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Modernism on Stage

Juliet Bellow
Modernism on Stage Book PDF

Author : Juliet Bellow
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351558044

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Modernism on Stage restores Serge Diaghilev?s Ballets Russes to its central role in the Parisian art world of the 1910s and 1920s. During those years, the Ballets Russes? stage served as a dynamic forum for the interaction of artistic genres - dance, music and painting - in a mixed-media form inspired by Richard Wagner?s Gesamtkunstwerk (total work of art). This interdisciplinary study combines a broad history of Diaghilev?s troupe with close readings of four ballets designed by canonical modernist artists: Pablo Picasso, Sonia Delaunay, Henri Matisse, and Giorgio de Chirico. Experimental both in concept and form, these productions redefine our understanding of the interconnected worlds of the visual and performing arts, elite culture and mass entertainment in Paris between the two world wars. This volume traces the ways in which artists working with the Ballets Russes adapted painterly styles to the temporal, three-dimensional and corporeal medium of ballet. Analyzing interactions among sets, costumes, choreography, and musical accompaniment, the book establishes what the Ballets Russes' productions looked like and how audiences reacted to them. Juliet Bellow brings dance to bear upon modernist art history as more than a source of imagery or ornament: she spotlights a complex dialogue among art forms that did not preclude but rather enhanced artists? interrogation of the limits of medium.

Stage Fright

Martin Puchner
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Author : Martin Puchner
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2003-04-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780801877766

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Grounded equally in discussions of theater history, literary genre, and theory, Martin Puchner's Stage Fright: Modernism, Anti-Theatricality, and Drama explores the conflict between avant-garde theater and modernism. While the avant-garde celebrated all things theatrical, a dominant strain of modernism tended to define itself against the theater, valuing lyric poetry and the novel instead. Defenders of the theater dismiss modernism's aversion to the stage and its mimicking actors as one more form of the old "anti-theatrical" prejudice. But Puchner shows that modernism's ambivalence about the theater was shared even by playwrights and directors and thus was a productive force responsible for some of the greatest achievements in dramatic literature and theater. A reaction to the aggressive theatricality of Wagner and his followers, the modernist backlash against the theater led to the peculiar genre of the closet drama—a theatrical piece intended to be read rather than staged—whose long-overlooked significance Puchner traces from the theatrical texts of Mallarmé and Stein to the dramatic "Circe" chapter of Joyce's Ulysses. At times, then, the anti-theatrical impulse leads to a withdrawal from the theater. At other times, however, it returns to the stage, when Yeats blends lyric poetry with Japanese Nôh dancers, when Brecht controls the stage with novelistic techniques, and when Beckett buries his actors in barrels and behind obsessive stage directions. The modernist theater thus owes much to the closet drama whose literary strategies it blends with a new mise en scène. While offering an alternative history of modernist theater and literature, Puchner also provides a new account of the contradictory forces within modernism.

Performance and Modernity

Julia A. Walker
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Author : Julia A. Walker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108833066

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Performance and Modernity by Julia A. Walker Pdf

This book argues that ideas first take shape in the human body, appearing on stage in new styles of performance.

The Theatre of Eugene O’Neill

Kurt Eisen
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Author : Kurt Eisen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474238427

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The Theatre of Eugene O’Neill by Kurt Eisen Pdf

Named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year 2018 The Theatre of Eugene O'Neill offers a new comprehensive overview of O'Neill's career and plays in the context of the American theatre. Organised thematically, it considers his modernist intervention in the theatre, offers readers detailed analysis of the plays, and assesses the recent resurgence in his reputation and new approaches to staging his work. It includes a study of all his major plays-The Emperor Jones, The Hairy Ape, The Iceman Cometh, Long Day's Journey Into Night, A Moon for the Misbegotten and Desire Under the Elms-besides numerous other full length and one act dramas. Eugene O'Neill is generally credited with inventing modern American drama, in a time of cultural ferment and lively artistic and intellectual change. Yet O'Neill's theatrical instincts were always shaped by American stage traditions that were inextricable from his sense of himself and his own national culture. This study shows that his theatrical modernism represents not so much a break from these traditions as a reinvention of their scope and significance in the context of international stage modernism, offering an image of national culture and character that opens new possibilities for the stage while remaining rooted in its past. Kurt Eisen traces O'Neill's modernism throughout the dramatists's work: his attempts to break from the themes, plots, and moral conventions of the traditional melodramatic theatre; his experiments in stagecraft and theme, and their connection to traditional theatre and his European modernist contemporaries; the turn toward direct and indirect self-representation; and his critique of the family and of American 'pipe dreams' and the allure of success. The volume additionally features four contributed essays providing further critical perspectives on O'Neill's work, alongside a chronology of the writer's life and times.

