German expressionist theatre : the actor and the stage /

German Expressionist theatre: the actor and the stage considers the powerfully stylized and anti-realistic styles of symbolic acting on the German Expressionist stage from 1916 to 1921. It relates this striking departure from the dominant European acting tradition of realism to the specific cultural...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kuhns, David F.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Theater > Germany > History > 20th century.
Experimental theater > Germany > History > 20th century.
German drama > 20th century > History and criticism.
Acting.
Expressionism in literature.
Théâtre > Allemagne > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Théâtre expérimental > Allemagne > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Théâtre allemand > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Art dramatique.
Expressionnisme dans la littérature.
acting.
PERFORMING ARTS > Theater > History & Criticism.
Expressionism.
Experimental theater.
German drama.
Theater.
Expressionismus
Theater
Expressionisme.
Acteren.
Germany.
Deutschland
Duitsland.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Abstraction and empathy: the philosophical background in the socio-economic foreground
  • The poetics of Expressionist performance: contemporary models and sources
  • Schrei ecstatic performance
  • An "Expressionist solution to the problem of theatre": Geist abstraction in performance
  • Late Expressionist performance in Berlin: the emblematic mode
  • Concluding observations.

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