Dances Of Vice Horror Ecstasy By Anita Berber Sebastian Droste

Author : Anita Berber,Sebastian Droste
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : German poetry
ISBN : 0954295374

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Dances of vice, horror, & ecstasy by Anita Berber & Sebastian Droste by Anita Berber,Sebastian Droste Pdf

Anita Berber (1899-1928) and Sebastian Droste (1892-1927) were the most notorious dancers of Weimar Germany whose works (like their personal lives) were suffused with drugs, decadence and polysexuality. This rare book ... has its origins around a series of dance events performed by the couple in 1922 and consists in part of a number of Expressionist poems related to those evenings ... [and] includes essays, stage designs for projected works and a series of extraordinary photographs commissioned from Madame D'Ora (Dora Kalmus). The finished product should be seen as much as decadent literature as it is a landmark text of dance history and document of Weimar period excess ... --from publisher's web site.

Author : Anita Berber,Sebastian Droste
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1923
Category : Modern dance
ISBN : OCLC:246035422

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Die Tänze des Lasters, des Grauens und der Ekstase by Anita Berber,Sebastian Droste Pdf

A multi-faceted work by Anita Berber and Sebastian Droste that contains poetry and images of the pair in the performance of a dance piece titled "Die Tänze des Lasters, des Grauens und der Ekstase" (Dances of vice, horror, and ecstasy). The black and white images of Berber and Droste in costume are mounted to coated boards. A small selection of drawings by Berber are hand-colored, as are a number of plates that contain stage and costume designs by Harry Täuber. Portraits of Berber and Droste by the artist Felix Harta are also included.

Author : Karl Eric Toepfer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520206630

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Empire of Ecstasy by Karl Eric Toepfer Pdf

"A massive achievement. . . . Toepfer respects the body, wants to understand movement as the primary medium of ideas, and gives women the central role they actually played in this aesthetic and intellectual discourse."Marcia B. Siegel, author of The Shapes of Change"

Author : Mel Gordon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114206324

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The Seven Addictions and Five Professions of Anita Berber by Mel Gordon Pdf

The Seven Addictions and Five Professions of Anita Berber chronicles a remarkable career, including dozens of photographs and drawings that recreate Anita's "Repertoire of the Damned." Book jacket.

Author : Edward Ross Dickinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107196223

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Dancing in the Blood by Edward Ross Dickinson Pdf

The book explores the revolutionary impact of modern dance on European culture in the early twentieth century. Edward Ross Dickinson uncovers modern dance's place in the emerging 'mass' culture of the modern metropolis and reveals the connections between dance, politics, culture, religion, the arts, psychology, entertainment, and selfhood.

Author : Mel Gordon
Publisher : Feral House
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781932595970

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Voluptuous Panic by Mel Gordon Pdf

This seductive sourcebook of rare visual delights from pre-Nazi, Cabaret-period “Babylon on the Spree” has the distinction of being praised both by scholars and avatars of contemporary culture, inspiring hip club goers, filmmakers, gay historians, graphic designers, and musicians like the Dresden Dolls and Marilyn Manson. This expanded edition includes “Sex Magic and the Occult,” documenting German pagan cults and their often-bizarre erotic rituals, including instructions for entering into the “Sexual Fourth Dimension.” Mel Gordon is professor of theater at the University of California, Berkeley, and is also the author of Erik Jan Hanussen: Hitler’s Jewish Clairvoyant (Feral House).

Author : Irene Berti,Maria G. Castello,Carla Scilabra
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350075399

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Ancient Violence in the Modern Imagination by Irene Berti,Maria G. Castello,Carla Scilabra Pdf

The collected essays in this volume focus on the presentation, representation and interpretation of ancient violence – from war to slavery, rape and murder – in the modern visual and performing arts, with special attention to videogames and dance as well as the more usual media of film, literature and theatre. Violence, fury and the dread that they provoke are factors that appear frequently in the ancient sources. The dark side of antiquity, so distant from the ideal of purity and harmony that the classical heritage until recently usually called forth, has repeatedly struck the imagination of artists, writers and scholars across ages and cultures. A global assembly of contributors, from Europe to Brazil and from the US to New Zealand, consider historical and mythical violence in Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus and the 2010 TV series of the same name, in Ridley Scott's Gladiator, in the work of Lars von Trier, and in Soviet ballet and the choreography of Martha Graham and Anita Berber. Representations of Roman warfare appear in videogames such as Ryse: Son of Rome and Total War, as well as recent comics, and examples from both these media are analysed in the volume. Finally, interviews with two artists offer insight into the ways in which practitioners understand and engage with the complex reception of these themes.

