New Deal Theater : The Vernacular Tradition in American Political Theater /

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...

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Main Author: Saal, Ilka (Author)
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Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
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