claude Schumacher |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 382 |
| Release | : 1998-09-24 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 9780521624152 |
'To portray the Holocaust, one has to create a work of art', says Claude Lanzmann, the director of Shoah. However, can the Holocaust be turned into theatre? Is it possible to portray on stage events that, by their monstrosity, defy human comprehension? These are the questions addressed by the playwrights and the scholars featured in this book. Their essays present and analyse plays performed in Israel, America, France, Italy, Poland and, of course, Germany. The style of presentation ranges from docudramas to avant-garde performances, from realistic impersonation of historical figures to provocative and nightmarish spectacles. The book is illustrated with original production photographs and some rare drawings and documents; it also contains an important descriptive bibliography of more than two hundred Holocaust plays.
| Author | : Gene A. Plunka |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 449 |
| Release | : 2009-04-02 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 1139477412 |
The Holocaust - the systematic attempted destruction of European Jewry and other 'threats' to the Third Reich from 1933 to 1945 - has been portrayed in fiction, film, memoirs, and poetry. Gene Plunka's study will add to this chronicle with an examination of the theatre of the Holocaust. Including thorough critical analyses of more than thirty plays, this book explores the seminal twentieth-century Holocaust dramas from the United States, Europe, and Israel. Biographical information about the playwrights, production histories of the plays, and pertinent historical information are provided, placing the plays in their historical and cultural contexts.
| Author | : J. Westgate |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 459 |
| Release | : 2014-10-15 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1137357681 |
Drawing on traditional archival research, reception theory, cultural histories of slumming, and recent work in critical theory on literary representations of poverty, Westgate argues that the productions of slum plays served as enactments of the emergent definitions of the slum and the corresponding ethical obligations involved therein.
