Street Scenes

Street Scenes
Author :
Publisher : Intellect (UK)
Total Pages : 248
Release :
ISBN-10 : UOM:39015059224413
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 ( Downloads)

Book Synopsis Street Scenes by : Nicolas Whybrow

Download or read book Street Scenes written by Nicolas Whybrow and published by Intellect (UK). This book was released on 2005 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Always the focal point in modern times for momentous political, social and cultural upheaval, Berlin has continued, since the fall of the Wall in 1989, to be a city in transition. As the new capital of a reunified Germany it has embarked on a journey of rapid reconfiguration, involving issues of memory, nationhood and ownership. Bertolt Brecht, meanwhile, stands as one of the principal thinkers about art and politics in the 20th century. The "Street Scene" model, which was the foundation for his theory of an epic theatre, relied precisely on establishing a connection between art's functioning and everyday life. His preoccupation with the ceaselessness of change, an impulse implying rupture and movement as the key characteristics informing the development of a democratic cultural identity, correlates resonantly with the notion of an ever-evolving city. Premised on an understanding of performance as the articulation of movement in space, Street Scenes interrogates what kind of "life" is permitted to "flow" in the "new Berlin." Central to this method is the flaneur figure, a walker of streets who provides detached observations on the revealing "detritus of modern urban existence." Walter Benjamin, himself a native of Berlin as well as friend and seminal critic of Brecht, exercised the practice in exemplary form in his portrait of the city One-Way Street. Street Scenes offers various points of entry for the reader, including those interested in: theatre, performance, visual art, architecture, theories of everyday life and culture, and the politics of identity. Ultimately, it is an interdisciplinary book, which strives to establish the 'porosity' of areas of theory and practice rather than hard boundaries.


Street Scenes Related Books

Street Scenes
Language: en
Pages: 248
Authors: Nicolas Whybrow
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher: Intellect (UK)

GET EBOOK

Always the focal point in modern times for momentous political, social and cultural upheaval, Berlin has continued, since the fall of the Wall in 1989, to be a
Inner City Romance
Language: en
Pages: 209
Authors: Guy Colwell
Categories: Comics & Graphic Novels
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-02-22 - Publisher: Fantagraphics Books

GET EBOOK

Guy Colwell’s 1970s underground comic book series Inner City Romance tread new territory: it was filled with stories about prison, black culture, ghetto life,
Vintage Tampa Signs and Scenes
Language: en
Pages: 132
Authors: John V. Cinchett
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

GET EBOOK

During the 1950s, the Cinchett Neon Sign Company came to be Tampa's best-known sign maker. When the city planned to build a zoo, the mayor asked Cinchett to des
Scenes from the City
Language: en
Pages: 337
Authors: James Sanders
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-03-04 - Publisher: Rizzoli Publications

GET EBOOK

Scenes from the City: Filmmaking in New York is a celebration of the rise of New York-shot films, particularly after the Mayor's Office of Film, Theatre and Bro
If Beale Street Could Talk (Movie Tie-In)
Language: en
Pages: 210
Authors: James Baldwin
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-10-30 - Publisher: Vintage

GET EBOOK

A stunning love story about a young Black woman whose life is torn apart when her lover is wrongly accused of a crime—"a moving, painful story, so vividly hum