Author : Hilary Holladay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Beat generation
ISBN : 1936833212

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American Hipster by Hilary Holladay Pdf

American Hipster: The Life of Herbert Huncke, The Times Square Hustler Who Inspired the Beat Movement tells the tale of a New York sex worker and heroin addict whose unrepentant deviance caught the imagination of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs. Teetering between exhaustion and existential despair, Huncke (rhymes with “junky”) often said, “I’m beat, man.” His line gave Kerouac the label for a down-at-the-heels generation seeking spiritual sustenance as well as “kicks” in post-war America. Recognizable portraits of Huncke appear in Junky (1953), Burroughs's acerbic account of his own heroin addiction; “Howl” (1956), the long, sexually explicit poem that launched Ginsberg’s career; and On the Road (1957), Kerouac’s best-selling novel that immortalized the Beat Generation. But it wasn’t just Huncke the character that fascinated these writers: they loved his stories. Kerouac called him a “genius” of a storyteller and “a perfect writer.” His famous friends helped Huncke find publishers for his stories. Biographies of Kerouac and the others pay glancing tribute to Huncke’s role in shaping the Beat Movement, yet no one until now has told his entire life story. American Hipster explores Huncke’s youthful escapades in Chicago; his complicated alliances with the Beat writers and with sex researcher Alfred Kinsey; and his adventures on the road, at sea, and in prison. It also covers his tumultuous relationship with his partner Louis Cartwright, whose 1994 murder remains unsolved, and his idiosyncratic career as an author and pop-culture icon. Written by Hilary Holladay, a professor of American literature, the book offers a new way of looking at the whole Beat Movement. It draws on Holladay’s interviews with Huncke's friends and associates, including representatives of the literary estates of Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs, and Huncke; her examination of Huncke’s unpublished correspondence and journals at Columbia University; and her longtime study of the Beat Movement.

Author : Alice A. Kuzniar
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0804739951

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The Queer German Cinema by Alice A. Kuzniar Pdf

On German homosexual cinema

Author : Carmel Finnan
Publisher : Königshausen & Neumann
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Arts
ISBN : 3826032411

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Practicing Modernity by Carmel Finnan Pdf

Vorwort - I. Sharp: Women and Weimar Berlin - C. Ujma: Theories of Masculinity and the Avant-Garde - T. Elsaesser: The Camera in the Kitchen: Grete Schütte-Lihotsky and Domestic Modernity - A. Baumhoff: Women in the Bauhaus: Gender Issues in Weimar Culture - D. Rowe: Painting herself. Lotte Laserstein between subject and object - U. Seiderer: Between Minor Sculpture and Promethean Creativity. The Position of Käthe Kollwitz in Weimar's Discourse on Art - C. Finnan: Photographers between Challenge and Conformity. Yva's Career and Ruvre - K. Bruns: Thea von Harbou. Writing Skills and Film Aesthetics - J. Trimborn: Leni Riefenstahl's Career before Hitler: Success-stories of an Outsider - C. Schönfeld: Lotte Reiniger and the Art of Animation - A. Lareau: The Blonde Lady Sings. Women in Weimar Cabaret - I. C. Gil: 'Jede Frau ist eine Tänzerin...' The Gender of Dance in Weimar Culture - B. Maier-Katkin: Anna Seghers, Irmgard Keun. A Discourse on Emancipation and Social Circumstance - C. Ujma: Gabriele Tergit and Berlin: Women, City and Modernity - C. Finnan: Marieluise Fleißer's Self-Reflections on the Female Writer - J. Redmann: Else Lasker-Schüler versus the Weimar Publishing Industry. Genius, Gender, Politics, and the Literary Market - J. Warren: Contrasted Heroines in Two Plays by Ilse Langner. A Dramatist at 'Weimar's End' - L. Soares: Vicky Baum and Gina Kaus: Vienna, Berlin, Hollywood