Modernism and Scottish Theatre since 1969

Mark Brown
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Author : Mark Brown
Publisher : Springer
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783319986395

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Modernism and Scottish Theatre since 1969 by Mark Brown Pdf

This book argues that Scottish theatre has, since the late 1960s, undergone an artistic renaissance, driven by European Modernist aesthetics. Combining detailed research and analysis with exclusive interviews with ten leading figures in modern Scottish drama, the book sets out the case for the last half-century as the strongest period in the history of the Scottish stage. Mark Brown traces the development of Scottish theatre’s Modernist revolution from the arrival of influential theatre director Giles Havergal at the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow in 1969 through to the advent of the National Theatre of Scotland in 2006. Finally, the book contemplates the future of Scotland’s theatrical renaissance. It is essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary theatre and/or the modern history of live drama in Scotland.

Modernism and Opera

Richard Begam,Matthew Wilson Smith
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Author : Richard Begam,Matthew Wilson Smith
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421420622

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The Theatre of Eugene O'Neill

Kurt Eisen
The Theatre of Eugene O Neill Book PDF

Author : Kurt Eisen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1474238440

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The Theatre of Eugene O'Neill by Kurt Eisen Pdf

"The Theatre of Eugene O'Neill offers a new comprehensive overview of O'Neill's career and plays in the context of the American theatre. Organized thematically, it considers his modernist intervention in the theatre, offers readers detailed analysis of the plays, and assesses the recent resurgence in his reputation and new approaches to staging his work. It includes a study of all his major plays - The Emperor Jones, The Hairy Ape, The Iceman Cometh, Long Day's Journey into Night, A Moon for the Misbegotten, and Desire Under the Elms - besides numerous other full-length and one-act dramas." -- Back cover.

Against Theatre

A. Ackerman,M. Puchner
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Author : A. Ackerman,M. Puchner
Publisher : Springer
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230289086

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Against Theatre by A. Ackerman,M. Puchner Pdf

Against Theatre shows that the most prominent writers of modern drama shared a radical rejection of the theatre as they knew it. Together with designers, composers and film makers, they plotted to destroy all existing theatres. But from their destruction emerged the most astonishing innovations of modernist theatre.

Transformations of Musical Modernism

Erling E. Guldbrandsen,Julian Johnson
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Author : Erling E. Guldbrandsen,Julian Johnson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107127210

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Transformations of Musical Modernism by Erling E. Guldbrandsen,Julian Johnson Pdf

This collection brings fresh perspectives to bear upon key questions surrounding the composition, performance and reception of musical modernism.

American Legal Thought from Premodernism to Postmodernism

Stephen M. Feldman
American Legal Thought from Premodernism to Postmodernism Book PDF

Author : Stephen M. Feldman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2000-01-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780198026969

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American Legal Thought from Premodernism to Postmodernism by Stephen M. Feldman Pdf

The intellectual development of American legal thought has progressed remarkably quickly form the nation's founding through today. Stephen Feldman traces this development through the lens of broader intellectual movements and in this work applies the concepts of premodernism, modernism, and postmodernism to legal thought, using examples or significant cases from Supreme Court history. Comprehensive and accessible, this single volume provides an overview of the evolution of American legal thought up to the present.

