Hans van Maanen

Hans van Maanen schetst een geschiedenis van de toneelwereld, niet van het toneel. De productie van toneel speelt in die wereld natuurlijk een zeer belangrijke rol, maar de aandacht gaat vooral uit naar de verandering van distributie van theater door de jaren heen. Ook de rol van de overheid - die onophoudelijk probeert de ontwikkelingen te volgen of beheersbaar te houden - wordt belicht. De auteur behandelt de geschiedenis van het toneelbestel op analytische wijze en besteedt daarnaast aandacht aan de belangrijkste knelpunten van het hedendaagse bestel: het kwaliteitsprobleem, de participatiekwestie en het legitimeringsvraagstuk.

Het Nederlandse toneelbestel van 1945 tot 1995

Hub Hermans

W. E. Krul

European Theatre in Turmoil : Meaning and Significance of the Theatre a Hundred Years Ago

1894

Hans van Maanen is professor of art and society at the Department of Arts, Culture & Media Studies of the University of Groningen, the Netherlands.

On the Societal Functioning of Aesthetic Values

How to Study Art Worlds

S. E. Wilmer

Theatre Worlds in Motion aims to clarify the different theatre traditions and practices in Western Europe from a historical and sociological perspective. The book grew out of a perceived need among theatre scholars who had recognised that, while they understood the theatre system of their own country, they often found it difficult to discover how it compared with other countries. The chapters analyse the basic components and dynamics of theatre systems in seventeen Western European nations in order to elucidate how the systems function in general and how they vary in different cultures. The book provides a sense of what has been happening recently in particular countries, and indicates how the theatre systems have developed over time and have led to the current practices and structures. Each national chapter considers the historical tradition and place of theatre within the country and analyses the role of the state in fostering theatre during the last fifty years. Material from the national chapters has been used in two general chapters at the beginning and end of the book to provide an overview to developments in all Western Europe. The introductory chapter on decentralisation discusses the tendency amongst governments to encourage cultural development outside the national capital by providing subsidy for regional theatre venues and theatre companies and, in many cases, by developing the decision-making and budgetary powers for the theatre to regional and local authorities. The epilogue on the functioning of theatre examines the common structures of theatre in society as described in the seventeen national chapters, and it proposes areas for future research.

Structures, Politics and Developments in the Countries of Western Europe

Theatre Worlds in Motion

Andreas Kotte

Anneli Saro

Global Changes - Local Stages investigates the relationships between what happened the last twenty years on the ‘world stage’ and how theatre life developed on the local level. The subject has been approached from three different angles, each covered by one part of the book: “The Effects of Social Changes on Theatre Fields”, “Values in Theatre Politics” and “Localization of Theatrical Values”. The group of authors tries to find the links between these three areas. The book profits from the fact that the authors come from two sides of the former ‘Wall’. Twenty years after its fall, the transitional processes in countries of the former ‘Eastern Bloc’ can be compared, not only mutually, but also with the changes in the Western part of Europe. With its 537 pages Global Changes - Local Stages is the most extensive research of the possible relationships between cultural change, theatre politics and theatre life in smaller European countries.

How Theatre Functions in Smaller European Countries

Global Changes – Local Stages

John Tulloch

Vicki Ann Cremona

Willmar Sauter

Peter Eversmann

Theatrical Events. Borders, Dynamics and Frames is written to develop the concept of 'Eventness' in Theatre Studies. The book as a whole stresses the importance of understanding theatre performances as aesthetic-communicative encounters of a wide range of agents and aspects. The Theatrical Event concept means not only that performers and spectators meet, but also that the specific mental sets, backgrounds and cultural contexts they bring in, strongly contribute to the character of a particular event. Moreover, this concept gives space to the study of the role societal developments - such as technological, political, economical or educational ones - play in theatrical events.

Borders, Dynamics, Frames

Theatrical Events

Global Changes - Local Stages investigates the relationships between what happened the last twenty years on the 'world stage' and how theatre life developed on the local level. The subject has been approached from three different angles, each covered by one part of the book: “The Effects of Social Changes on Theatre Fields”, “Values in Theatre Politics” and “Localization of Theatrical Values”. The group of authors tries to find the links between these three areas.The book profits from the fact that the authors come from two sides of the former 'Wall'. Twenty years after its fall, the transitional processes in countries of the former 'Eastern Bloc' can be compared, not only mutually, but also with the changes in the Western part of Europe. With its 537 pagesGlobal Changes - Local Stages is the most extensive research of the possible relationships between cultural change, theatre politics and theatre life in smaller European countries.

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