Book Description
This book reconsiders realism on the American stage by addressing the great variety and richness of the plays that form the American theatre canon.
Author : William W. Demastes
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 33,73 MB
Release : 1996-08-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0817308377
This book reconsiders realism on the American stage by addressing the great variety and richness of the plays that form the American theatre canon.
Author : Brenda Murphy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 16,79 MB
Release : 1987-08-27
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521327114
The importance of Native American realism is traced through a study of the evolution of dramatic theory from the early 1890s through World War I and the uniquely American innovations in realistic drama between world wars.
Author : Jonathan Wadhams Curvin
Publisher :
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 40,53 MB
Release : 1941
Category : American drama
ISBN :
Author : Dorothy Parker
Publisher : Sterling/Main Street
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,86 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Drama
ISBN :
This anthology gathers some of Modern Drama's most distinguished pieces on America's four most important playwrights since Eugene O'Neill: Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee, and Sam Shepard. While Parker has chosen these authors "as representative of the main stream of American dramatic tradition," she does not offer a general overview of the plays or playwrights, nor any general orientation to aid the reader. These essays are written by scholars for serious students of American drama. The majority of the essays concentrate on a single play, and while they appeared decades ago, all were major articles in the field. Old but solid, they should still be of interest to students and scholars alike.
Author : William Robert Bray
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 48,80 MB
Release : 2013-08-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107433843
From its beginnings, the American film industry has profited from bringing popular and acclaimed dramatic works to the screen. This is the first book to offer a comprehensive account, focusing on key texts, of how Hollywood has given a second and enduring life to such classics of the American theater as Long Day's Journey into Night, A Streetcar Named Desire and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Each chapter is written by a leading scholar and focuses on Broadway's most admired and popular productions. The book is ideally suited for classroom use and offers an otherwise unavailable introduction to a subject which is of great interest to students and scholars alike.
Author : Michael Vanden Heuvel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 21,82 MB
Release : 2019-11-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1350022608
The Decades of Modern American Drama series provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1930s to 2009 in eight volumes. Each volume equips readers with a detailed understanding of the context from which work emerged: an introduction considers life in the decade with a focus on domestic life and conditions, social changes, culture, media, technology, industry and political events; while a chapter on the theatre of the decade offers a wide-ranging and thorough survey of theatres, companies, dramatists, new movements and developments in response to the economic and political conditions of the day. The work of the four most prominent playwrights from the decade receives in-depth analysis and re-evaluation by a team of experts, together with commentary on their subsequent work and legacy. A final section brings together original documents such as interviews with the playwrights and with directors, drafts of play scenes, and other previously unpublished material. The major playwrights and their works to receive in-depth coverage in this volume include: * David Rabe: The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel; Sticks and Bones; and Streamers; * Sam Shepard: Curse of the Starving Class; Buried Child; and True West; * Ntozake Shange: For colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf; Spell #7; and Boogie-Woogie Landscapes * Richard Foreman: Sophia = (Wisdom) Part 3; The Cliffs; Pandering to the Masses: A Misrepresentation; and Rhoda in Potatoland (Her Fall-Starts).
Author : Chris Vials
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 24,13 MB
Release : 2010-04-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1604733497
Realism for the Masses is an exploration of how the concept of realism entered mass culture, and from there, how it tried to remake “America.” The literary and artistic creations of American realism are generally associated with the late nineteenth century. But this book argues that the aesthetic actually saturated American culture in the 1930s and 1940s and that the Left social movements of the period were in no small part responsible. The book examines the prose of Carlos Bulosan and H. T. Tsiang; the photo essays of Margaret Bourke-White in Life magazine; the bestsellers of Erskine Caldwell and Margaret Mitchell; the boxing narratives of Clifford Odets, Richard Wright, Nelson Algren; and the Hollywood boxing film, radio soap operas, and the domestic dramas of Lillian Hellman and Shirley Graham, and more. These writers and artists infused realist aesthetics into American mass culture to an unprecedented degree and also built on a tradition of realism in order to inject influential definitions of “the people” into American popular entertainment. Central to this book is the relationship between these mass cultural realisms and emergent notions of pluralism. Significantly, Vials identifies three nascent pluralisms of the 1930s and 1940s: the New Deal pluralism of “We're the People” in The Grapes of Wrath; the racially inclusive pluralism of Vice President Henry Wallace's “The People's Century”; and the proto-Cold War pluralism of Henry Luce's “The American Century.”
Author : William W. Demastes
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 35,96 MB
Release : 1988-11-15
Category : Drama
ISBN :
Demastes draws a distinction between the genus realism and its central species, naturalism. He studies, from an historical perspective, the growth of realism into the foremost aesthetic form in 20th century theater, and focuses on American playwrights who have used realism to challenge outdated and essentially naturalist thought, thereby infusing realism with fresh and contemporary perspectives of the world around them. Demastes analyzes the unique contributions of David Rabe, David Mamet, Sam Shepard, Charles Fuller, Beth Henley, and Marsha Norman, and assesses their overall critical reception. ISBN 0-313-26320-5: $35.95.
Author : Mark Hawkins-Dady
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 1024 pages
File Size : 44,11 MB
Release : 1996
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9781884964206
First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Anthony Kubiak
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 13,2 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472068111
American history as theater, and theater as the heart of American life