Stage Designers in Early Twentieth-Century America

Stage Designers in Early Twentieth-Century America

Author: E. Essin

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2012-12-23

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 1137108398

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By casting designers as authors, cultural critics, activists, entrepreneurs, and global cartographers, Essin tells a story about scenic images on the page, stage, and beyond that helped American audiences see the everyday landscapes and exotic destinations from a modern perspective.


Stage Designers in Early Twentieth-Century America

Stage Designers in Early Twentieth-Century America

Author: E. Essin

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2012-12-23

Total Pages: 437

ISBN-13: 1137108398

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By casting designers as authors, cultural critics, activists, entrepreneurs, and global cartographers, Essin tells a story about scenic images on the page, stage, and beyond that helped American audiences see the everyday landscapes and exotic destinations from a modern perspective.


American Scenic Design and Freelance Professionalism

American Scenic Design and Freelance Professionalism

Author: David Bisaha

Publisher: SIU Press

Published: 2022-11-29

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 0809338742

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"By asking readers to understand how the profession of scenic design was constructed and drawing attention to the work of talented but overlooked women, queer, and Black designers, this book expands the canon of design history and gives insight into how and why some designers were excluded from the professionalization of scenic design"--


Fifty Key Theatre Designers

Fifty Key Theatre Designers

Author: Arnold Aronson

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-11-21

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 1000992748

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Fifty Key Theatre Designers looks at the history of theatrical scenography by examining the work and contributions of fifty ground-breaking set, costume, lighting, and projection designers since the Renaissance. Developments of scenic design are traced from the introduction of perspective painting to create illusionistic scenery in Renaissance Italy to the use of digital projection in the twenty-first century. The book also discusses important landmarks in the evolution of costume and lighting design, as well as the introduction of film and video technology to stage design. A broad range of work is explored, including opera, dance, Broadway and West End commercial theatre, avant-garde performance, and even Olympic spectacles. Each chapter features one designer, including basic biographical information and a discussion of that artist’s style, aesthetics, and contributions. Designers covered include Sebastiano Serlio, Ferdinando Bibiena, Richard Wagner, Adolphe Appia, and Edward Gordon Craig, amongst many other notable individuals. Each chapter also includes references to other significant designers with similar aesthetics or who made similarly important contributions to the development of that aspect of scenography. This book is ideal for undergraduates and graduates of scenography, theatrical design, and theatre history.


Uncle Tom's Cabin on the American Stage and Screen

Uncle Tom's Cabin on the American Stage and Screen

Author: John W. Frick

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-04-30

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 1137566450

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No play in the history of the American Stage has been as ubiquitous and as widely viewed as Uncle Tom's Cabin . This book traces the major dramatizations of Stowe's classic from its inception in 1852 through modern versions on film. Frick introduce the reader to the artists who created the plays and productions that created theatre history.


Staging the Slums, Slumming the Stage

Staging the Slums, Slumming the Stage

Author: J. Westgate

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-10-15

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 1137357681

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Drawing on traditional archival research, reception theory, cultural histories of slumming, and recent work in critical theory on literary representations of poverty, Westgate argues that the productions of slum plays served as enactments of the emergent definitions of the slum and the corresponding ethical obligations involved therein.


America’s First Regional Theatre

America’s First Regional Theatre

Author: J. Ullom

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-05-14

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 1137394358

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The Cleveland Play House has mirrored the achievements and struggles of both the city of Cleveland and the American theatre over the past one hundred years. This book challenges the established history (often put forward by the theatre itself) and long-held assumptions concerning the creation of the institution and its legacy.


The Theatre of the Occult Revival

The Theatre of the Occult Revival

Author: E. Lingan

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-11-19

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 113744861X

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This book explores the religious foundations, political and social significance, and aesthetic aspects of the theatre created by the leaders of the Occult Revival. Lingan shows how theatre contributed to the fragmentation of Western religious culture and how contemporary theatre plays a part in the development of alternative, occult religions.


The Group Theatre

The Group Theatre

Author: Helen Krich Chinoy

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-11-06

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 1137294604

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The Group Theatre , a groundbreaking ensemble collective, started the careers of many top American theatre artists of the twentieth century and founded what became known as Method Acting. This book is the definitive history, based on over thirty years of research and interviews by the foremost theatre scholar of the time period, Helen Chinoy.


Performance Reconstruction and Spanish Golden Age Drama

Performance Reconstruction and Spanish Golden Age Drama

Author: L. Vidler

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-11-09

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 1137437073

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Spanish Golden Age drama has resurfaced in recent years, however scholarly analysis has not kept pace with its popularity. This book problematizes and analyzes the approaches to staging reconstruction taken over the past few decades, including historical, semiotic, anthropological, cultural, structural, cognitive and phenomenological methods.