Postgraduate Course: The Society of the Spectacle (ENLI11015)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course examines different kinds of theatres that declare political and social critique as their foremost reason of existence. The influence of predecessors like Russian Constructivism and Brecht will be studied. Also the sometimes tense, the sometimes creative relationships between these directly political forms of theatre and other avant-garde forms will be examined. During the sixties and seventies the European Situationists, the Happening of the USA and Europe proposed new ways of relating spectacle to political action. This legacy will be studied both within its own historical context, and as a source of influence on contemporary theatrical practitioners like Augusto Boal.
*This course is taught jointly with undergraduate students and consequently postgraduate places are limited |
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | Purchase of essential texts as required. |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
Course Delivery Information
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Learning Outcomes
To become aware of the parallels between political and theatrical movements.
To draw parallels between the European and the US avant-gardes.
To examine specific instances of theatrical projects in their broader contexts.
To be able to identify performance conventions.
To identify these issues within broader issues of cultural theory.
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
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| Special Arrangements |
PG Version |
| Keywords | TSotS |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Prof Olga Taxidou
Tel: (0131 6)50 3611
Email: Olga.Taxidou@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mr Gordon Littlejohn
Tel: (0131 6)50 3782
Email: Gordon.Littlejohn@ed.ac.uk |
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