ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the dramaturgical analysis to the macrosocietal. It discusses the character of a dramaturgical society and the origins of a critical dramaturgy. In a dramaturgical society, a range of technological and artistic devices is used in the process of mass communication to project manufactured images in commercial and public service advertisements, press releases and news items, political declarations, and documentaries to audiences of millions. Perhaps the most serious fault of the dramaturgical society is the attendant exacerbation of inequality that accrues with the unrestrained use of dramaturgy in business and political life. Macroanalysis requires that each dramaturgic event be placed in the larger social and historical context in which it is located. Karl Marx and Freud explored the distance between things as they appear and as they are. Both were concerned to make visible the mystifications of life and to help create a more authentic, innocent, and human drama.
