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Author: E. Essin
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2012-12-23
Total Pages: 437
ISBN-13: 1137108398
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy 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.
Author: David Bisaha
Publisher: SIU Press
Published: 2022-11-29
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 0809338742
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"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"--
Author: Arnold Aronson
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2023-11-21
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 1000992748
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFifty 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.
Author: John W. Frick
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-04-30
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 1137566450
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNo 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.
Author: J. Westgate
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2014-10-15
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 1137357681
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing 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.
Author: J. Ullom
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2014-05-14
Total Pages: 433
ISBN-13: 1137394358
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Author: E. Lingan
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2014-11-19
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 113744861X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Author: Helen Krich Chinoy
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-11-06
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 1137294604
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Author: L. Vidler
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-11-09
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 1137437073
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSpanish 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.
Author: S. Liu
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-03-20
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 1137306114
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Shanghai in the early twentieth century, a hybrid theatrical form, wenmingxi, emerged that was based on Western spoken theatre, classical Chinese theatre, and a Japanese hybrid form known as shinpa. This book places it in the context of its hybridized literary and performance elements, giving it a definitive place in modern Chinese theatre.
