Young Soviet Film Makers

Based on theatrical research of unusual depth and enterprise, Theatre as a Weapon (1986) shows how the workers' theatre of the 1920s and 1930s transformed the social function of theatre. Drawing largely on unpublished sources, it provides lively case studies of workers' theatre in the USSR, Germany and the United Kingdom.

List of contents

Part 1. We are the Blue Blouse: Workers’ Theatre in the USSR 1. The Roar of the Dynamo 2. From the Reformers to the Revolutionaries: Sources and Influences 3. Born of the Press Part 2. Hello! – State Power!: Workers’ Theatre in Germany 4. The Origins of German Agitprop 5. Agitate! A Movement Evolves 6. Propaganda – Coping with the Crisis 7. Towards a Popular Theatre Part 3. Theatre of Attack: Workers’ Theatre in Britain 8. From Luddite Melodrama to the Workers’ Theatre Movement 9. The Old World’s Crashing… 10. The Heyday of the WTM 11. Return to the Curtain Stage – the Decline of the WTM 12. Achievements and Weaknesses Part 4. Conclusion 13. Three Movements

About the author

Jeanne Vronskaya, Russian-born and based in England, was a well-known writer on the cinema.

Summary

Based on theatrical research of unusual depth and enterprise, Theatre as a Weapon (1986) shows how the workers’ theatre of the 1920s and 1930s transformed the social function of theatre. Drawing largely on unpublished sources, it provides lively case studies of workers’ theatre in the USSR, Germany and the United Kingdom.

Product details

• Authors: Jeanne Vronskaya, Vronskaya Jeanne
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.11.2024
• EAN: 9781032877792
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3287779-2
• No. of pages: 122
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: Soviet Society
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Media Studies, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Films, cinema, Political science & theory, Social and cultural history, Far-left political ideologies and movements, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, Marxism & Communism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Soviet, HISTORY / Russia / Soviet Era