Title Theatre in market economies / Michael McKinnie

Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021 ©2021

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Description 1 online resource (x, 203 pages) : illustrations (some color) Series Theatre and performance theory Theatre and performance theory. Contents Introduction : show business -- Industry -- Productivity -- Citizenship -- Security -- Confidence -- Conclusion Summary "Theatre in Market Economies explores the complex relationship between theatre and the market economy since the 1990s. Bringing together research from the arts and social sciences, the book proposes that theatre has increasingly taken up the mission of the 'mixed economy' by seeking to combine economic efficiency with social security while promoting liberal democracy. McKinnie situates this analysis within a wider context, in which the welfare state's tools have been used to regulate, ever more closely, the lives of citizens rather than the operations of markets. In the process, the book invites us to think in new ways about longstanding economic and political problems in and through the theatre: the nature of industry, productivity, citizenship, security and economic confidence. Theatre in Market Economies depicts a theatre that is not only a familiar cultural institution but is, in unexpected and often ambiguous ways, an exemplary political-economic one as well."-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Michael McKinnie is Senior Lecturer in Drama at Queen Mary, University of London (United Kingdom). He is the author of City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City (University of Toronto Press, 2007), and his work has appeared, among other places, in Theatre Journal, Modern Drama, Theatre Research in Canada/Recherches théâtrales au Canada, Contemporary Theatre Review, Essays on Canadian Writing, and Canadian Theatre Review. He has also served as reviews editor for Modern Drama Print version record Subject Capitalism and theater. Theater -- Political aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century Theater -- Political aspects -- Canada -- History -- 20th century Theater -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century Theater and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century Theater and society -- Canada -- History -- 20th century Theater and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century Capitalism and theater Theater and society Theater -- Political aspects Canada Great Britain United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2020039521 ISBN 9780511722257 0511722257 9781009038447 1009038443

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