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Author : Gilbert Debusscher,Henry I. Schvey,Marc Maufort
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : American drama
ISBN : 9051831072
Author : Robert Hammond Collins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Realism in literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040539194
Author : Stephen J. Bottoms
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521587913
This comprehensive analysis traces Sam Shepard's career from his experimental one-act plays of the 1960s to the 1994 play Simpatico. Curse of the Starving Class, Buried Child, True West, Fool for Love and A Lie of the Mind are all examined in depth. Concentrating on his playwriting, this book charts Shepard's various developments and shifts of direction, and the changing contexts in which his work appeared. Engaging, informative, and insightful, The Theatre of Sam Shepard is the definitive source on the works of this innovative and original writer.
Author : Matthew Roudané
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2002-05-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521777666
Few American playwrights have exerted as much influence on the contemporary stage as Sam Shepard. His plays are performed on and off Broadway and in all the major regional American theatres. They are also widely performed and studied in Europe, particularly in Britain, Germany and France, finding both a popular and scholarly audience. In this collection of seventeen original essays, American and European authors from different professional and academic backgrounds explore the various aspects of Shepard s career - his plays, poetry, music, fiction, acting, directing and film work. The volume covers the major plays, including Curse of the Starving Class, Buried Child, and True West, as well as other lesser known but vitally important works. A thorough chronology of Shepard s life and career, together with biographical chapters, a note from the legendary Joseph Chaikin, and an interview with the playwright, give a fascinating first-hand account of an exuberant and experimental personality.
Author : Bonnie Marranca
Publisher : New York : Performing Arts Journal Publications
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0933826133
The standard critical work on the author features two dozen essays and miscellaneous pieces by leading theatre critics, directors, and actors on the plays and productions of Shepard, from the beginning of his career. A special section by the author on his own work is also included.
Author : Johan Callens
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005-06-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781135298999
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Criticism
ISBN : 9781438116464
Sam Shepard is one of America's most prolific dramatists, as well as a screenplay writer, memoirist, and successful film actor. His irreverent, satirical, and nostalgic treatment of American popular culture has attracted a cult following as well as the re
Author : David Krasner
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118893272
A History of Modern Drama: Volume II explores a remarkable breadth of topics and analytical approaches to the dramatic works, authors, and transitional events and movements that shaped world drama from 1960 through to the dawn of the new millennium. Features detailed analyses of plays and playwrights, examining the influence of a wide range of writers, from mainstream icons such as Harold Pinter and Edward Albee, to more unorthodox works by Peter Weiss and Sarah Kane Provides global coverage of both English and non-English dramas – including works from Africa and Asia to the Middle East Considers the influence of art, music, literature, architecture, society, politics, culture, and philosophy on the formation of postmodern dramatic literature Combines wide-ranging topics with original theories, international perspective, and philosophical and cultural context Completes a comprehensive two-part work examining modern world drama, and alongside A History of Modern Drama: Volume I, offers readers complete coverage of a full century in the evolution of global dramatic literature.
Author : Johan Callens
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2005-06-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781135299064
These issues consist of the edited Proceedings of the Shepard conference, organized by the Belgian-Luxembourg American Studies Association and the Free University of Brussels (VUB), which took place in Brussels, 28-30 May 1993. It will be of interest to undergraduates and postgraduates, professors, critics, theater practitioners, writers and those with a keen interest in the fields of literature, theater studies and cultural studies.
Author : William W. Demastes
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1996-08-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780817308377
This book reconsiders realism on the American stage by addressing the great variety and richness of the plays that form the American theatre canon.
Author : E. Creedon
Publisher : Springer
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137527417
By concentrating on Sam Shepard's visual aesthetics, Emma Creedon argues that a consideration of Shepard's plays in the context of visual and theoretical Surrealism illuminates our understanding of his experimental approach to drama.
Author : Laura J. Graham
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015035759888
One of the most exciting and produced American playwrights of the second half of this century, Sam Shepard's writing career began in 1964 and continues today. This book examines the playwright's canon first from the perspective of dramatic analysis and intertextuality in terms of theme and performance vocabulary, then from the director's perspective in interpretation for performance. The book is useful to the scholar, the theatre professional, and the theatre goer. Shepard's dramaturgy is analyzed both in terms of dramatic and cinematic influences and of its originality. The author examines how Shepard has synthesized these influences into the unique contemporary dramatic form which Graham terms «Metarealism.»
Author : Leonard Wilcox
Publisher : Springer
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1993-02-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349225095
Rereading Shepard draws together 13 original theoretical perspectives on one of America's most important contemporary playwrights. Representing a range of critical appraoches - including semiotics, deconstruction, and feminism - the essays address recent debates emerging in Shepard criticism. These include the status of Shepard's texts within the modernist tradition on the one hand and a developing post-modernism on the other, and the feminist debate over Shepard's drama - does it reinforce a masculinist world or does it provide some oppositional stance toward patriarchal 'master narratives'?
Author : Les A. Wade
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1997-08-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0313289441
No dramatist in the recent history of the American theatre has gained more celebrity than Sam Shepard. Exploring a career that includes fifty stage and screen plays, four books of nondramatic writings, and over a dozen appearances in feature films, this work traces Shepard's rise from an Off-Off-Broadway renegade to a Hollywood leading man, and explores his evolution from counterculture to cultural icon. The study situates Shepard's career within the shifting production modes and economic contexts of the American entertainment industry, and views his popularity against the identity politics of postwar American culture. Through an analysis of his life, plays and screen roles, this book investigates how Shepard's dramatic voice and film persona address issues of American consensus and community. The study argues that Shepard's popularity—in an era of cultural diversification and dissent—owes much to nationalism and nostalgia and begs important questions concerning American myths, media representations, and the construction of an American audience.
Author : James A. Crank
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611171877
Understanding Sam Shepard investigates the notoriously complex and confusing dramatic world of Sam Shepard, one of America’s most prolific, thoughtful, and challenging contemporary playwrights. During his nearly fifty-year career as a writer, actor, director, and producer, Shepard has consistently focused his work on the ever-changing American cultural landscape. James A. Crank’s comprehensive study of Shepard offers scholars and students of the dramatist a means of understanding Shephard’s frequent experimentation with language, setting, characters, and theme. Beginning with a brief biography of Shepard, Crank shows how experiences in Shepard’s life eventually resonate in his work by exploring the major themes, unique style, and history of Shepard’s productions. Focusing first on Shepard’s early plays, which showcase highly experimental, frenetic explorations of fractured worlds, Crank discusses how the techniques from these works evolve and translate into the major works in his “family trilogy”: Curse of the Starving Class, the Pulitzer Prize–winning Buried Child, and True West. Shepard often uses elements from his past—his relationship with his father, his struggle for control within the family, and the breakdown of the suburban American dream—as major starting points in his plays. Shepard is a recipient of a Pulitzer Prize for Drama, eleven Obie Awards, and a Chicago Tribune Literary Prize for Lifetime Achievement. Augmented with an extensive bibliography, Understanding Sam Shepard is an ideal point of entrance into complex and compelling dramas of this acclaimed playwright.
