The Oberammergau Passion Play, 1890
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Published: 1890
Total Pages: 134
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The Oberammergau Passion Play
Author: Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2017-02-06
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 0786496037
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEvery ten years since 1634, the Bavarian village of Oberammergau has performed the world's most famous Passion Play, recounting the last days of Jesus Christ. In 2010, presenting the play for the 41st time, the village broke with tradition to offer a new interpretation for a post-millennial, international audience. Drawing on interviews with villagers and international responses, this collection of new essays provides an analysis of the play by scholars who attended. Topics include changes in response to charges of anti-Semitism, how the play defines the village, how the performance changes the audience, and a comparison of Oberammergau 2010 with American Passion Plays, Indian pilgrimage drama and other German Passion Plays.
Bulletin of Bibliography and Dramatic Index
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Published: 1918
Total Pages: 398
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKBulletin of Bibliography and Magazine Subject-index
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Published: 1909
Total Pages: 336
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Bible on Silent Film
Author: David J. Shepherd
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-11-14
Total Pages: 333
ISBN-13: 1107513170
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBetween the advent of motion pictures in the 1890s and the close of the 'silent' era at the end of the 1920s, many of the longest, most expensive and most watched films on both sides of the Atlantic drew upon biblical traditions. David J. Shepherd traces the evolution of the biblical film through the silent era, asking why the Bible attracted early film makers, how biblical films were indebted to other interpretive traditions, and how these films were received. Drawing upon rarely seen archival footage and early landmark films of directors such as Louis Feuillade, D. W. Griffith, Michael Curtis and Cecil B. DeMille, this history treats well-known biblical subjects including Joseph, Moses, David and Jesus, along with lesser-known biblical stars such as Jael, Judith and Jephthah's daughter. This book will be of great interest to students of Biblical studies, Jewish studies and film studies.
American Cinema, 1890-1909
Author: André Gaudreault
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 0813544432
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe essays in American Cinema 1890-1909 explore and define how the making of motion pictures flowered into an industry that would finally become the central entertainment institution of the world. Beginning with all the early types of pictures that moved, this volume tells the story of the invention and consolidation of the various processes that gave rise to what we now call "cinema."
Welttheater
Author: Judith Beniston
Publisher: MHRA
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780901286840
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHugo von Hofmannsthal had a lifelong fascination with the theatrum mundi topos. Judith Beniston analyses his changing responses to it against an unfamiliar backdrop - the revival of Catholic drama which, from the 1890s onwards, accompanied the rise of Austria's Christian Social party. The solipsism of `Jung Wien' and the conservative modernism of the Salzburg Festival are juxtaposed with the career of Richard von Kralik (1852-1934), the key figure in Austria's Catholic literary culture from 1890 to 1934. This study offers close readings of Das kleine Welttheater and Das Salzburger grosse Welttheater, and explores the ramifications of the fascination with the notion of Welttheater which Hofmannsthal and Kralik shared. In juxtaposing elite and popular culture, Beniston sheds new light on a neglected aspect of Austrian cultural history, on the selectivity of Hofmannsthal's approach towards Austria's Baroque tradition, and on the difficulties he faced in his attempt to assimilate his own work into it.
Victorian Engagements with the Bible and Antiquity
Author: Simon Goldhill
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2023-07-31
Total Pages: 471
ISBN-13: 1009306456
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA brilliant exposition of how the Bible and classical antiquity are central to the formation of Victorian self-understanding.
Passion Play Oberammergau 2022
Author: Gemeinde Oberammergau
Publisher: Verlag Theater der Zeit
Published: 2022-10-06
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 3957494613
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe history of the Oberammergau Passion Play begins in 1633. In the midst of the Thirty Years' War, as plagues brought suffering and death for months on end, the people of Oberammergau vowed that they would stage the 'play of the suffering, death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ' every ten years. It was at Pentecost in 1634 that they first fulfilled this promise. In 2022, the community will present the Passion Play for the 42nd time, an unrivalled feat of continuity. Almost half the residents of Oberammergau, more than 2000 participants, mount the life of Jesus of Nazareth in a five-hour performance on the imposing open-air stage of the Passion Play Theatre in southern Bavaria. With more than one hundred performances and half a million spectators it is the most successful amateur production in the world, and is included on UNESCO's register of Intangible Cultural Heritage. The official illustrated book documents Christian Stückl's new production of the Passion Play with set designs, costumes and tableaux vivants by Stefan Hageneier. It is the third Passion Play production that the two Oberammergau-born artists have staged together, one that sees them forging a connection with the present day, highlighting the pressing issues of asylum and integration. The rehearsals are captured by Icelandic cinematographer Birgit Guðjónsdóttir, and her moving andrichly detailed photographs reveal the enormous energy and emotional force of this unique event.
Politics of the Oberammergau Passion Play
Author: Jan Mohr
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2023-04-26
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 100086183X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection provides a comprehensive overview of the Oberammergau Passion play and its history from the 19th century onwards. Specialists in theatre and performance studies, comparative literature, theology, political studies, history, and ethnology initiate an interdisciplinary discussion of how Oberammergau has built a trademark from tradition. A typological and historical outline of this development is followed by detailed analyses of the blending of spaces, temporalities, and cultures, through which Oberammergau as an institution is stabilized while at the same time remaining open to the dynamics of historical change. The authors comprise the formation of a theatrical public sphere, literary imaginations, and layers of authenticity in modern practices of distributed communication that culminate in the notion of tradition as trademark. This collection is analysed from a wide spectrum of cultural historical perspectives, ranging from literary studies, theatre and performance studies to theology, political studies, and ethnology.
