German Expressionist Drama
Author: Renate Benson
Publisher: London : Macmillan Press
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 179
ISBN-13: 9780333305867
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German Expressionist Theatre
Author: David F. Kuhns
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1997-08-28
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 0521583403
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGerman Expressionist Theatre: The Actor and the Stage considers the powerfully stylized, anti-realistic styles of acting on the German Expressionist stage from 1916 to 1921. It relates this striking departure from the dominant European acting tradition of realism to the specific cultural crises that enveloped the German nation during the course of its involvement in World War I. This book describes three distinct Expressionist acting styles, all of which in their own ways attempted to show how symbolic stage performance could be a powerful rhetorical resource for a culture struggling to come to terms with the crises of historical change. The examination of Expressionist script and actor memoirs allows for an unprecedented focus on description and analysis of acting itself.
A Companion to the Literature of German Expressionism
Author: Neil H. Donahue
Publisher: Camden House
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 1571131752
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Expressionism and Modernism in the American Theatre
Author: Julia A. Walker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005-06-30
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 1139446274
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlthough often dismissed as a minor offshoot of the better-known German movement, expressionism on the American stage represents a critical phase in the development of American dramatic modernism. Situating expressionism within the context of early twentieth-century American culture, Walker demonstrates how playwrights who wrote in this mode were responding both to new communications technologies and to the perceived threat they posed to the embodied act of meaning. At a time when mute bodies gesticulated on the silver screen, ghostly voices emanated from tin horns, and inked words stamped out the personality of the hand that composed them, expressionist playwrights began to represent these new cultural experiences by disarticulating the theatrical languages of bodies, voices and words. In doing so, they not only innovated a new dramatic form, but redefined playwriting from a theatrical craft to a literary art form, heralding the birth of American dramatic modernism.
Machinal
Author: Sophie Treadwell
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 102
ISBN-13: 9781854592118
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The Machine-wreckers
Author: Ernst Toller
Publisher:
Published: 1923
Total Pages: 138
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Caucasian Chalk Circle
Author: Bertolt Brecht
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2015-03-16
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 140816101X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Student Edition of Brecht's classic dramatisation of the conflict over possession of a child features an extensive introduction and commentary that includes a plot summary, discussion of the context, themes, characters, style and language as well as questions for further study and notes on words and phrases in the text. It is the perfect edition for students of theatre and literature. Brecht projects an ancient Chinese story onto a realistic setting in Soviet Georgia. In a theme that echoes the Judgment of Solomon, two women argue over the possession of a child; thanks to the unruly judge, Azdak (one of Brecht's most vivid creations) natural justice is done and the peasant Grusha keeps the child she loves, even though she is not its mother. Written in exile in the United States during the Second World War, The Caucasian Chalk Circle is a politically-charged, much-revived and complex example of Brecht's epic theatre. This volume contains expert notes on the author's life and work, historical and political background to the play, photographs from stage productions and a glossary of difficult words and phrases. It features the acclaimed translation by James and Tania Stern with W. H. Auden.
The Oxford Handbook of American Drama
Author: Jeffrey H. Richards
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014-02
Total Pages: 593
ISBN-13: 0199731497
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume explores the history of American drama from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. It describes origins of early republican drama and its evolution during the pre-war and post-war periods. It traces the emergence of different types of American drama including protest plays, reform drama, political drama, experimental drama, urban plays, feminist drama and realist plays. This volume also analyzes the works of some of the most notable American playwrights including Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, and Arthur Miller and those written by women dramatists.
Expressionism in the Cinema
Author: Brill Olaf Brill
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2016-02-19
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13: 1474411193
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of the most visually striking traditions in cinema, for too long Expressionism has been a neglected critical category of research in film history and aesthetics. The fifteen essays in this anthology remedies this by revisiting key German films like The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) and Nosferatu (1922), and also provide original critical research into more obscure titles like Nerven (1919) and The Phantom Carriage (1921), films that were produced in the silent and early sound era in countries ranging from France, Sweden and Hungary, to the United States and Mexico.An innovative and wide-ranging collection, Expressionism in the Cinema re-canonizes the classical Expressionist aesthetic, extending the critical and historical discussion beyond pre-existing scholarship into comparative and interdisciplinary areas of film research that reach across national boundaries.
The Routledge Companion to Scenography
Author: Arnold Aronson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-09-11
Total Pages: 602
ISBN-13: 1317422260
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Routledge Companion to Scenography is the largest and most comprehensive collection of original essays to survey the historical, conceptual, critical and theoretical aspects of this increasingly important aspect of theatre and performance studies. Editor and leading scholar Arnold Aronson brings together a uniquely valuable anthology of texts especially commissioned from across the discipline of theatre and performance studies. Establishing a stable terminology for a deeply contested term for the first time, this volume looks at scenography as the totality of all the visual, spatial and sensory aspects of performance. Tracing a line from Aristotle’s Poetics down to Brecht and Artaud and into contemporary immersive theatre and digital media, The Routledge Companion to Scenography is a vital addition to every theatre library.
