Creating The Self In The Contemporary American Theatre

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Creating the Self in the Contemporary American Theatre

Author : Robert J. Andreach
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0809321785

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"Exploring the theatre from the 1960s to the present, Robert J. Andreach shows the various ways in which the contemporary American theatre creates a personal, theatrical, and national self." "Andreach argues that the contemporary American theatre creates multiple selves that reflect and give voice to the many communities within our multicultural society. These selves are fragmented and enclaved, however, which makes necessary a counter movement that seeks, through interaction among the various parts, to heal the divisions within, between, and among them." --Book Jacket.

Dramatic Structure in the Contemporary American Theatre

Author : Robert Andreach
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781938288340

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Dramatic Structure in the Contemporary American Theatre by Robert Andreach Pdf

In this follow-up to his 2012 The Contemporary American Dramatic Trilogy, Robert J. Andreach continues his unique study of dramatic structure as evidenced through the overarching themes of contemporary American trilogies. The themes of the first play in a trilogy, he shows, can be far different from those developed as the sequence continues, citing examples from playwrights as varied as David Rabe and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Quiara Alegráa Hudes. Looking at the ways structure in a tragedy can be substituted for the Aristotelian plot, Andreach makes clear that because creating or reinventing oneself can be such a primary motivating force in American culture, a character's failed attempt to change the structure or plot of his or her life may indeed be tragic. The dramatic trilogy has been flourishing for some time now in new works and revivals of older ones by American, British, and European playwrights, with examples such as the Hunger Games trilogy and the Fifty Shades trilogy moving more recently even into the popular sphere. Combining his skills as both a professional reviewer of theater and a literary critic, Robert Andreach is in a unique position to provide coherence to what most observers perceive as an unrelated welter of contemporary theatrical experiences.

Tragedy in the Contemporary American Theatre

Author : Robert J. Andreach
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780761864011

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Tragedy in the Contemporary American Theatre by Robert J. Andreach Pdf

This book refutes the claim that tragedy is no longer a vital and relevant part of contemporary American theatre. Tragedy in the Contemporary American Theatre examines plays by multiple contemporary playwrights and compares them alongside the works of America’s major twentieth-century tragedians: Eugene O’Neill, Arthur Miller, and Tennessee Williams. The book argues that tragedy is not only present in contemporary American theatre, but issues from an expectation fundamental to American culture: the pressure on characters to create themselves. Tragedy in the Contemporary American Theatre concludes that tragedy is vital and relevant, though not always in the Aristotelian model, the standard for traditional evaluation.

Contemporary American Drama

Author : Annette Saddik
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2007-09-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748630660

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Contemporary American Drama by Annette Saddik Pdf

This book explores the development of contemporary theatre in the United States in its historical, political and theoretical dimensions. It focuses on representative plays and performance texts that experiment with form and content, discussing influential playwrights and performance artists such as Tennessee Williams, Adrienne Kennedy, Sam Shepard, Tony Kushner, Charles Ludlum, Anna Deavere Smith, Karen Finley and Will Power, alongside avant-garde theatre groups. Saddik traces the development of contemporary drama since 1945, and discusses the cross-cultural impact of postwar British and European innovations on American theatre from the 1950s to the present day in order to examine the performance of American identity. She argues that contemporary American theatre is primarily a postmodern drama of inclusion and diversity that destabilizes the notion of fixed identity and questions the nature of reality.

Contemporary American Theatre

Author : Bruce King
Publisher : Springer
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781349215829

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Contemporary African American Women Playwrights

Author : Philip C. Kolin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2007-11-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781135866488

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Contemporary African American Women Playwrights by Philip C. Kolin Pdf

In the last 50 years, American and World theatre have been challenged and enriched by the rise to prominence of numerous female African American dramatists. Contemporary African American Women Playwrights is the first critical volume to explore the contexts and influences of these writers, and their exploration of black history and identity through a wealth of diverse, courageous and visionary dramas.

American Drama/critics

Author : Bert Cardullo
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131696473

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American Drama/critics by Bert Cardullo Pdf

"American Drama/Critics: Writings and Readings" is a collection of essays on acknowledged classics of American drama such as "Death of a Salesman," "The Glass Menagerie," and "Our Town," and on newer but no less esteemed works like David Mamet's "Glengarry Glen Ross" and Sam Shepard's "Buried Child." Included are interviews with the great American drama critics Eric Bentley and Stanley Kauffmann; a consideration of the practice of American dramaturgy; an analysis of the adaptation to film of several American dramas; and an examination of experimental playwriting and production in the United States, as seen in the work of Gertrude Stein as well as that of other, lesser-known avant-garde dramatists. This book's thesis is not only the generally accepted one that American drama is essentially a representational one and that its avant-garde experiments are just that--experimental detours that ultimate lead back to the main highway of realism and naturalism. The thesis of "Americam Drama/Critics" is also that the decline of American drama in the late twentieth to early twenty-first century is paralleled by, and even attributable to, the decline or disappearance of American dramatic criticism.

