Choreographing the global in European cinema and theater
By: Katrin Sieg.
Series: Studies in European culture and history
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
Subjects: Globalization in motion pictures; Motion pictures -- Germany; Globalization in literature; German drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Description: "Increasingly the creative industries in Europe are harnessed to manage the social contradictions of globalization. In light of these trends, new modes of collectivity and transnational alliance have formed. This study explores the emergent forms of political theatre that resist both nationalist nostalgia and globalist enthusiasm and rests its focus on intentional relations, development. work, and war. Sieg explores European artists' critical engagement with the images and stories through which politicians and the media describe globalization and determines the impact of changes in these four areas on the democratic institutions and values that emerged in the era of nation states."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Europeanization, globalization, and the arts; title: Desiring the global : cinematic family affairs and international relations; title: Development and migration : the globalized woman comes to Neukölln; title: Traveling counterpublics : Pollesch @ Prater; title: Operation media storm : Elfriede Jelinek's theater of war.