TY - BOOK AU - Shem-Tov,Naphtaly TI - Acco Festival: Between Celebration and Confrontation T2 - Israel: Society, Culture, and History SN - 9781618115119 AV - GT3930 .S546 2016 U1 - 394.26 23 PY - 2016///] CY - Boston, MA : PB - Academic Studies Press, KW - Festivals KW - Performing arts festivals KW - Israel KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface and Acknowledgements --; Introduction --; CHAPTER ONE. Artistic Direction and the Political: Exception Takes the Stage? --; CHAPTER TWO. Performance Repertoire: Representations of Social Conflicts --; CHAPTER THREE. Organization, Budget, and Infrastructure: Between Center and Periphery --; CHAPTER FOUR. Festival Reception: Judgment, Criticism, Audience --; CHAPTER FIVE. Host Community: Policy and Resistance --; References --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - This research follows the history ofthe Acco Festival for Other Israeli Theatre from 1980-2012, chronicling it as a site of celebration as well as confrontation. The Acco Festival is presented as a borderland that brings together established mainstream directors and actors, alternative artists from the fringes, and Acco's Jewish and Arab residents. The book explores the festival's artistic direction; repertoire; organization, budget, and infrastructure; reception; and the Acco host community UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781618115126 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781618115126 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781618115126.jpg ER -