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Author : Montrose J. Moses
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (251 download)
Download or read book The American Theatre as Seen by Its Critics, 1752-1934 written by Montrose J. Moses and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Montrose Jonas Moses
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ISBN 13 : 9781404752795
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (527 download)
Download or read book American Theater as Seen by Its Critics, 1752-1934 written by Montrose Jonas Moses and published by . This book was released on 1934-01-01 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 391 pages
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Download or read book THE AMERICAN THEATRE AS SEEN BY ITS CRITICS, 1752-1934. ED. BY MONTROSE J. MOSES AND JOHN MASON BROWN. written by and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Montrose Jonas MOSES (and BROWN (John Mason) Writer on Dramatic Art.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (562 download)
Download or read book The American Theatre, as Seen by Its Critics, 1752-1934. Edited by M. J. Moses and J. M. Brown. (Second Edition.). written by Montrose Jonas MOSES (and BROWN (John Mason) Writer on Dramatic Art.) and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Montrose J. Moses
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Total Pages : 391 pages
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Download or read book The American Theatre as Seen by Its Critics 1952 - 1934 written by Montrose J. Moses and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kevin Lane Dearinger
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1611479487
Total Pages : 607 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)
Download or read book Clyde Fitch and the American Theatre written by Kevin Lane Dearinger and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-07-29 with total page 607 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clyde Fitch (1865-1909) was the most successful and prolific dramatist of his time, producing nearly sixty plays in a twenty-year career. He wrote witty comedies, chaotic farces, homespun dramas, star vehicles, historical works, stark melodramas, and adaptations of European successes, but he was best known for his society plays, mirroring themes found in the novels of Henry James and Edith Wharton. In fact, Fitch collaborated with Wharton on a stage adaptation of her House ofMirth. He was also a gay man, although that gentler adjective was not the term of his time. He was bullied in school and baited by critics throughout his career for what they supposed of his private life. He responded with impressive strength and integrity. He was, at least for a short time, Oscar Wilde’s lover, and Wilde influenced his early plays, but Fitch’s study of Ibsen and other European dramatists inspired him to pursue the course of naturalism. As he became more successful, he took greater control of the staging and design of his plays. He was a complete man of the theatre and among the first names enrolled in New York’s theatrical hall of fame.
Author : James Fisher
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 081087833X
Total Pages : 571 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of American Theater written by James Fisher and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-04-16 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical Dictionary of American Theater: Beginnings covers the history of theater as well as the literature of America from 1538 to 1880. The years covered by this volume features the rise of the popular stage in American during the colonial era and the first century of the United States of America, with an emphasis on its practitioners, including such figures as Lewis Hallam, David Douglass, Mercy Otis Warren, Edwin Forrest, Charlotte Cushman, Joseph Jefferson, Ida Aldridge, Dion Boucicault, Edwin Booth, and many others. The Historical Dictionary of American Theater: Beginnings covers the history of early American Theatre through a chronology, an introductory essay, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1000 cross-referenced entries on actors and actresses, directors, playwrights, producers, genres, notable plays and theatres. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the early American Theater.
Author : James Fisher
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810870479
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The A to Z of American Theater written by James Fisher and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2009-09-02 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 50-year period from 1880 to 1929 is the richest era for theater in American history, certainly in the great number of plays produced and artists who contributed significantly, but also in the centrality of theater in the lives of Americans. As the impact of European modernism began to gradually seep into American theater during the 1880s and quite importantly in the 1890s, more traditional forms of theater gave way to futurism, symbolism, surrealism, and expressionism. American playwrights like 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 European modernism and as impacted 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; great performers like Maude Adams, Otis Skinner, Julia Marlowe, and E.H. Sothern; producers like David Belasco, Daniel Frohman, and Florenz Ziegfeld; critics; architects; designers; and costumes.
Author : Don B. Wilmeth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521651790
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (517 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge History of American Theatre written by Don B. Wilmeth and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume of the authoritative, multi-volume Cambridge History of American Theatre, first published in 1999, begins in the post-Civil War period and traces the development of American theatre up to 1945. It covers all aspects of theatre from plays and playwrights, through actors and acting, to theatre groups and directors. Topics examined include vaudeville and popular entertainment, European influences, theatre in and beyond New York, the rise of the Little Theatre movement, changing audiences, modernism, the Federal Theatre movement, scenography, stagecraft, and architecture. Contextualising chapters explore the role of theatre within the context of American social and cultural history, and the role of American theatre in relation to theatre in Europe and beyond. This definitive history of American theatre includes contributions from the following distinguished academics - Thomas Postlewait, John Frick, Tice L. Miller, Ronald Wainscott, Brenda Murphy, Mark Fearnow, Brooks McNamara, Thomas Riis, Daniel J. Watermeier, Mary C. Henderson, and Warren Kliewer.
