The director's prism : E.T.A. Hoffmann and the Russian theatrical avant-garde /
The Director's Prism investigates how and why three of Russia's most innovative directors - Vsevolod Meyerhold, Alexander Tairov, and Sergei Eisenstein - used the fantastical tales of German Romantic writer E.T.A. Hoffmann to reinvent the rules of theatrical practice. Because the rise of t...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Evanston, Illinois :
Northwestern University Press,
2016.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Hoffmann's prism
- Prologue/polemic: "Unnecessary truth"
- Under the sign of Hoffmann
- Refraction
- Meyerhold-Dapertutto: Framing the grotesque
- Prologue/polemic: "The cricket on the hearth, or, At the keyhole"
- Enter Doctor Dapertutto
- Dapertutto's Three Oranges: the scenario, the studio, and the journal
- Interlude: inspector general (1926)
- Epilogue: A waterless flood
- Tairov-Celionati: mime-drama and kaleidoscopic commedia
- Prologue/ polemic: "The dusk of the dawns"
- Mime-drama and the new theater
- Interlude: Princess Brambilla: a Kamerny Capriccio after Hoffmann (1920)
- Epilogue: An independent path
- Peregrinus Tyss meets Pipifax: Eisenstein, the grotesque, and the attraction
- Prologue/polemic: Tarelkin's Death
- The theatrical adventures of Mr. Peregrinus Tyss
- Tyss's Moscow experiments
- Interlude: Pipifax's pantomime: Columbine's garter (1922)
- Epilogue: Through theater to film
- The afterlife of a death jubilee
- Hoffmann's Jubilee (1922)
- The afterlife of refracted light
- Appendix A. Three essays from Love for three oranges: The journal of Doctor Dapertutto
- Hoffmaniana
- Open letter from the authors of the divertissement Love for three oranges to A.A. Gvozdev
- Comedy of pure joy: Ludwig Tieck's Puss in boots
- Appendix B. Columbine's veil
- Appendix C. Pierrette's veil
- Appendix D. Columbine's garter.