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Divine Decadence

Author : Linda Mizejewski
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400863007
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Divine Decadence written by Linda Mizejewski and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As femme fatale, cabaret siren, and icon of Camp, the Christopher Isherwood character Sally Bowles has become this century's darling of "divine decadence"--a measure of how much we are attracted by the fiction of the "shocking" British/American vamp in Weimar Berlin. Originally a character in a short story by Isherwood, published in 1939, "Sally" has appeared over the years in John Van Druten's stage play I Am a Camera, Henry Cornelius's film of the same name, and Joe Masteroff's stage musical and Bob Fosse's Academy Award-winning musical film, both entitled Cabaret. Linda Mizejewski shows how each successive repetition of the tale of the showgirl and the male writer/scholar has linked the young man's fascination with Sally more closely to the fascination of fascism. In every version, political difference is read as sexual difference, fascism is disavowed as secretly female or homosexual, and the hero eventually renounces both Sally and the corruption of the coming regime. Mizejewski argues, however, that the historical and political aspects of this story are too specific--and too frightening--to explain in purely psychoanalytic terms. Instead, Divine Decadence examines how each text engages particular cultural issues and anxieties of its era, from postwar "Momism" to the Vietnam War. Sally Bowles as the symbol of "wild Weimar" or Nazi eroticism represents "history" from within the grid of many other controversial discourses, including changing theories of fascism, the story of Camp, vicissitudes of male homosexual representations and discourses, and the relationships of these issues to images of female sexuality. To Mizejewski, the Sally Bowles adaptations end up duplicating the fascist politics they strain to condemn, reproducing the homophobia, misogyny, fascination for spectacle, and emphasis of sexual difference that characterized German fascism. Originally published in 1992. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

The Berlin of Sally Bowles

Author : Christopher Isherwood
Publisher : London : Hogarth Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Berlin of Sally Bowles written by Christopher Isherwood and published by London : Hogarth Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sally Bowles

Author : Christopher Isherwood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Sally Bowles written by Christopher Isherwood and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

I Am a Camera

Author : John Van Druten
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822205456
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book I Am a Camera written by John Van Druten and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1983 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in Berlin between the two world wars the play explores the tensions leading to the rise of Hitler.

A Not So Foreign Affair

Author : Andrea Slane
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822380846
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book A Not So Foreign Affair written by Andrea Slane and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2001-05-22 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Not So Foreign Affair Andrea Slane investigates the influence of images of Nazism on debates about sexuality that are central to contemporary American political rhetoric. By analyzing an array of films, journalism, scholarly theories, melodrama, video, and propaganda literature, Slane describes a common rhetoric that emerged during the 1930s and 1940s as a means of distinguishing “democratic sexuality” from that ascribed to Nazi Germany. World War II marked a turning point in the cultural rhetoric of democracy, Slane claims, because it intensified a preoccupation with the political role of private life and pushed sexuality to the center of democratic discourse. Having created tremendous anxiety—and fascination—in American culture, Nazism became associated with promiscuity, sexual perversionand the destruction of the family. Slane reveals how this particular imprint of fascism is used in progressive as well as conservative imagery and language to further their domestic agendas and shows how our cultural engagement with Nazism reflects the inherent tension in democracy between the value of diversity, individual freedoms national identity, and notions of the common good. Finally, she applies her analysis of wartime narratives to contemporary texts, examining anti-abortion, anti-gay, and anti-federal rhetoric, as well as the psychic life of skinheads, censorship debates, and the contemporary fascination with incest. An invaluable resource for understanding the language we use—both visual and narrative—to describe and debate democracy in the United States today, A Not So Foreign Affair will appeal to those interested in cultural studies, film and video studies, American studies, twentieth century history, German studies, rhetoric, and sexuality studies.

The Berlin Stories

Author : Christopher Isherwood
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811218047
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book The Berlin Stories written by Christopher Isherwood and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic of 20th-century fiction, "Berlin Stories" inspired the Broadway musical and Oscar-winning film "Cabaret." This newly released paperback edition features an Introduction by the acclaimed novelist Maupin.

