German Expressionist Theatre

Author : David F. Kuhns
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521583403
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book German Expressionist Theatre written by David F. Kuhns and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-08-28 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: German 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.

Author : Claude Hill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The drama of German expressionism written by Claude Hill and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Renate Benson
Publisher : London : Macmillan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780333305867
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book German Expressionist Drama written by Renate Benson and published by London : Macmillan Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Patterson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317217926
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Revolution in German Theatre 1900-1933 (Routledge Revivals) written by Michael Patterson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-06 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1981, this book represents the first work in English to give a comprehensive account of the revolutionary developments in German theatre from the decline of Naturalism through the Expressionist upheaval to the political theatre of Piscator and Brecht. Early productions of Kaiser’s From Morning till Midnight and Toller’s Transfiguration are presented as examples of Expressionism. A thorough analysis of Piscator’s Hoppla, Such is Life! And Brecht’s Man show the similarities and differences in political theatre. In addition, elements of stage-craft are examined — illustrated with tabulated information, an extensive chronology, and photographs and designs of productions.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anthology of German Expressionist Drama written by and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Renate Benson
Publisher : New York : Grove Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book German Expressionist Drama written by Renate Benson and published by New York : Grove Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Julia A. Walker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139446274
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Expressionism and Modernism in the American Theatre written by Julia A. Walker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-06-30 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although 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.

Author : Sophie Treadwell
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9781854592118
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Machinal written by Sophie Treadwell and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frequently reprinted with the same ISBN, but with slightly differing bibliographic data.

Author : Dorothy Price
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526121646
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book German Expressionism written by Dorothy Price and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-24 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents new research on the histories and legacies of the German Expressionist group Blaue Reiter, the founding force behind modernist abstraction. For the first time Blaue Reiter is subjected to a variety of novel inter-disciplinary perspectives, ranging from a philosophical enquiry into its language and visual perception to analyses of its gender dynamics, its reception at different historical junctures throughout the twentieth century and its legacies for post-colonial aesthetic practices. The volume offers a new perspective on familiar aspects of Expressionism and abstraction, taking seriously the inheritance of modernism for the twenty-first century in ways that will help to recalibrate the field of Expressionist studies for future scholarship. Blaue Reiter still matters, the contributors argue, because the legacies of abstraction are still being debated by artists, writers, philosophers and cultural theorists today.

Author : Arnold Aronson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317422260
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Scenography written by Arnold Aronson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-11 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 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.