Redressing Absence: Mediatised Witnessing and the Reporting of the Balkan Conflict in Recent British Theatre

Geoff Willcocks

Redressing Absence: Mediatised Witnessing and the Reporting of the Balkan Conflict in Recent British Theatre

Geoff Willcocks

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Original language	English
Title of host publication	When the World Turned Upside-Down: Cultural Representations of Post-1989 Eastern Europe
Editors	Kathleen Starck
Place of Publication	Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Publisher	Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN (Print)	(10): 1-4438-0552-1, ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-0552-0
Publication status	Published - 2009

Bibliographical note

Author's note: Significance
This chapter began as a paper for the international conference War and Our World, held at Manchester University in July 2007. The chapter focuses on the unexplored trope in British theatre of the 1990s, which considered the ethics of war reporting, specifically, either explicitly or implicitly, within the Balkan Conflict of the 1990s. For two of the plays considered in this chapter – Chris Thorpe’s ‘Static’ and Peter Cann’s ‘Un-Earthed’, this chapter offers the first published academic criticism of these works.
Rigour
The chapter employs the methodology of close textual analysis within the theoretical framework of historicism. In addition much use is made of a rigorous historical and political contextualisation in order to facilitate the work’s analytical and interpretive framework.
Originality
As mentioned above this was the first work to academically engage with these plays and the exploration of the ethics of war reporting that they contain. This is the first academic work to consider the plays contained in this chapter. The chapter also contains original interview. Details of this book are at: http://www.c-s-p.org/flyers/978-1-4438-0552-0-sample.pdf

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Redressing Absence: Mediatised Witnessing and the Reporting of the Balkan Conflict in Recent British Theatre. / Willcocks, Geoff.
When the World Turned Upside-Down: Cultural Representations of Post-1989 Eastern Europe. ed. / Kathleen Starck. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

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