Search for dissertations about: "Political theatre"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 10 swedish dissertations containing the words Political theatre.

  2. 1. Playing Activists and Dancing Anarchists : Men and Masculinities in Cultural Performances in Contemporary Sweden

    Author : Dirk Gindt; Tiina Rosenberg; David Savran; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Cultural performances; theatrical event; theatricality; gender; men; masculinities; hegemonic masculinity; political demonstrations; prime minister Göran Persson; Sweden; Theatre; Teatervetenskap; teatervetenskap; Theatre Studies;

    Abstract : Playing Activists and Dancing Anarchists is a Ph.D. dissertation that aims to analyse men and masculinities in political demonstrations and similar manifestations by conceptualising and analytically approaching such cultural performances as theatrical events. READ MORE

  4. 2. Playing Activists and Dancing Anarchists : Men and Masculinities in Cultural Performances in Contemporary Sweden

    Author : Dirk Gindt; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; cultural performances; theatrical event; theatricality; gender; men; masculinities; hegemonic masculinity; political demonstrations; prime minister Göran Persson; Sweden; Theatre; Teatervetenskap; Gender studies; Genus;

    Abstract : Playing Activists and Dancing Anarchists is a Ph.D. dissertation that aims to analyse men and masculinities in political demonstrations and similar manifestations by conceptualising and analytically approaching such cultural performances as theatrical events. READ MORE

  5. 3. Suriashi as Experimental Pilgrimage in Urban and Other Spaces

    Author : Ami Skånberg Dahlstedt; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Suriashi; Slow Walking; Gendered Walking; Japanese dance; Nihon Buyō; Postmodern dance; Japanese theatre; Nō theatre; Practice-led research; Artistic research; Intercultural dance; pilgrimage; critical heritage; screendance;

    Abstract : This practice-led PhD-thesis draws on an existing Japanese movement practice called suriashi, which translates as sliding foot. Suriashi is a specific gender codified walking technique in classical Japanese dance and theatre, and an important method for acting on stage. READ MORE

  6. 4. Mediated Post-Soviet Nostalgia

    Author : Ekaterina Kalinina; Johan Fornäs; Staffan Ericsson; Vlad Strukov; Södertörns högskola; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; structure of feeling; nostalgia; memory; past; Russia; Post-Soviet; mediation; television; fashion; internet; theatre; museums; restaurants.; Kritisk kulturteori; Critical and Cultural Theory; Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning; Baltic and East European studies;

    Abstract : Post-Soviet nostalgia, generally understood as a sentimental longing forthe Soviet past, has penetrated deep into many branches of Russian popular culture in the post-1989 period. The present study investigates how the Soviet past has been mediated in the period between 1991 and 2012 as one element of a prominent structure of feeling in present-day Russian culture. READ MORE

  7. 5. Performing Power : The Political Masks of King Gustav III of Sweden (1771-1792)

    Author : Maria Berlova; Willmar Sauter; Roland Lysell; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Gustav III; theatricality; theatrical playing; staging; pageant; performative communication; Theatre Studies; teatervetenskap;

    Abstract : King Gustav III founded the Swedish National Theater and Opera, participated in the court theater as playwright, director and actor and he was rightly called the Theater King. The King’s passion for acting was perceived in the past as a psychological weakness, which won him the appellation of wimp (fjant). READ MORE