The Nation's Image: French Grand Opera as Politics and Politicized Art - Couverture souple

Fulcher, Jane

 
9780521529433: The Nation's Image: French Grand Opera as Politics and Politicized Art
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0521529433 ISBN 13 : 9780521529433
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2010

Synopsis

French grand opera, this book argues, was a different and more complex kind of theater than we ordinarily suppose. Focusing on the period of grand opera's rise, its dominance, and its final decline, Professor Fulcher shows that it was a subtly used tool of the state. Using the Opera's archives, she analyses the mechanism and goals of state intervention in the theatre and how these underwent subtle change. As she demonstrates, the official framework helped to shape not only the nature of artistic development, but also politicized the theatrical experience itself. Although concerned with the audience's understanding of the operas, this book is not narrowly a 'reception history'. Rather, it is an attempt to see the part played by grand opera in a specific social and cultural context - how it arose within larger structures and in turn reacted back finally upon them.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

French grand opera, this book argues, was a different and more complex kind of theater than we ordinarily suppose. Focusing on the period of grand opera's rise, its dominance, and its final decline, Professor Fulcher shows that it was a subtly used tool of the state. Using the Opera's archives, she analyses the mechanism and goals of state intervention in the theatre and how these underwent subtle change. As she demonstrates, the official framework helped to shape not only the nature of artistic development, but also politicized the theatrical experience itself. Although concerned with the audience's understanding of the operas, this book is not narrowly a 'reception history'. Rather, it is an attempt to see the part played by grand opera in a specific social and cultural context - how it arose within larger structures and in turn reacted back finally upon them.

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0521529433
ISBN 13 
9780521529433
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
290
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780521327749: The Nation's Image: French Grand Opera as Politics and Politicized Art

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ISBN 10 :  0521327741 ISBN 13 :  9780521327749
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1987
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