War and Theatrical Innovation

Victor Emeljanow is Emeritus Professor in the School of Creative Industries at the University of Newcastle, Australia, and General Editor of the e-journal Popular Entertainment Studies. He has published widely on subjects including the reception of Chekhov in Britain, the career of Theodore Kommisarjevsky, Beerbohm Tree's engagement with Ibsen on the West End, Victorian popular dramatists, and prisoner-of-war entertainments during the First and Second World Wars.

• Introduction: Victor Emeljanow; Theatrical Engagements in times of war: an introduction.- 1. Will Shüler; The Greek tragic chorus and its training for war: movement, music, and harmony in theatrical and military performance.- 2. Fraser Stevens; Cultural Camouflage: Acting Identities in World War 2 espionage.- 3. Greer Crawley; The Scenographer as Camoufleur Propaganda Strategies.- 4. Cariad Astles; Puppetry and the Spanish Civil War.- 5. Yuh-Jhung Hwang;  Theatrical Propaganda and an Imagined West during the Korean War.- 6. Gabriella Calchi-Novati; The Biopolitics of ISIS’ Iconoclastic Propaganda.- 7. Mayhill C. Fowler; Guns, Money and the Muse: New Patronage in the Russian Civil War, 1919-1922.- 8. Lu Miao and Wei Feng; Manipulating Beijing Opera: criminality and prosperity during Civil War in China c.1930.- 9. Anselm Heinrich; Patronising the National Stage: subsidies and control in wartime Britain.- 10. Veronica Kelly: ‘Make do and mend’: civilian and military audiences in Australian popular entertainment during the Pacific War of 1943-45.