A George Jean Nathan Reader
A George Jean Nathan Reader

Author: George Jean Nathan

Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 9780838633694

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The selection in this one-volume anthology are representative of Nathan's entire oeuvre and include informal essays; criticism of famous plays of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; discussions of dramaturgy and aesthetics; profiles of noted producers, players, playwrights, and other writers; and letters that illuminate his writings.

The World of George Jean Nathan
The World of George Jean Nathan

Author: George Jean Nathan

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 532

ISBN-13: 9781557833136

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(Applause Books). This anthology represents George Jean Nathan in all the various facets of his long writing career. He has written on marraige, politics, doctors, metropolitan life, the ballet, love, alcohol on virtually every major aspect of contemporary life and he has had something shrewd or amusing to say about every one of them.

The Critic and the Drama
The Critic and the Drama

Author: George Jean Nathan

Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

Published: 1972

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 9780838679647

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George Jean Nathan (1882-1958) was formative influence on American letters in the first half of this century, and is generally considered the leading drama critic of his era. With H. L. Mencken, Nathan edited The Smart Set and founded and edited The American Mercury, journals that shaped opinion in the 1920s and 1930s. This series of reprints, individually introduced by the distinguished critic and novelist Charles Angoff, collects Nathan's penetrating, witty, and sometimes cynical drama criticism.

Method Acting and Its Discontents
Method Acting and Its Discontents

Author: Shonni Enelow

Publisher: Northwestern University Press

Published: 2015-07-09

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 0810131412

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Method Acting and Its Discontents: On American Psycho-Drama provides a new understanding of a crucial chapter in American theater history. Enelow’s consideration of the broader cultural climate of the late 1950s and early 1960s, specifically the debates within psychology and psychoanalysis, the period’s racial and sexual politics, and the rise of mass media, gives us a nuanced, complex picture of Lee Strasberg and the Actors Studio and contemporaneous works of drama. Combining cultural analysis, dramaturgical criticism, and performance theory, Enelow shows how Method acting’s contradictions reveal powerful tensions inside mid-century notions of individual and collective identity.

Highbrow/lowdown
Highbrow/lowdown

Author: David Savran

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 0472116924

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The culture clash that permanently changed American theater

Lillian Gish
Lillian Gish

Author: Charles Affron

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2002-03-12

Total Pages: 470

ISBN-13: 9780520234345

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"As someone who worked with and knew Lillian Gish for years, I found Charles Affron’s portrait revealing and moving. He rekindles the life of this intuitive and generous artist beautifully."—Eva Marie Saint