Drawing Upon the Past

Author : Robert J. Andreach
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015059978190

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Drawing Upon the Past by Robert J. Andreach Pdf

Contemporary American theatre re-creates and invokes classical theatre so as to generate interaction between the two theatres. Using selected works of fourteen playwrights, this book organizes the interaction into three sections: works dramatizing change and reconciliation, works dramatizing the inability or the unwillingness to change and reconcile, and works emphasizing various selves (personal, theatrical, national). By drawing on the past, the fourteen playwrights refine their art in the contemporary American theatre and their vision of contemporary American life.

Historical Dictionary of Contemporary American Theater

Author : James Fisher
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 1233 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781538123027

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Historical Dictionary of Contemporary American Theater by James Fisher Pdf

Historical Dictionary of Contemporary American Theater. Second Edition covers theatrical practice and practitioners as well as the dramatic literature of the United States of America from 1930 to the present. The 90 years covered by this volume features the triumph of Broadway as the center of American drama from 1930 to the early 1960s through a Golden Age exemplified by the plays of Eugene O’Neill, Elmer Rice, Thornton Wilder, Lillian Hellman, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, William Inge, Lorraine Hansberry, and Edward Albee, among others. The impact of the previous modernist era contributed greatly to this period of prodigious creativity on American stages. This volume will continue through an exploration of the decline of Broadway as the center of U.S. theater in the 1960s and the evolution of regional theaters, as well as fringe and university theaters that spawned a second Golden Age at the millennium that produced another – and significantly more diverse – generation of significant dramatists including such figures as Sam Shepard, David Mamet, Maria Irené Fornes, Beth Henley, Terrence McNally, Tony Kushner, Paula Vogel, Lynn Nottage, Suzan-Lori Parks, Sarah Ruhl, and numerous others. The impact of the Great Depression and World War II profoundly influenced the development of the American stage, as did the conformist 1950s and the revolutionary 1960s on in to the complex times in which we currently live. Historical Dictionary of the Contemporary American Theater, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 1.000 cross-referenced entries on plays, playwrights, directors, designers, actors, critics, producers, theaters, and terminology. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about American theater.

Reading Contemporary African American Drama

Author : Trudier Harris
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 0820488860

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Nostalgia in Jewish-American Theatre and Film, 1979-2004

Author : Ben Furnish
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0820461970

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Nostalgia in Jewish-American Theatre and Film, 1979-2004 by Ben Furnish Pdf

Nostalgia, a bittersweet yearning for the past, is an important element in Jewish-American performances of the late twentieth century. Numerous plays and films of this time use nostalgia to engage Jewish, including Yiddish, cultural themes and images. Nostalgia offers audiences a window through which to examine past and current social changes. These include American Jews' departure from Europe to America, the city for the suburbs, Yiddish for English, as well as the civil rights, women's, peace, and gay and lesbian movements, and other transformations. These performances illustrate how theatre and film transmit culture from generation to generation and between one ethnic community and the wider American scene.

Perspectives on Contemporary Spanish American Theatre

Author : Frank N. Dauster
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0838753450

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Perspectives on Contemporary Spanish American Theatre by Frank N. Dauster Pdf

"In this collection, nine specialists in Spanish American theatre examine social and aesthetic issues reflected in today's vital drama." "The essays in this volume reflect a pattern of interests rapidly becoming dominant among scholars. Several of them deal with questions of genre or focus on metatheatre and parody, theatrical techniques widespread in Latin America. The majority treat these topics in conjunction with their social context. Dominant themes include the question of whether there can be culture-specific genres, incorporating the extremely varied ethnic and cultural strands of the Spanish American social fabric, or the use (and reinterpretation) of tragic and comic structures and classical myths to express social marginality or demythologize received history. A number of essays focus on the problematic situation of women in Spanish American society and their struggle to achieve equality in a highly traditional culture. At the same time the authors examine the role of women in the theatre, both as protagonists and as creative artists, and their struggle to gain acceptance of nontraditional roles and lifestyles."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

American Studies

Author : Jack Salzman,American Studies Association
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1986-08-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521266882

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American Studies by Jack Salzman,American Studies Association Pdf

This is an annotated bibliography of 20th century books through 1983, and is a reworking of American Studies: An Annotated Bibliography of Works on the Civilization of the United States, published in 1982. Seeking to provide foreign nationals with a comprehensive and authoritative list of sources of information concerning America, it focuses on books that have an important cultural framework, and does not include those which are primarily theoretical or methodological. It is organized in 11 sections: anthropology and folklore; art and architecture; history; literature; music; political science; popular culture; psychology; religion; science/technology/medicine; and sociology. Each section contains a preface introducing the reader to basic bibliographic resources in that discipline and paragraph-length, non-evaluative annotations. Includes author, title, and subject indexes. ISBN 0-521-32555-2 (set) : $150.00.