Author: Thomas F. Connolly
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838637807
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
"Readers drawn to the "Roaring Twenties," gossip about the Great White Way, discussion of high, middle, and low-brow culture will seek out this book."--BOOK JACKET.
George Jean Nathan and the Making of Modern American Drama Criticism
Author: Thomas F. Connolly
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838637807
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
"Readers drawn to the "Roaring Twenties," gossip about the Great White Way, discussion of high, middle, and low-brow culture will seek out this book."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838637807
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
"Readers drawn to the "Roaring Twenties," gossip about the Great White Way, discussion of high, middle, and low-brow culture will seek out this book."--BOOK JACKET.
The Critic and the Drama
Author: George Jean Nathan
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838679647
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838679647
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Broadway and Corporate Capitalism
Author: M. Schwartz
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230623328
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Through an examination of plays, actors, reviews, and audience response of the period, this study traces the development of Broadway as a source of 'mature' American drama, and the simultaneous development of Professional-Managerial Class consciousness and habitus.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230623328
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Through an examination of plays, actors, reviews, and audience response of the period, this study traces the development of Broadway as a source of 'mature' American drama, and the simultaneous development of Professional-Managerial Class consciousness and habitus.
Continuum Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre
Author: Colin Chambers
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1847140017
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description
International in scope, this book is designed to be the pre-eminent reference work on the English-speaking theatre in the twentieth century. Arranged alphabetically, it consists of some 2500 entries written by 280 contributors from 20 countries which include not only top-level experts, but, uniquely, leading professionals from the world of theatre. A fascinating resource for anyone interested in theatre, it includes: - Overviews of major concepts, topics and issues; - Surveys of theatre institutions, countries, and genres; - Biographical entries on key performers, playwrights, directors, designers, choreographers and composers; - Articles by leading professionals on crafts, skills and disciplines including acting, design, directing, lighting, sound and voice.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1847140017
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description
International in scope, this book is designed to be the pre-eminent reference work on the English-speaking theatre in the twentieth century. Arranged alphabetically, it consists of some 2500 entries written by 280 contributors from 20 countries which include not only top-level experts, but, uniquely, leading professionals from the world of theatre. A fascinating resource for anyone interested in theatre, it includes: - Overviews of major concepts, topics and issues; - Surveys of theatre institutions, countries, and genres; - Biographical entries on key performers, playwrights, directors, designers, choreographers and composers; - Articles by leading professionals on crafts, skills and disciplines including acting, design, directing, lighting, sound and voice.
Passing Judgments
Author: George Jean Nathan
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838677223
Category : Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
George Jean Nathan (1882-1958) was formative influence on American letters in the first half of this century, and is generally considered the leading drama critic of his era. With H. L. Mencken, Nathan edited The Smart Set and founded and edited The American Mercury, journals that shaped opinion in the 1920s and 1930s. This series of reprints, individually introduced by the distinguished critic and novelist Charles Angoff, collects Nathan's penetrating, witty, and sometimes cynical drama criticism.
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838677223
Category : Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
George Jean Nathan (1882-1958) was formative influence on American letters in the first half of this century, and is generally considered the leading drama critic of his era. With H. L. Mencken, Nathan edited The Smart Set and founded and edited The American Mercury, journals that shaped opinion in the 1920s and 1930s. This series of reprints, individually introduced by the distinguished critic and novelist Charles Angoff, collects Nathan's penetrating, witty, and sometimes cynical drama criticism.
Messiah of the New Technique
Author:
Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809388134
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Messiah of the New Technique is a critical and political biography and a cultural and social history that focuses on Lawson's career in the theatre. Using a materialist methodology, Jonathan L. Chambers emphasizes the evolution and interplay of the playwright's artistic vision and political ideology, considering his art as both a documentation of this evolution and a product of the socio-political and cultural matrix in which he was immersed.
Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809388134
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Messiah of the New Technique is a critical and political biography and a cultural and social history that focuses on Lawson's career in the theatre. Using a materialist methodology, Jonathan L. Chambers emphasizes the evolution and interplay of the playwright's artistic vision and political ideology, considering his art as both a documentation of this evolution and a product of the socio-political and cultural matrix in which he was immersed.
Highbrow/lowdown
Author: David Savran
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472116924
Category : Jazz
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
The culture clash that permanently changed American theater
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472116924
Category : Jazz
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
The culture clash that permanently changed American theater
Historical Dictionary of Contemporary American Theater
Author: James Fisher
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538123029
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1233
Book Description
Historical Dictionary of the Contemporary American Theater, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 1.000 cross-referenced entries on plays, playwrights, directors, designers, actors, critics, producers, theaters, and terminology.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538123029
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1233
Book Description
Historical Dictionary of the Contemporary American Theater, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 1.000 cross-referenced entries on plays, playwrights, directors, designers, actors, critics, producers, theaters, and terminology.
The A to Z of American Theater
Author: James Fisher
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810870479
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
The A to Z of American Theater: Modernism focuses on legitimate drama, both as influenced by European modernism and as impacted by the popular entertainment that also enlivened the era. This is accomplished through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced entries on plays; music; playwrights; great performers like Maude Adams, Otis Skinner, Julia Marlowe, and E.H. Sothern; producers like David Belasco, Daniel Frohman, and Florenz Ziegfeld; critics; architects; designers; and costumes.
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810870479
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
The A to Z of American Theater: Modernism focuses on legitimate drama, both as influenced by European modernism and as impacted by the popular entertainment that also enlivened the era. This is accomplished through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced entries on plays; music; playwrights; great performers like Maude Adams, Otis Skinner, Julia Marlowe, and E.H. Sothern; producers like David Belasco, Daniel Frohman, and Florenz Ziegfeld; critics; architects; designers; and costumes.
Genus Envy
Author:
Publisher: Cambria Press
ISBN: 1621969231
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Publisher: Cambria Press
ISBN: 1621969231
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description