Directors on Directing
Author: Toby Cole
Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
Published: 1963
Total Pages: 490
ISBN-13:
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Fifty Key Theatre Directors
Author: Shomit Mitter
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780415187329
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscusses each director's key productions, ideas and rehearsal methods, combining theory and practice.
Play Directing
Author: Francis Hodge
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2015-11-19
Total Pages: 407
ISBN-13: 1317351029
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPlay Directing describes the various roles a director plays, from selection and analysis of the play, to working with actors and designers to bring the production to life. The authors emphasize that the role of the director as an artist-leader collaborating with actors and designers who look to the director for partnership in achieving their fullest, most creative expressions. The text emphasizes how the study of directing provides an intensive look at the structure of plays and acting, and of the process of design of scenery, costume, lighting, and sound that together make a produced play.
Kazan on Directing
Author: Elia Kazan
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2010-01-12
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 0307277046
DOWNLOAD EBOOKElia Kazan was the twentieth century’s most celebrated director of both stage and screen, and this monumental, revelatory book shows us the master at work. Kazan’s list of Broadway and Hollywood successes—A Streetcar Named Desire, Death of a Salesman, On the Waterfront, to name a few—is a testament to his profound impact on the art of directing. This remarkable book, drawn from his notebooks, letters, interviews, and autobiography, reveals Kazan’s method: how he uncovered the “spine,” or core, of each script; how he analyzed each piece in terms of his own experience; and how he determined the specifics of his production. And in the final section, “The Pleasures of Directing”—written during Kazan’s final years—he becomes a wise old pro offering advice and insight for budding artists, writers, actors, and directors.
Dramaturgy
Author: Mary Luckhurst
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-01-19
Total Pages: 19
ISBN-13: 1139448188
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDramaturgy: A Revolution in Theatre is a substantial history of the origins of dramaturgs and literary managers. It frames the explosion of professional appointments in England within a wider continental map reaching back to the Enlightenment and eighteenth-century Germany, examining the work of the major theorists and practitioners of dramaturgy, from Granville Barker and Gotthold Lessing to Brecht and Tynan. This study positions Brecht's model of dramaturgy as central to the worldwide revolution in theatre-making practices, and it also makes a substantial argument for Granville Barker's and Tynan's contributions to the development of literary management. With the territories of play and performance-making being increasingly hotly contested, and the public's appetite for new plays showing no sign of diminishing, Mary Luckhurst investigates the dramaturg as a cultural and political phenomenon.
On Directing
Author: Harold Clurman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1997-04-03
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 0684826224
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Postmodern/drama
Author: Stephen Watt
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780472108725
DOWNLOAD EBOOKScrutinizing the critical tendency to label texts or writers as "postmodern", scholar Stephen Watt argues that "reading post modernly" merely implies reading culture more broadly. In contemporary drama, Watt considers postmodernity less a question of genre or media than a mode of subjectivity shared by both playwright and audience. 6 illustrations.
Performing Difference
Author: Jonathan C. Friedman
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: 2008-12-24
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 0761842675
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPerforming Difference is a compilation of seventeen essays from some of the leading scholars in history, criticism, film, and theater studies. Each author examines the portrayal of groups and individuals that have been traditionally marginalized or excluded from dominant historical narratives. As a meeting point of several fields of study, this book is organized around three meta-themes: race, gender, and genocide. Included are analyses of films and theatrical productions from the United States, as well as essays on cinema from Southern and Central America, Europe, and the Middle East. Topically, the contributing authors write about the depiction of race, ethnicities, gender and sexual orientation, and genocides. This volume assesses how the performing arts have aided in the social construction of the 'other' in differing contexts. Its fundamental premise is that performance is powerful, and its unifying thesis is that the arts remain a major forum for advancing a more nuanced and humane vision of social outcasts, not only in the realm of national imaginations, but in social relations as well.
Early American Cinema
Author: Anthony Slide
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780810827226
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides a concise history of the American motion picture industry before 1920.
English Professional Theatre, 1530-1660
Author: Glynne Wickham
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 768
ISBN-13: 9780521230124
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume explores the professional English theatre from 1530 to 1660. The documents collected here, many published for the first time, chronicle the exciting and flourishing world of the theatre through the reigns of Henry VIII to Charles I. These exciting primary sources offer first-hand accounts, including the daily life and work of the actor, and the most complete coverage yet of all the playhouses, both public and private, including the Rose, the Globe, Red Lion and the Swan. The volume documents the various theatre companies of children, costumes and stage property matters, audience reception and behaviour, and ecclesiastical and governmental legislation. A full linking narrative and extensive bibliography detailing the location of the primary sources, provide an important reference work and valuable research tool.