Goodbye to Berlin

Author : Christopher Isherwood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book Goodbye to Berlin written by Christopher Isherwood and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Isherwood on Writing

Author : Christopher Isherwood
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452912939
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Isherwood on Writing written by Christopher Isherwood and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1960s, Christopher Isherwood gave an unprecedented series of lectures at California universities on the theme “A Writer and His World.” During this time Isherwood, who would liberate the memoir and become the founding father of modern gay writing, spoke openly for the first time about his craft—on writing for film, theater, and novels—and on spirituality. Isherwood on Writing brings these public addresses together to reveal a distinctly—and surprisingly—American Isherwood. Given at a critical time in Isherwood’s career, these lectures mark the era when he turned from fiction to memoir. In free-flowing, wide-ranging discussions, he reflects on such topics as why writers write, what makes a novel great, and what influenced his own work. Isherwood talks about his working relationship with W. H. Auden; his literary friendships with E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, Stephen Spender, Aldous Huxley, and Somerset Maugham; and his work in the film industry in London and Hollywood. He also explores uncharted territory in candid comments on his own work, something not contained in his diaries. Isherwood on Writing uncovers an important and often-misunderstood time in Isherwood’s life in America. The lectures present, in James J. Berg’s words, “an example of a man, comfortable in his own sexuality and self, trying to talk about himself and his own life in a society that is not yet ready to hear the whole story.” A major figure in twentieth-century fiction and the gay rights movement, Christopher Isherwood (1904–1986) is the author of many books, including A Single Man and Down There on a Visit, available from Minnesota. James J. Berg is dean of liberal arts and sciences at Lake Superior College in Duluth, Minnesota. He is editor, with Chris Freeman, of The Isherwood Century: Essays on the Life and Work of Christopher Isherwood (winner of the Lambda Award) and Conversations with Christopher Isherwood. Claude Summers is professor emeritus of English at the University of Michigan, Dearborn and author of many works, including Gay Fictions: Wilde to Stonewall.

Dating Tips for the Unemployed

Author : Iris Smyles
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0544703685
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (447 download)

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Download or read book Dating Tips for the Unemployed written by Iris Smyles and published by HMH. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the Believer’s Best Books of the Year: One woman’s journey through that awkward period between being born and dying. A modern odyssey about trying to find one’s home in the world, this collection of wickedly funny and offbeat vignettes touches upon quantum physics; the Donner Party; arctic exploration; Greek mythology; Rocky I, II, V, IV, VI, and III respectively; and literary immortality. Dating Tips for the Unemployed “melds novel, autobiography, and all manner of asides as [the author] flails at art, love, and friendship with the wry intelligence of someone just wise enough to realize they have no idea what they’re doing. A flat-out joy to read” (O, The Oprah Magazine). “In engaging episodes, Iris-the-character neurotically navigates dating in New York City, smokes pot on Greek islands with hapless lovers, drinks too much, deals with disapproving family, and eats a lot of cannoli. Smyles’s surreal, lyrical voice elevates these everyday scenarios into the realm of the fantastic and absurd. Included in the book are hilariously stylized advertisements full of false promises, such as ‘Health Secrets of the Roman Empire’ and ‘Have Your Portrait Painted By An Elephant!’ all for a price. Smyles is sharp, melancholy, and wickedly funny. She is unafraid to reveal and revel in her character’s flaws because it is what makes them so achingly, relatably human.” —Interview “Something like a cocktail of Dorothy Parker, James Joyce, and Philip Roth iced, sweetened, and blended.” —The Nervous Breakdown “Whimsy, satire, and rollicking social commentary . . . Ms. Smyles is a misanthrope-of-the-people, a standout on the order of Fran Lebowitz.” —The East Hampton Star

The Musical as Drama

Author : Scott McMillin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691164622
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book The Musical as Drama written by Scott McMillin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-12 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Derived from the colorful traditions of vaudeville, burlesque, revue, and operetta, the musical has blossomed into America's most popular form of theater. Scott McMillin has developed a fresh aesthetic theory of this underrated art form, exploring the musical as a type of drama deserving the kind of critical and theoretical regard given to Chekhov or opera. Until recently, the musical has been considered either an "integrated" form of theater or an inferior sibling of opera. McMillin demonstrates that neither of these views is accurate, and that the musical holds true to the disjunctive and irreverent forms of popular entertainment from which it arose a century ago. Critics and composers have long held the musical to the standards applied to opera, asserting that each piece should work together to create a seamless drama. But McMillin argues that the musical is a different form of theater, requiring the suspension of the plot for song. The musical's success lies not in the smoothness of unity, but in the crackle of difference. While disparate, the dancing, music, dialogue, and songs combine to explore different aspects of the action and the characters. Discussing composers and writers such as Rodgers and Hammerstein, Stephen Sondheim, Kander and Ebb, Leonard Bernstein, and Jerome Kern, The Musical as Drama describes the continuity of this distinctively American dramatic genre, from the shows of the 1920s and 1930s to the musicals of today.

