German Expressionist Theatre
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Author | : David F. Kuhns |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 1997-08-28 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0521583403 |
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 | : Renate Benson |
Publisher | : London : Macmillan Press |
Total Pages | : 179 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Expressionism |
ISBN | : 9780333305867 |
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Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 1963 |
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Author | : Claude Hill |
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Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
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Contains citations to books, dissertations, and articles in English and German concerning German expressionist drama of the early twentieth century, including separate sections devoted to German dramatists Ernst Barlach, Bertolt Brecht, Arnolt Bronnen, Reinhard Goering, Walter Hasenclever, Hans Henny Jahnn, Hanns Johst, Georg Kaiser, Oskar Kokoschka, Paul Kornfeld, Ludwig Rubiner, Reinhard Johannes Sorge, Carl Sternheim, Ernst Toller, Fritz von Unruh, and Franz Werfel.
Author | : Michael Patterson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2016-04-06 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1317217926 |
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.
Author | : Julia A. Walker |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2005-06-30 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1139446274 |
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 | : Renate Benson |
Publisher | : London : Macmillan Press |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
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Author | : J. L. Styan |
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Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780521230681 |
Author | : Sophie Treadwell |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 102 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9781854592118 |
Frequently reprinted with the same ISBN, but with slightly differing bibliographic data.
Author | : Arnold Aronson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 602 |
Release | : 2017-09-11 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1317422260 |
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.