Popular theatre and political Utopia in France, 1870—1940 : active citizens
- Submitting institution
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The University of Warwick
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Output identifier
- 7255
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN
- 9781137598554
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2017
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This monograph represents a wide-ranging assessment of the complex relationship between theatre and politics in modern France. It offers conceptual innovation, moving beyond a linear model of popular theatre as democratization towards an understanding of its importance as a space for dialogue between competing communities. Its contentions depend on a detailed, comparative analysis of state initiatives alongside those of anarchist, socialist, communist, regionalist, royalist, Catholic, and far-right movements, which required extensive archival work in both public and private collections over a six-year period. The book is proposed for double-weighting due to the breadth and depth of this research.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- As acknowledged on p. 304, one section of Chapter Seven is similar to a previously published article submitted for REF 2014: ‘Un Rire Nouveau: Action Française and the Art of Political Satire’, French History, 22.1 (2008), 74–93. Both the section and the article discuss Maurice Pujo’s theatrical theories and experiments for Action Française in 1907–8. The overlap, however, is relatively small (6,300 words out of a total of 120,700). The monograph chapter also makes an original contribution by discussing Action française initiatives within the broader development of right-wing theatre and film between 1900 and 1940.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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