Author : Christiane Schönfeld
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 721 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781628923759

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The History of German Literature on Film by Christiane Schönfeld Pdf

This book tells the story of German-language literature on film, beginning with pioneering motion picture adaptations of Faust in 1897 and early debates focused on high art as mass culture. It explores, analyzes and contextualizes the so-called 'golden age' of silent cinema in the 1920s, the impact of sound on adaptation practices, the abuse of literary heritage by Nazi filmmakers, and traces the role of German-language literature in exile and postwar films, across ideological boundaries in divided Germany, in New German Cinema, and in remakes and movies for cinema as well as television and streaming services in the 21st century. Having provided the narrative core to thousands of films since the late 19th century, many of German cinema's most influential masterpieces were inspired by canonical texts, popular plays, and even children's literature. Not being restricted to German adaptations, however, this book also traces the role of literature originally written in German in international film productions, which sheds light on the interrelation between cinema and key historical events. It outlines how processes of adaptation are shaped by global catastrophes and the emergence of nations, by materialist conditions, liberal economies and capitalist imperatives, political agendas, the mobility of individuals, and sometimes by the desire to create reflective surfaces and, perhaps, even art. Commercial cinema's adaptation practices have foregrounded economic interest, but numerous filmmakers throughout cinema history have turned to German-language literature not simply to entertain, but as a creative contribution to the public sphere, marking adaptation practice, at least potentially, as a form of active citizenship.

Author : Ankhi Mukherjee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781316512180

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After Lacan by Ankhi Mukherjee Pdf

This book explores the phases of Jacques Lacan's career and examines the past, present, and future of psychoanalysis.

Author : Adam Alston
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350237063

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Staging Decadence by Adam Alston Pdf

How is decadence being staged today – as a practice, issue, pejorative, and as a site of pleasure? Where might we find it, why might we look for it, and who is decadence for? This book is the first monographic study of decadence in theatre and performance. Adam Alston makes a passionate case for the contemporary relevance of decadence in the thick of a resurgent culture war by focusing on its antithetical relationship to capitalist-led growth, progress, and intensified productivity. He argues that the qualities used to disparage the study and practice of theatre and performance are the very things we should embrace in celebrating their value – namely, their spectacular uselessness, wastefulness, outmodedness, and abundant potential for producing forms of creativity that flow away from the ends and excesses of capitalism. Alston covers an eclectic range of examples by Julia Bardsley (UK), Hasard Le Sin (Finland), jaamil olawale kosoko (USA), Toco Nikaido (Japan), Martin O'Brien (UK), Toshiki Okada (Japan), Marcel·lí Antúnez Roca (Spain), Normandy Sherwood (USA), The Uhuruverse (USA), Nia O. Witherspoon (USA), and Wunderbaum (Netherlands). Expect ruminations on monstrous scenographies, catatonic choreographies, turbo-charged freneticism, visions of the apocalypse – and what might lie in its wake.

Author : Sebastian Faulks
Publisher : Random House
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781804944141

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The Fatal Englishman by Sebastian Faulks Pdf

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Compelling and stunningly written' THE TIMES 'Wildly exciting . . . a classic' SPECTATOR 'Flawless . . . poetic . . . superbly portrayed' DAILY TELEGRAPH Three men. Three short, glittering lives. Young English painter Christopher Wood arrives in Paris in 1921 set on becoming the next great master. By day he studies; by night he attends parties with Picasso and Cocteau before paying too high a price for success. Richard Hilary, a confident if unprincipled Spitfire pilot, is suffering from terrible burns after being shot down. But the operations to restore him haven't deterred him from returning to action. And Jeremy Wolfenden, the cleverest of his set at All Souls College, leaves it all behind to report on the Cold War. But his louche private life makes him a plaything for the intelligent services, taking him on a fateful journey between East and West. The Fatal Englishman is a stunning tale of three short lives that burned brightly from a master storyteller.

Author : Anne Stibbs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Crossword puzzles
ISBN : OCLC:1259497052

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Crossword Lists by Anne Stibbs Pdf