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On the Difficulty of Putting Politics in Charge

On the Difficulty of Putting Politics in Charge Several methods were used to undercut these evasions: Undercutting the ideological speech through its own content: Considered quite baldly, in its brevity and schematism, the ideology tends to destroy itself; it is too much of a lie not to be seen as such. This can be the result of too-blatant cynicism (boss to workers: Think o f me as your father), or of a blunder (the young engineer going so far as to say that progress brings layoffs and unemployment). Undercutting the ideological speech through factual speech: Throughout the montage, an announcer, by narrating certain un-representedevents as a comment on what i s represented, unmasks the ideology by describing the reality which it attempts to cover UP. Undercutting the ideological speech through action: Exaggeration: I n the agit-prop tradition, the actors are not afraid to make fun of their characters: through the rendering of a gesture or an intonation, the inanity of what is said reveals itself. The scenic metaphor: Here the speech is no longer undercut by a gesture but by a whole action: the boss, bringing his functionaries to speak before the workers, drags them in by a cord around their necks (these "collaborators" are merely http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Theater Duke University Press

On the Difficulty of Putting Politics in Charge

Theatre Universitaire de Nancy,
Theater , Volume 2 (3) – Dec 1, 1969
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Duke University Press
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Copyright 1969 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre
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0161-0775
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1527-196X
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10.1215/00440167-2-3-43
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Several methods were used to undercut these evasions: Undercutting the ideological speech through its own content: Considered quite baldly, in its brevity and schematism, the ideology tends to destroy itself; it is too much of a lie not to be seen as such. This can be the result of too-blatant cynicism (boss to workers: Think o f me as your father), or of a blunder (the young engineer going so far as to say that progress brings layoffs and unemployment). Undercutting the ideological speech through factual speech: Throughout the montage, an announcer, by narrating certain un-representedevents as a comment on what i s represented, unmasks the ideology by describing the reality which it attempts to cover UP. Undercutting the ideological speech through action: Exaggeration: I n the agit-prop tradition, the actors are not afraid to make fun of their characters: through the rendering of a gesture or an intonation, the inanity of what is said reveals itself. The scenic metaphor: Here the speech is no longer undercut by a gesture but by a whole action: the boss, bringing his functionaries to speak before the workers, drags them in by a cord around their necks (these "collaborators" are merely

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Theater – Duke University Press

Published: Dec 1, 1969

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