German Expressionist Theatre
The Actor and the Stage
- Author: David F. Kuhns, Geneva College, Pennsylvania
- Date Published: August 1997
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521583404
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German Expressionist Theatre considers the powerfully stylized, antirealistic 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 crises that enveloped the German nation during the course of its involvement in World War I. The examination of portions of previously untranslated Expressionist scripts and actor memoirs allows for an unprecedented focus on description and analysis of the acting itself.
Read more- Examines German Expressionist theatre from a performance point of view
- Contains previously untranslated portions of Expressionist scripts and actor memoirs
- Looks in detail at key works and productions
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"...fresh insights into German expressionism and its significance.... His research is thorough.... ...Kuhns provides informative descriptions of the settings, lighting, theater architecture, and costumes. Most useful to graduate students, researchers, and professionals." Choice
See more reviews"I can recommend this volume for the library of anyone interested in German Expressionism and theater history generally." Monatshefte
"...prsents theroetical concepts clearly and back them up with detailed examples. It is based on a firm foundation of research, using such primary sources as reviews, memoirs,manifestoes and scripts, analyzed in light of pertinent theorical material." Pamela S. Saur, Germanic Notes and Reviews
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- Date Published: August 1997
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521583404
- length: 324 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 160 x 31 mm
- weight: 0.657kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Abstraction and empathy: the philosophical background in the socio-economic foreground
2. The poetics of Expressionist performance: contemporary models and sources
3. Schrei ecstatic performance
4. An 'Expressionist solution to the problem of theatre': Geist abstraction in performance
5. Late Expressionist performance in Berlin: the Emblematic mode
Concluding observations
Notes
Select bibliography
Index.
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