Author : Gerald M. Berkowitz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317901738
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)
Download or read book American Drama of the Twentieth Century written by Gerald M. Berkowitz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Professor Berkowitz studies the diversity of American drama from the stylistic, experimental plays of O'Neill, through verse, tragedy and community theatre, to the theatre of the 1990s. The discussions range through dramatists, plays, genres and themes, with full supporting appendix material. It also examines major dramatists such as Eugene O'Neill, Arthur Miller, Sam Shephard, Tennessee Williams and August Wilson and covers not only the Broadway scene but also off Broadway movements and fringe theatres and such subjects as women's and African-American drama.
Author : Barry Witham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521308588
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (85 download)
Download or read book Theatre in the United States: Volume 1, 1750-1915: Theatre in the Colonies and the United States written by Barry Witham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-02-23 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the growth and development of theatre in the United States. Documents and commentary are arranged into chapters on business practice, acting, theatre buildings, drama, design, and audience behavior.
Author : Julia A. Walker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139446274
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
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 : Mary Simonson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199898030
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)
Download or read book Body Knowledge written by Mary Simonson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the deployment of intermedial aesthetics in the works of early twentieth-century female performers. By destabilizing medial and genre boundaries, these women created compelling and meaningful performances that negotiated turn-of-the-century American social and cultural issues.
Author : Matthew Rebhorn
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190218649
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Pioneer Performances written by Matthew Rebhorn and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pioneer Performances draws from a diverse cast of relevant historical figures, ultimately revealing the frontier as a set of complex performative practices imbued with a sense of trenchant social critique.
Author : Lea Jacobs
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520941535
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book The Decline of Sentiment written by Lea Jacobs and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008-04-02 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Decline of Sentiment seeks to characterize the radical shifts in taste that transformed American film in the jazz age. Based upon extensive reading of trade papers and the popular press of the day, Lea Jacobs documents the films and film genres that were considered old-fashioned, as well as those dubbed innovative and up-to-date, and looks closely at the works of filmmakers such as Erich von Stroheim, Charlie Chaplin, Ernst Lubitsch, and Monta Bell, among many others. Her analysis—focusing on the influence of literary naturalism on the cinema, the emergence of sophisticated comedy, and the progressive alteration of the male adventure story and the seduction plot—is a comprehensive account of the modernization of classical Hollywood film style and narrative form.
Author : Anders Breidlid
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415124393
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (243 download)
Download or read book American Culture written by Anders Breidlid and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Culture is an anthology of primary, documentary texts of American civilisation using excerpts from speeches, political addresses, articles, interviews, oral histories, autobiographies, advertisements and song lyrics. Edited by academics who are highly experienced in the study and teaching of American Studies across a wide range of institutions, this volume provides: * a wide range of texts that introduce the students to various sides of American society in an historical perspective: its regions, immigration, social structure, ethnic groups, ideology, religion and popular culture * primary sources of American life that students themselves can subject to cultural analysis and discussions in class * linking text arranged thematically * a means of seeing and understanding the ways in which language and culture are closely related, enabling students to integrate the study of culture and language and develop a combination of linguistic and cultural analytical skills.
Author : Amy Lehman
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786454717
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Victorian Women and the Theatre of Trance written by Amy Lehman and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spiritualists in the nineteenth century spoke of the "Borderland," a shadowy threshold where the living communed with the dead, and where those in the material realm could receive comfort or advice from another world. The skilled performances of mostly female actors and performers made the "Borderland" a theatre, of sorts, in which dramas of revelation and recognition were produced in the forms of seances, trances, and spiritualist lectures. This book examines some of the most fascinating American and British actresses of the Victorian era, whose performances fairly mesmerized their audiences of amused skeptics and ardent believers. It also focuses on the transformative possibilities of the spiritualist theatre, revealing how the performances allowed Victorian women to speak, act, and create outside the boundaries of their restricted social and psychological roles.
