Bertolt Brecht and theatre photography: aesthetic and political involvement
- 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.
Author: | Alexandra Marinho de Oliveira |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-516721 |
Place of publication: | Frankfurt am Main |
Referee: | Nikolaus Müller-SchöllGND, Jörn Etzold |
Advisor: | Nikolaus Müller-Schöll |
Document Type: | Doctoral Thesis |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2019/11/07 |
Year of first Publication: | 2018 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Granting Institution: | Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität |
Date of final exam: | 2019/06/26 |
Release Date: | 2019/11/21 |
Tag: | Bertolt Brecht; photography; theatre |
Page Number: | 213 |
HeBIS-PPN: | 455829535 |
Institutes: | Neuere Philologien |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 8 Literatur / 80 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft / 800 Literatur und Rhetorik |
Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
Licence (German): | Deutsches Urheberrecht |