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Author : Garrison P. Sherwood
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 682 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The Best Plays and the Year Book of the Drama in America written by Garrison P. Sherwood and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Burns Mantle
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Burns Mantle Best Plays and the Year Book of the Drama in America written by Burns Mantle and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Steven Suskin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199790841
Total Pages : 703 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book The Sound of Broadway Music written by Steven Suskin and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2011 with total page 703 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title examines the careers of Broadway's major orchestrators and follows the song as it travels from the composer's piano to the orchestra pit.
Author : Marvin Lachman
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476618755
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book The Villainous Stage written by Marvin Lachman and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-11-19 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Live theatre was once the main entertainment medium in the United States and the United Kingdom. The preeminent dramatists and actors of the day wrote and performed in numerous plays in which crime was a major plot element. This remains true today, especially with the longest-running shows such as The Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables and Sweeney Todd. While hundreds of books have been published about crime fiction in film and on television, the topic of stage mysteries has been largely unexplored. Covering productions from the 18th century to the 2013-2014 theatre season, this is the first history of crime plays according to subject matter. More than 20 categories are identified, including whodunits, comic mysteries, courtroom dramas, musicals, crook plays, social issues, Sherlock Holmes, and Agatha Christie. Nearly 900 plays are described, including the reactions of critics and audiences.
Author : Max Alvarez
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496801032
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)
Download or read book The Crime Films of Anthony Mann written by Max Alvarez and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthony Mann (1906–1967) is renowned for his outstanding 1950s Westerns starring James Stewart (Winchester '73, The Naked Spur, The Man from Laramie). But there is more to Mann's cinematic universe than those tough Wild West action dramas featuring conflicted and secretive heroes. This brilliant Hollywood craftsman also directed fourteen electrifying crime thrillers between 1942 and 1951, among them such towering achievements in film noir as T-Men, Raw Deal, and Side Street. Mann was as much at home filming dark urban alleys in black-and-white as he was the prairies and mountains in Technicolor, and his protagonists were no less conflicted and secretive than his 1950s cowboys. In these Mann crime thrillers we find powerful stories of sexual obsession (The Great Flamarion), the transforming images of women in wartime and postwar America (Strangers in the Night, Strange Impersonation), exploitation of Mexican immigrants (Border Incident), studies of the criminal mind (He Walked by Night), and Civil War bigotry (The Tall Target). Mann's forceful camera captured such memorable and diverse stars as Erich von Stroheim, Farley Granger, Dennis O'Keefe, Claire Trevor, Richard Basehart, Ricardo Montalbán, Ruby Dee, and Raymond Burr. The Crime Films of Anthony Mann features analysis of rare documents, screenplays, story treatments, and studio memoranda and reveals detailed behind-the-scenes information on preproduction and production on the Mann thrillers. Author Max Alvarez uses rare and newly available sources to explore the creation of these noir masterworks. Along the way, the book exposes secrets and solves mysteries surrounding the mercurial director and his remarkable career, which also included Broadway and early live television.
Author : Jordan Schildcrout
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429560397
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)
Download or read book In the Long Run written by Jordan Schildcrout and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-04 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Long Run: A Cultural History of Broadway’s Hit Plays presents in-depth analysis of 15 plays that ran over 1,000 performances, examining what made each so popular in its time—and then, in many cases, fall into obscurity. Covering one hundred years of theatre history, it traces the long-running Broadway play as a distinct cultural phenomenon that rises and falls from 1918 to 2018. Each chapter focuses on the longest-running plays of a particular decade, synthesizing historical research and dramaturgical analysis to explain how they functioned as works of theatrical art, cultural commodities, and reflections of the values, conflicts, and fantasies of their times. At the heart of each play’s history are the ideological contradictions often present in works of popular culture that appeal to diverse audiences, particularly around issues of gender, race, class, and sexuality. Suitable for anyone with an interest in Broadway and its history, In the Long Run explores the nature of time in this ephemeral art form, the tensions between commerce and art, between popularity and prestige, and the changing position of the Broadway play within American popular culture.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Press Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Amnon Kabatchnik
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810869632
Total Pages : 869 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Blood on the Stage, 1925-1950 written by Amnon Kabatchnik and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 869 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, Amnon Kabatchnik provides an overview of more than 150 important and memorable theatrical works of crime and detection between 1925 and 1950. Each entry includes a plot synopsis, production data, and the opinions of well known and respected critics and scholars.
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.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1098 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Book Review Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1098 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpts from and citations to reviews of more than 8,000 books each year, drawn from coverage of 109 publications. Book Review Digest provides citations to and excerpts of reviews of current juvenile and adult fiction and nonfiction in the English language. Reviews of the following types of books are excluded: government publications, textbooks, and technical books in the sciences and law. Reviews of books on science for the general reader, however, are included. The reviews originate in a group of selected periodicals in the humanities, social sciences, and general science published in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain. - Publisher.
Author : John Chapman
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)
Download or read book The Burns Mantle Best Plays of ... and the Year Book of the Drama in America written by John Chapman and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 716 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Progress of Drama, Through the Centuries written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dramas by Present-Day Writers written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Amnon Kabatchnik
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810877848
Total Pages : 706 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Blood on the Stage, 1950-1975 written by Amnon Kabatchnik and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2011-04-14 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discussing more than 120 full-length plays, this volume provides an overview of the most important and memorable theatrical works of crime and detection produced between 1950 and 1975.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Play Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Louis Scheaffer
Publisher : Cooper Square Press
ISBN 13 : 1461732182
Total Pages : 770 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (617 download)
Download or read book O'Neill written by Louis Scheaffer and published by Cooper Square Press. This book was released on 2002-08-19 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most lauded playwright in American history, Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953) won four Pulitzer Prizes and a Nobel Prize for a body of work that includes The Iceman Cometh, Mourning Becomes Electra, Desire Under the Elms, and Long Day's Journey into Night. His life, the direct source for so much of his art, was one of personal tumult from the very beginning. The son of a famous actor and a quiet, morphine-addicted mother, O'Neill had experienced alcoholism, a collapse of his health, and bouts of mania while still a young man. Based on years of extensive research and access to previously untapped sources, Sheaffer's authoritative biography examines how the pain of O'Neill's childhood fed his desire to write dramas and affected his artistically successful and emotionally disastrous life.
Author : Thomas Hischak
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 135034060X
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)
Download or read book The Abbott Touch written by Thomas Hischak and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-02-09 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This in-depth and original study examines 100 productions and analyses why George Abbott's name became synonymous with the 'golden age' of Broadway. What did Abbott contribute? How did he work? How did he innovate the industry? How did he survive so long? All of these inquiries, and more, lead to the most fundamental question of all: what exactly was the famous “Abbott touch”? For sixty years, George Abbott was a vital force in the American theatre. As an actor, playwright, director, librettist, play doctor, and producer, he laid his "touch" on approximately 100 New York productions, from The Pajama Game and Damn Yankees through to Once Upon a Mattress and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Spanning this incredible figure's work chronologically, each chapter of The Abbott Touch examines a period of creativity in his life, culminating in how he became the famous multi-hyphenate artist he is now celebrated as. Beginning with his early career in 1913 through to his work on the 1994 revival of Damn Yankees, this book analyses his key contributions to his primary works, all of which have relied on his genius. The first study of its kind, The Abbott Touch provides key insights into the working life of one of the 20th Century's most prolific theatre practitioners, as well as a vital history for theatre scholars and fans alike.
