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Walker, Julia A., 1964-

Expressionism and modernism in the American theatre : bodies, voices, words / Julia A. Walker. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005. - 1 online resource (xii, 300 pages) : illustrations - Cambridge studies in American theatre and drama ; 21 . - Cambridge studies in American theatre and drama ; 21. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Part I: Introduction; 1 Bodies: actors and artistic agency on the nineteenth-century stage; 2 Voices: oratory, expression, and the text/performance split; 3 Words: copyright and the creation of the performance "text"; Part II: Introduction; 4 The "unconscious autobiography" of Eugene O'Neill; 5 Elmer Rice and the cinematic imagination; 6 "I love a parade!": John Howard Lawson's minstrel burlesque of the American Dream; 7 Sophie Treadwell's "pretty hands"; Epilogue: "modern times"; Notes.

This study addresses the direct influence on American theatre of new technologies at the turn of the twentieth century. Walker argues that a specific form of drama - expressionism - developed in response to these technologies and to popular fears about them.

ISBN: 0511125607 (electronic bk.) 0511125186 9780511125188 9780511125607 (electronic bk.) 9780521847476 (hbk.) 0521847478 (hbk.) 0511126042 (electronic bk.) 9780511126048 (electronic bk.) 9780511486135 (ebook) 0511486138 (ebook) 9786610458370 6610458375 9780521108911 (paperback) 0521108918 (Cloth) 9780511199431 (electronic bk.) 0511199430 (electronic bk.)

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Subjects--Corporate Names:
Fürstliches Schauspielhaus Bad Pyrmont
Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld

Subjects--Chronological Terms:
1900-1999

Subjects--Topical Terms:
American drama--History and criticism.--20th century
Modernism (Literature)--United States.
Expressionism in literature.
Theater--United States.
Théâtre américain--Histoire et critique.--20e siècle
Modernisme (Littérature)--États-Unis.
Expressionnisme dans la littérature.
Théâtre--États-Unis.
DRAMA--American.
American drama.
Expressionism in literature.
Modernism (Literature)
Theater.
Expressionismus
Moderne
Theater
Théâtre américain (Littérature)
Modernisme (Littérature)
Expressionnisme.
Dramaturgie.
20e siècle.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States.
États-Unis.
USA.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PS338.M63 / W35 2005eb

Dewey Class. No.: 812.5209115

National Agricultural Library Call No.: PS338.M63 / (INTERNET)