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02561aam a2200349 i 4500 001 DB0C2EAAE19111E89124B82197128E48 003 SILO 005 20181106010116 008 180817s2018 nyua b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2018008518 020 $a 0231184883 020 $a 9780231184885 035 $a (OCoLC)1035460965 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d CSH $d YDX $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PN2051 A75 2018 100 1 $a Arjomand, Minou, $e author. 245 10 $a Staged : $b show trials, political theater, and the aesthetics of judgment / $c Minou Arjomand. 264 1 $a New York : $b Columbia University Press, $c [2018] 300 $a xv, 232 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "No one uses the term "show trial" as a compliment: we usually understand theater as antithetical to the workings of justice. But after the Second World War, directors and playwrights like Bertolt Brecht, Erwin Piscator, Peter Weiss, and Arthur Miller sought to claim a new public role for theater by restaging trials as shows. In the two decades after the War, the Moscow show trials, Nuremberg trials, House Un-American Activities Committee hearings, the Frankfurt Auschwitz trial, and the Eichmann trial were all turned into plays. Why re-stage these trials within a theater? How can the stage represent atrocity and narrate histories of oppression differently than a courtroom? And, finally, how do the processes of aesthetic judgment change an audience's understanding of justice? To answer these questions, Staged combines extensive archival research into performances of postwar documentary theater with a critical reading of Hannah Arendt's political and aesthetic philosophy, addressing at the same time broader debates within critical theory about the relationship between aesthetics and politics"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Show trials and political theatre -- Hannah Arendt : judging in dark times -- Bertolt Brecht : poetic justice -- Erwin Piscator : theatre after Auschwitz -- Trials in Nuremberg -- Archives, law, and theatre today. 650 0 $a Theater $x Political aspects. 650 0 $a Legal drama $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Political plays $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Aesthetics $x Political aspects. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231021012620.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20220706020712.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=DB0C2EAAE19111E89124B82197128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search