Expressionism and Modernism in the American Theatre - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Expressionism and Modernism in the American Theatre write by Julia A. Walker. This book was released on 2005-06-30. Expressionism and Modernism in the American Theatre available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The A to Z of American Theater
The A to Z of American Theater - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The A to Z of American Theater write by James Fisher. This book was released on 2009. The A to Z of American Theater available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The period of 1880 to 1929 is the richest theater era in American history, certainly in the number of plays produced and significant artists, as well as in the centrality of theater in the lives of Americans. As the impact of European modernism gradually seeped into American theater during the 1880s and 1890s, more traditional forms of theater gave way to futurism, symbolism, surrealism, and expressionism. Such playwrights as Eugene O'Neill, George Kelly, Elmer Rice, Philip Barry, and George S. Kaufman ushered in the golden age of American drama." "The A to Z of American Theater: Modernism focuses on legitimate drama, both as influenced by modernism in Europe and by the popular entertainment that also enlivened the era. This is accomplished through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced entries on plays, music, playwrights, performers, producers, critics, architects, designers, and costumes." --Book Jacket.
Performance and Modernity
Performance and Modernity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Performance and Modernity write by Julia A. Walker. This book was released on 2022-01-06. Performance and Modernity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book argues that ideas first take shape in the human body, appearing on stage in new styles of performance.
Sheldon Cheney's Theatre Arts Magazine
Sheldon Cheney's Theatre Arts Magazine - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sheldon Cheney's Theatre Arts Magazine write by DeAnna M. Toten Beard. This book was released on 2010. Sheldon Cheney's Theatre Arts Magazine available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the early decades of the 20th century, Sheldon Cheney was the American theatre's zealous missionary for modernism. In 1916, Cheney founded Theatre Arts Magazine in Detroit with the intent to foster and support a 'renaissance' in America. Through this publication, Cheney gave voice to scores of 'little theatres'_groups around the country with artistic aspirations and local commitment that would become the models for the American regional theatre movement later in the century. In the first five years of Theatre Arts Magazine are the keys to understanding the progressive movement for a modern American theatre: the tension between commercial and non-commercial theatre, the yearning for more than realistic scenery, and the call for an 'authentic' American voice in playwriting. Publishing articles, photographs, and drawings by modernist stage designers, Cheney helped popularize the New Stagecraft and elevated the identity of the American scenic designer from a craftsperson to an artist. As progressives around the country read Theatre Arts Magazine, Cheney's assessment of the sins of American commercial theatre and the plan for its salvation eventually became the convictions of a generation. Sheldon Cheney's Theatre Arts Magazine: Promoting a Modern American Theatre, 1916-1921 enriches understanding of a critical period in American history and illuminates major issues of 20th century theatre and drama. Author DeAnna Toten Beard gives a brief history of the magazine, biographical information about Cheney, and an explanation of his philosophy of modernist theatre. Each chapter of the book considers a different topic relevant to Cheney's magazine, and selected articles are enhanced by full notations. This collection will help readers understand the dynamic nature of the discourse on modernism in America in the World War I era and, by extension, may even encourage fresh considerations about our contemporary stage.
The Oxford Handbook of American Drama
The Oxford Handbook of American Drama - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Oxford Handbook of American Drama write by Jeffrey H. Richards. This book was released on 2014-02. The Oxford Handbook of American Drama available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This 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.
