TY  - THES
A1  - Oliveira, Alexandra Marinho de
T1  - Bertolt Brecht and theatre photography: aesthetic and political involvement
N2  - The subject of this dissertation is the aesthetic and political significance of photography for Bertolt Brecht's theatrical work and writing. Since the investigation of the gestus concept from the perspective of the politics of images—which draws attention to the fact that every image has a memory, mostly a political one—photography stands out and reveals the precise moment of the interruption of the dramatic action and, thereby, holds a significant gestus. The dissertation highlights the importance of photography’s examination for Brecht, besides featuring the extent to which his theatre responded to and dealt with the technical condition of its own time. If a gestus is recognisable as an interruption, through the observation of the detail, two different gestus appear: the gestus of the scene and the gestus of the photograph. In other words, the actor and photographer produce a double gestus with different levels of interpretation. The comparison between such a static photo and the notion of interruption in Bertolt Brecht’s works opens new grounds in Brechtian studies, and even in more general theatre studies.
KW  - theatre
KW  - photography
KW  - Bertolt Brecht
Y1  - 2019
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/51672
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-516721
CY  - Frankfurt am Main
ER  -