Output details
35 - Music, Drama, Dance and Performing Arts
Queen Mary University of London
Book title
Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love
Type
A - Authored book
DOI
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Publisher of book
University of Michigan Press (Ann Arbor, MI)
ISBN of book
0472119079
Year of publication
2013
URL
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Number of additional authors
0
Additional information
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Interdisciplinary
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Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
Yes
Double-weighted statement
Passionate Amateurs argues that theatre in modern capitalism can help us think afresh about work, time and freedom. Its title concept is a theoretical and historical figure, someone whose work in theatre is undertaken within capitalism, but motivated by a love which desires something different. The development of this figure and the arguments it enables has involved (1) sustained engagement over a period of seven years with core research materials (in three languages), (2) substantial historical synthesis to connect modern theatre to classical (Greek) and romantic (German) ideas and practices, (3) deep reading of key philosophical work (Benjamin, Nancy, Rancière).
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
No
English abstract
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