Julia A. Walker

Expressionism and Modernism in the American Theatre

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Produktbeschreibung

A study of the influence of new technologies on early twentieth-century American drama.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 664g
• ISBN-13: 9780521847476
• ISBN-10: 0521847478
• Artikelnr.: 22700682

Autorenporträt

Julia Walker is Assistant Professor of English and the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: 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'
Works cited.