„Warsaw has gone berserk with those Italians”: Fan Cultures in Late 19th and Early 20th-Century Warsaw from the Perspective of Theatre Migration History
Agata Łuksza
pamietnik.teatralny@gmail.comUniversity of Warsaw (Poland)
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7459-0187
Abstract
The author examines nineteenth-century Warsaw theatre through the lens of migration and fan–celebrity relations, focusing on fan practices and parasocial bonds established by the local audiences with the nomadic star performers. Both perspectives—the fan-based and the migratory—enable a reconsideration of the mechanisms of desire and gratification that underpin theatrical production, as well as of the economic dimension of theatre, which remains contingent upon transfer, translation, mobility, and ultimately, access to the metropolitan centre. They allow for a revaluation and reconceptualization of the history of the nineteenth-century Polish theatre, revealing phenomena that were by no means marginal in nature but have been marginalized at various stages of history production.
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Anselmi, Bellincioni, fans, home, migration, opera, theatreReferences
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Agata Łukszapamietnik.teatralny@gmail.com
University of Warsaw Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7459-0187
AGATA ŁUKSZA – PhD, cultural studies scholar, assistant professor at the Institute of Polish Culture at the University of Warsaw. She is interested in 19th-century culture, the history of women in theatre, the history of audiences and popular culture, and the theory and history of colonialism. She is currently conducting a research project entitled Polish Colonial Histories.
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