CLEN W4722 - European Drama and Spectacle 18/19th Century

Institution:

Columbia University in the City of New York

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The invention of the modern self and the modern culture of spectacle in relation to (and in agonistic struggle with) the political and social upheavals of the 18th and 19th centuries. European theatre, performance, and visual culture (revolutionary street theatre, the fairground, boulevard, and puppet show, the birth of the circus and the zoo, the rise of celebrity culture, the rise of advertising, automatons, panoramas, and other forms of proto-cinema, opera, commedia dell'arte, melodrama, romantic spectacle, the social problem play, etc.) as the backdrop for thinking about revolution as performance, the human and the animal, acting and being, nature and nurture, passion and reason, the body and disembodied imagination, the real and the virtual, the commodity and the inalienable self (etc.), from the Enlightenment and the age of revolution, through the industrial revolution, to the brink of modernism. Texts include visual images, contemporary documents, and films, as well as English, French, Italian, and German plays and operas: those that were the most influential for modern drama (Mozart, Goethe, Schiller, Kleist, Büchner, Wagner, Ibsen, Shaw, etc.); and those that best capture the culture of popular spectacle during the period.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.columbia.edu

Phone Number:

(212) 854-1754

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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