[ecrea] New open access title announcement: Resetting the Stage by Dragan Klaic

Intellect is delighted to announce that the electronic version of Dragan 
Klaic's Resetting the Stage(2012) is now available for free download.
To access the ePDF please click on this link 
http://www.oapen.org/search?identifier=1002474;keyword=resetting%20the%20stage

Commercial theatre is thriving across Europe and the UK, while public 
theatre has suffered under changing patterns of cultural consumption—as 
well as sharp reductions in government subsidies for the arts. At a time 
when the rationale behind these subsidies is being widely reexamined, it 
has never been more important for public theatre to demonstrate its 
continued merit. In/ Resetting the Stage/, Dragan Klaic argues 
convincingly that, in an increasingly crowded market of cultural goods, 
public theatre is best served not by imitating its much larger 
commercial counterpart, but by asserting its artistic distinctiveness 
and the considerable benefit this confers on the public.

Dragan Klaic was a well-respected theatre scholar and cultural analyst. 
He served as a permanent fellow of the Felix Meritis Foundation and as a 
visiting professor of cultural policy at the Central European University 
in Budapest. Intellect is honoured to have published his final book.

/'All of his knowledge and research was channelled in a living reality, 
and presented in the context of world theatre as a whole.'/ – Michael 
Coveney, What's On Stage

/'I can think of no one else who could cover so much ground, impart so 
much experienced wisdom and make so many sensible proposals for the 
future of the art form we love. Read Dragan Klaic’s book, and read it 
soon.'/ – Ian Herbert, The Stage

/''Resetting the Stage' offers an important, if (perhaps necessarily) 
unfinished rejoinder to a situation in need of urgent and widespread 
attention'/ – Sam Haddow, Studies in Theatre and Performance

This open access publication has been made possible by libraries 
participating in the Knowledge Unlatched 2017 pledging round. 
http://www.knowledgeunlatched.org

Other IntellectOpen publications can be accessed through this link 
https://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/page/index,name=Intellect+Open/


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