Theatre and Archival Memory

Author : Barry Houlihan
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030745481
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Theatre and Archival Memory written by Barry Houlihan and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-07-28 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents new insights into the production and reception of Irish drama, its internationalisation and political influences, within a pivotal period of Irish cultural and social change. From the 1950s onwards, Irish theatre engaged audiences within new theatrical forms at venues from the Pike Theatre, the Project Arts Centre, and the Gate Theatre, as well as at Ireland’s national theatre, the Abbey. Drawing on newly released and digitised archival records, this book argues for an inclusive historiography reflective of the formative impacts upon modern Irish theatre as recorded within marginalised performance histories. This study examines these works' experimental dramaturgical impacts in terms of production, reception, and archival legacies. The book, framed by the device of ‘archival memory’, serves as a means for scholars and theatre-makers to inter-contextualise existing historiography and to challenge canon formation. It also presents a new social history of Irish theatre told from the fringes of history and reanimated through archival memory.

Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature

Author : Merriam-Webster, Inc
Publisher : Merriam-Webster
ISBN 13 : 9780877790426
Total Pages : 1260 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature written by Merriam-Webster, Inc and published by Merriam-Webster. This book was released on 1995 with total page 1260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes authors, works, and literary terms from all eras and all parts of the world.

Clockwork Liza

Author : Martin Wimmer
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3754346245
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (543 download)

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Download or read book Clockwork Liza written by Martin Wimmer and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2021-09-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Actress, singer, musical theater star, gay icon: Liza Minnelli. Always citing the past but acting in present, her image is an oddity of the entertainment industry. Private background and acting roles flow together in the case of Minnelli who was born into the American show business in 1946. But she is more than "Cabaret", Great American Songbook, Broadway and drag model. This book is neither another sentimental biography of her so-called tragic private life nor a pure scientific examination. It simply aims to analyze her single fields of work in theater, film, television, recording studio and on concert stage that all perform together like a clockwork.

The Copyright Handbook

Author : Stephen Fishman
Publisher : Nolo
ISBN 13 : 1413331130
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book The Copyright Handbook written by Stephen Fishman and published by Nolo. This book was released on 2024-01-30 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything writers―and anyone working with words―need to know about producing and protecting content both in print and online. Includes a look at the exploding field of artificial intelligence (AI) and its impact on copyright.

Changed for Good

Author : Stacy Wolf
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195378245
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Changed for Good written by Stacy Wolf and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-07-28 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Maria in "West Side Story" to Tracy Turnblatt in "Hairspray" and Elphaba in "Wicked," female characters in Broadway musicals have belted and crooned their way into the American psyche. In this lively book, Stacy Wolf illuminates the women of American musical theater—performers, creators, and characters—from the start of the cold war to the present day, creating a new, feminist history of the genre, which finds often overlooked moments of empowerment for female audience members. Moving from decade to decade, Wolf first highlights the assumptions that circulated about gender and sexuality at the time, and then looks at the leading musicals, stressing the key aspects of the plays as they relate to women. The musicals discussed here are among the most beloved in the canon—"West Side Story," "Guys & Dolls," "Cabaret," "Phantom of the Opera," and many others—with special emphasis on the blockbuster "Wicked." Along the way, Wolf demonstrates how the musical since the mid-1940s has actually been dominated by women—women onstage, women in the wings, and women offstage as spectators and fans.

The Making of Cabaret

Author : Keith Garebian
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199831296
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (312 download)

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Download or read book The Making of Cabaret written by Keith Garebian and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-20 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A handy and engaging chronicle, this book is the most detailed production history to date of the original Broadway version of Cabaret, showing how the show evolved from Christopher Isherwood's Berlin stories, into John van Druten's stage play, a British film adaptation, and then the Broadway musical, conceived and directed by Harold Prince as an early concept musical. With nearly 40 illustrations, full cast credits, and a bibliography, The Making of Cabaret will appeal to musical theatre aficionados, theatre specialists, and students and performers of musical theatre.

Cabaret

Author : Stephen Tropiano
Publisher : Limelight Editions
ISBN 13 : 087910418X
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (791 download)

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Download or read book Cabaret written by Stephen Tropiano and published by Limelight Editions. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Limelight). In 1973, Cabaret walked away with eight Academy Awards, including gold statues for director Bob Fosse and for its stars, Liza Minnelli and Joel Grey. Based on the long-running Broadway musical, with a memorable score by John Kander and Fred Ebb, Cabaret is a landmark film that broke new cinematic ground by revolutionizing the Hollywood musical through its treatment of adult themes and art house sensibility. With an introduction by Joel Grey, the book chronicles the history of Cabaret, from Christopher Isherwood's Berlin Stories to the stage and film versions of John van Druten's play I Am a Camera, through the adaptation of the hit Broadway musical for the big screen. Readers will get an insider's look into the making of the film, the creative talent in front of the camera and behind the scenes, and why this divinely decadent musical continues to captivate audiences.