Flann O'Brien & Modernism

Julian Murphet,Ronan McDonald,Sascha Morrell
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Author : Julian Murphet,Ronan McDonald,Sascha Morrell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781623564421

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Flann O'Brien & Modernism by Julian Murphet,Ronan McDonald,Sascha Morrell Pdf

Flann O'Brien & Modernism brings a much-needed refreshment to the state of scholarship on this increasingly recognised but still widely misunderstood 'second generation' modernist. Rather than construe him as a postmodernist, it correctly locates O'Brien's work as the product of a late modernist sensibility and cultural context. Similarly, while there should be no doubt of his Irishness, and his profound debts to Irish language, history and culture, this collection seeks to understand O'Brien's nationally sensitive achievement as the work of an internationalist whose preoccupations reflect global modernist trends. The distinct themes and concerns tracked in Flann O'Brien & Modernism include characterization in branching narrative forms; the ethics and paradoxes of naming; parody and homage; lies and deception; theatricality; sexuality; technology and transport; and the inevitable matter of drink and intoxication. Taken together, these specific topics construct a mosaic image of O'Brien as an exemplary modernist auteur, abreast of all the most salient philosophical and technical concerns affecting literary production in the period immediately before and after World War Two.

Modernism to Realism on the Soviet Stage

Nick Worrall
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Author : Nick Worrall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-11
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521103967

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Modernism to Realism on the Soviet Stage by Nick Worrall Pdf

This is the first book to deal with the work of three important Soivet theatre directors - Alexander Tairov, Evgeni Vakhtangov and Nikolai OkHlopkov - who, although familiar names in the West, are not often the subjects of full-length studies. The present one therefore sets out to introduce their work to theatre specialists and non-specialists alike, analysing individual productions and placing them within the context of their time. The active working life of the three directors spans, in varying stages, the period of revolution and civil war with its accompanying radical artistic innovations; the conservative phase of socialist realism in the 1930s and 1940s; and the more flexible and creative artistic years of the late 1950s and 1960s. The book contains a number of photographs of the original productions as well as a chronology of theatrical and historical events. Worrall's study will be of interest to students and scholars of Russian studies and theatre history.

Modernism and the Idea of the Crowd

Judith Paltin
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Author : Judith Paltin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108842235

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Modernism and the Idea of the Crowd by Judith Paltin Pdf

This book argues that literary modernists engaged creatively with modernity's expanding forms of collective experience and performative identities; their work clarifies how popular subjectivity evolves from a nineteenth-century liberal citizenry to the contemporary sense of a range of political multitudes struggling with conditions of oppression.

Modernism and Performance

Olga Taxidou
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Author : Olga Taxidou
Publisher : Red Globe Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11-06
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015073897806

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Modernism and Performance by Olga Taxidou Pdf

The idea of performance as distinct artistic practice emerges in the context of modernity. This guide to modernism and performance introduces key developments and debates of the period (the rise of the director, new theories of acting, new modes of production, complex relationships to classical and oriental drama); debates that helped to create new languages of performance. It suggests that our understanding of the workings of performance in the period might help to reconfigure our general understanding of modernism.

Cinematic Modernism and Contemporary Film

Howard Finn
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Author : Howard Finn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350242579

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Cinematic Modernism and Contemporary Film by Howard Finn Pdf

Cinema was the most important new artistic medium of the twentieth century and modernism was the most important new aesthetic movement across the arts in the twentieth century. However, what exactly is the relationship between cinema and modernism? Cinematic Modernism and Contemporary Film explores how in the early twentieth century cinema came to be seen as one of the new technologies which epitomised modernity and how cinema itself reflected ideas, hopes and fears concerning modern life. Howard Finn examines the emergence of a new 'international style' of cinema, combining a poetic aesthetic of the image with genre-based fictional narrative and documentary realism. He provides concise accounts of how theorists such as André Bazin, Siegfried Kracauer, Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Rancière have discussed this cinematic aesthetic, clarifying debates over terms such as 'realism', 'classical' and 'avant-garde' as well as recent controversies over terms such as 'slow cinema' and 'vernacular modernism'. He further argues the influence of modernism through close readings of many contemporary films, including films by Abbas Kiarostami, Béla Tarr, Jia Zhangke, and Angela Schanelec. Drawing on a broad range of examples, including Soviet montage, Italian neorealism, postwar new waves and the 'new cinema' of Taiwan and Iran, this book explores the cultural significance of modernism and its lasting influence over cinema.