Expressionism and modernism in the American theatre : bodies, voices, words / Julia A. Walker.

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Walker, Julia A, 1964-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Cambridge studies in American theatre and drama ; 21.Publication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 300 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0511125607
0511125186
9780511125188
9780511125607
9780521847476
0521847478
0511126042
9780511126048
9780511486135
0511486138
9786610458370
6610458375
9780521108911
0521108918
9780511199431
0511199430

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Expressionism and modernism in the American theatre.DDC classification:

812.5209115 22

LOC classification:

PS338.M63 W35 2005eb

Other classification:

HU 1770
HU 1784

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Contents:

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.

Summary: 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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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