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100	1		_aShapiro, James S. _d1955- _4aut _0(DE-588)133366901 _9ddb_valid
245	1	0	_aThe playbook : _ba story of theater, democracy, and the making of a culture war / _cJames Shapiro.
264		1	_aNew York : _bPenguin Press, _c2024.
300			_axxii, 358 Seiten : _bIllustrationen ; _c24 cm.
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520	3		_a"A brilliant and daring account of a culture war over the place of theater in American democracy in the 1930s, one that anticipates our current divide, by the acclaimed Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro. From 1935 to 1939, the Federal Theatre Project staged over a thousand productions in 29 states that were seen by thirty million (or nearly one in four) Americans, two thirds of whom had never seen a play before. At its helm was an unassuming theater professor, Hallie Flanagan. It employed, at its peak, over twelve thousand struggling artists, some of whom, like Orson Welles and Arthur Miller, would soon be famous, but most of whom were just ordinary people eager to work again at their craft."
520	3		_a"It was the product of a moment when the arts, no less than industry and agriculture, were thought to be vital to the health of the republic, bringing Shakespeare to the public, alongside modern plays that confronted the pressing issues of the day--from slum housing and public health to racism and the rising threat of fascism. The Playbook takes us through some of its most remarkable productions, including a groundbreaking Black production of Macbeth in Harlem and an adaptation of Sinclair Lewis's anti-fascist novel It Can't Happen Here that opened simultaneously in 18 cities, underscoring the Federal Theatre's incredible range and vitality. But this once thriving Works Progress Administration relief program did not survive and has left little trace."
520	3		_a"For the Federal Theatre was the first New Deal project to be attacked and ended on the grounds that it promoted "un-American" activity, sowing the seeds not only for the McCarthyism of the 1950s but also for our own era of merciless polarization. It was targeted by the first House un-American Affairs Committee, and its demise was a turning point in American cultural life--for, as Shapiro brilliantly argues, "the health of democracy and theater, twin born in ancient Greece, have always been mutually dependent." A defining legacy of this culture war was how the strategies used to undermine and ultimately destroy the Federal Theatre were assembled by a charismatic and cunning congressman from East Texas, the now largely forgotten Martin Dies, who in doing so pioneered the right-wing political playbook now so prevalent that it seems eternal."
610	1	4	_aFederal Theatre Project (U.S.) / History
610	1	4	_aUnited States / Congress / House / Special Committee on Un-American Activities (1938-1944)
650		4	_aTheater and society / United States / History / 20th century
650		4	_aPolitics and literature / United States / History / 20th century
650		4	_aCulture conflict / United States
650		7	_aTheater _0(DE-588)4059702-7 _2gnd _9rswk-swf
650		7	_aPolitik _0(DE-588)4046514-7 _2gnd _9rswk-swf
650		7	_aDemokratie _0(DE-588)4011413-2 _2gnd _9rswk-swf
651		7	_aUSA _0(DE-588)4078704-7 _2gnd _9rswk-swf
653			_aFellow
653			_aGerhard Casper Fellow
653			_aClass of Spring 2024
655		4	_aInformational works
655		4	_aIllustrated works
776	0	8	_iErscheint auch als _nOnline-Ausgabe _zISBN 978-0-593-49021-1
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