Bertolt Brechts Adaptations And Anticapitalist Aesthetics Today 1st Edition Anthony Squiers by Anthony Squiers 9789004721876, 9789004721869, 9004721878, 900472186X instant download after payment.

This book examines Brecht’s theory and method of adaptation. It first reconstructs it into a single framework using four key Brechtian concepts: Fabel, gestus, estrangement effects, and historicizing. It then uses that framework to analyse four Brechtian adaptations: The Tutor, Don Juan, “Socrates Wounded,” and Kriegsfibel. It argues that adaptation occupies a previously unrealised central place in Brecht’s thought, demonstrating that he provides us with a unique way to think about adaptation—as material transformation. It concludes by describing how Brecht is useful for anti-capitalist aesthetics today because through him one can foster a new consciousness which enables better social conditions to be created. This book is practical for both theatre practitioners and artists as well as theorists.

Anthony Squiers is a faculty member at AMDA College of the Performing Arts and co-editor of E-CIBS, the performance journal of the International Brecht Society. He is author of An Introduction to the Social and Political Philosophy of Bertolt Brecht.

Anthony Squiers' new monograph offers an excellent and long overdue overview of Brecht's theories and methods of adaptation. Squiers detailed analyses... elucidate not only Brecht's wide-ranging adaptation practice but also the utility of these techniques for a Marxist aesthetic today.

- Markus Wessendorf, President of the International Brecht Society

Anthony Squiers's ground-breaking study shows that Brecht's adaptations are central to his oeuvre [and] have continuing relevance to the creation of anti-capitalist art in our time.

- Barbara Foley, Professor Emeritus, Rutgers University - Newark