2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Study of the influence of WW I on the French Theatre
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21520152
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Study of the arts/History of the arts/Arts in general
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| Research Institution | Osaka City University |
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Principal Investigator |
ODANAKA Akihiro 大阪市立大学, 大学院・文学研究科, 教授 (70224251)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2009 – 2011
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| Keywords | 表象文化論 / 演劇学 |
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| Research Abstract |
My research on the French theatre during World War I, which focused on the plays written and/or represented in wartime, revealed the following points :(1) theatre could no longer serve as an appropriate media for war propaganda ; conventional theatre, in which the verbal expression played a major role, found its inability of representing the modern warfare. As a result, the post war French theatre was driven to a more avant-garde, revolutionary form, threatened by the movie that then became a powerful competitor.(2) In the war propaganda theatre, just like in the real warfare, women and children were "mobilized"; it brought in the post war theatre such motifs as strong women and predilection for childish things.(3) The peculiarity of the wartime theatre in France ; as the French theatre had traditionally respected the "parole", there appeared a particular type of verse plays in which the authors seemed to exorcise the enemy by the incantation of words, thus recovering their cultural supremacy.
The above findings indicate WW I constitutes the real turning point in the development of the modern theatre because it brought a reflection both on form and object of theatrical expression. In addition, they ask us to reconsider such problems as how women and children are represented in the modern war propaganda theatre and how the modern warfare could be represented in the theatre.
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