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Book Synopsis German Expressionist Theatre by : David F. Kuhns
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.
Book Synopsis The Drama of German Expressionism by : Claude Hill
Download or read book The Drama of German Expressionism written by Claude Hill and published by University of North Carolina S. This book was released on 2020-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1960, this bibliography with more than five thousand items provided an indispensable tool for those interested in the German expressionist plays. The volume contains a general bibliography on German expressionistic drama and as well as sixteen leading German playwrights: Barlach, Brecht, Bronnen, Goering, Hasenclever, Jahnn, Johst, Kaiser, Kokoschka, Kornfeld, Rubiner, Sorge, Sternheim, Toller, Unruh, and Werfel.
Book Synopsis German Expressionist Drama by : Renate Benson
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:
Book Synopsis German Expressionist Plays: Gottfried Benn, Georg Kaiser, Ernst Toller, and Others by : Ernst Schurer
Download or read book German Expressionist Plays: Gottfried Benn, Georg Kaiser, Ernst Toller, and Others written by Ernst Schurer and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1997-07-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume in The German Library includes the following authors and plays, which best represent the Expressionist movement of the early 20th century: -- Georg Kaiser: Gas I and Gas II -- Ernst Toller: Masses and Man -- Gottfried Benn: Ithaka -- Oskar Kokoschka: Murderer the Women's Hope -- Carl Sternheim: The Bloomers -- Walter Hasenclever: The Son>
Book Synopsis The Revolution in German Theatre 1900-1933 (Routledge Revivals) by : Michael Patterson
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.
Book Synopsis German Expressionist Drama by : Renate Benson
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:
Book Synopsis Expressionism and Modernism in the American Theatre by : Julia A. Walker
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.
Book Synopsis Anthology of German Expressionist Drama by :
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:
Book Synopsis The Routledge Companion to Scenography by : Arnold Aronson
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.
Book Synopsis German Expressionism by : Dorothy Price
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.
Book Synopsis The Drama of German Expressionism by : Claude Hill
Download or read book The Drama of German Expressionism written by Claude Hill and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis German Expressionism and the Messianism of a Generation by : Lisa Marie Anderson
Download or read book German Expressionism and the Messianism of a Generation written by Lisa Marie Anderson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reads messianic expectation as the defining characteristic of German culture in the first decades of the twentieth century. It has long been accepted that the Expressionist movement in Germany was infused with a thoroughly messianic strain. Here, with unprecedented detail and focus, that strain is traced through the work of four important Expressionist playwrights: Ernst Barlach, Georg Kaiser, Ernst Toller and Franz Werfel. Moreover, these dramatists are brought into new and sustained dialogues with the theorists and philosophers of messianism who were their contemporaries: Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, Martin Buber, Hermann Cohen, Gershom Scholem. In arguing, for example, that concepts like Bloch’s utopian self-encounter (Selbstbegegnung) and Benjamin’s messianic now-time (Jetztzeit) reappear as the framework for Expressionism’s staging of collective redemption in a new age, Anderson forges a previously underappreciated link in the study of Central European thought in the early twentieth century.
Book Synopsis From Morning to Midnight by : Georg Kaiser
Download or read book From Morning to Midnight written by Georg Kaiser and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-18 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Morning To Midnight, among the most frequently performed German Expressionist works, charts the life of a cashier who steals money from the bank and flees to Berlin. The un-named protagonist's bid to escape his middle-class daily life is ultimately frustrated. It is a popular piece in which Kaiser satirized the cheapness and futility of modern society. His hero, a kind of machine-age Everyman, searches everywhere for some kind of fulfilment - in commercial sex, in salvationist religion - but discovers through a series of nightmarish episodes that the world is deceitful and illusory. In the end, disillusioned and pursued by the police, he takes his own life. This new version by Dennis Kelly, opened at the National Theatre's Lyttelton Theatre in November 2013, as part of the National’s 50th Anniversary Season.
Book Synopsis The Haunted Screen by : Lotte H. Eisner
Download or read book The Haunted Screen written by Lotte H. Eisner and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book on expressionism in German motion pictures.
Book Synopsis Georg Kaiser, After Expressionism. Five Plays. by : Georg Kaiser
Download or read book Georg Kaiser, After Expressionism. Five Plays. written by Georg Kaiser and published by MHRA. This book was released on 2016-05-20 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Expressionism had run its feverish course, its foremost exponent Georg Kaiser (1878-1945) ‑‑ The Burghers of Calais, From Morn to Midnight, Gas ‑‑ proved equally adept at the lighter fare demanded by post-war audiences. Of some nine hundred comedies premièred in the Weimar era, his Pulp Fiction was an early triumph, often revived and played now as parody of a contagious literary genre, now as critique of Old World pieties. The New Woman emerged even more clearly towards the end of the ‘Roaring Twenties’ in Clairvoyance ‑‑ though now also as antagonist, from whose vampish sophistication the loving wife emancipates both self and wayward husband. Between these two comedies, in One Day in October (acclaimed especially in Gustav Gründgens’s gripping production) focus shifts to psychological wrestling in deadly earnest over the parentage of a child. A parallel dilemma underlies the compelling plot, rising tension and searing climax of Agnete ‑‑ an uncanny precursor of the ‘Heimkehrer’ literature inspired by soldiers and captives returning home after 1945. This was indeed a fitting play to mark the rebirth of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1949. Kaiser had died in exile, though not before taking leave, like Prospero, with another wry comedy, The Gordian Egg.
Book Synopsis Expressionism in German Life, Literature and the Theatre (1910-1924) by : Richard H. Samuel
Download or read book Expressionism in German Life, Literature and the Theatre (1910-1924) written by Richard H. Samuel and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis German Expressionist Cinema by : Ian Roberts
Download or read book German Expressionist Cinema written by Ian Roberts and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering classic films such as 'The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari' and 'Nosferatu' as well as under-appreciated examples such as 'Asphalt', this volume forms an essential introduction to one of cinema's most historically important movements.
