开始时间: 04/22/2022 持续时间: 6 weeks
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所在平台: CourseraArchive 课程类别: 人文 大学或机构: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)(慕尼黑大学) 授课老师： Christopher Balme |
课程主页: https://www.coursera.org/course/globaltheatre
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In this course we will discuss how theatre, a European cultural practice, spread rapidly around the world in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The modules will engage with both theoretical and historical perspectives on what is a relatively new area of theatrical research. Globalisation is a highly controversial concept that has provoked extreme reactions. It also tends to be discussed as a phenomenon post-dating the end of the Cold War in 1989. In this course we will argue that globalization, even as we understand it today, in fact goes back at least to the mid- to late 19th century when the existence of colonial empires created the conditions for mass migration, the rapid transportation of goods and people, the invention of new technologies such as steam shipping, railways and telegraphy, which all helped to facilitate the spread of theatre. We will engage with research that has emerged in the context of global and transnational history and apply these findings to theatre. We will look at how certain plays, operas and ballets quite literally went global. We will look at theatre buildings, at the cosmopolitan audiences that emerged as well as the actors, agents and managers who facilitated the movement of theatre around the world. The final two modules will focus on the post-1945 and 1989 developments, each of which represent globalisation of different kinds.
Week one: Introductions with definitions of 'theatre' and 'globalization'; cenceptualizing 'global theatre histories'; overview of online resources for researching the history of theatre during the late 19th and 20th centuries.
Week two: Theatre on the Move; how we can relate migration and mobility to the dissemination of theatre.
Week three: Actors, Managers, and Theatrical Agents; with a focus on the people who organized the global
migration of theatre.
Week four: Theatre Buildings as 'Cultural Hubs' and 'Contact Zones'; methodologies and concepts for approaching theatres as places where different people, languages, and cultures met and exchanged.
Week five: Theatre and the Cold War; theatre as a site of the rivalry
between
East and West.
Week six: Festivals, Megamusicals, and Livestreaming; how contemporary types of theatre reflect globalization and new technologies.
Learn how theatre and globalization have affected each other over the past century, and how to conduct your own research on global theatre histories.
