Download or read book Stage Designers in Early Twentieth Century America written by E. Essin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-12-23 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By casting designers as authors, cultural critics, activists, entrepreneurs, and global cartographers, Essin tells a story about scenic images on the page, stage, and beyond that helped American audiences see the everyday landscapes and exotic destinations from a modern perspective.
Download or read book The Revolutions of Stage Design in the 20th Century written by Denis Bablet and published by Leon Amiel. This book was released on 1977 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is aiming to grasp the evolution of stage design in an entirely international spirit from the end of illusionary realism till present day. It reveals the work of designers and painters who are trying to create a world of stage design, to define space, fill it with forms, sings, color and lighting which will speak to each and every one of us.
Download or read book American Scenic Design and Freelance Professionalism written by David Bisaha and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2022-11-29 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "By asking readers to understand how the profession of scenic design was constructed and drawing attention to the work of talented but overlooked women, queer, and Black designers, this book expands the canon of design history and gives insight into how and why some designers were excluded from the professionalization of scenic design"--
Download or read book The Group Theatre written by Helen Krich Chinoy and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-11-06 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Group Theatre , a groundbreaking ensemble collective, started the careers of many top American theatre artists of the twentieth century and founded what became known as Method Acting. This book is the definitive history, based on over thirty years of research and interviews by the foremost theatre scholar of the time period, Helen Chinoy.
Download or read book Performance Reconstruction and Spanish Golden Age Drama written by L. Vidler and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-09 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanish Golden Age drama has resurfaced in recent years, however scholarly analysis has not kept pace with its popularity. This book problematizes and analyzes the approaches to staging reconstruction taken over the past few decades, including historical, semiotic, anthropological, cultural, structural, cognitive and phenomenological methods.
Download or read book America s First Regional Theatre written by J. Ullom and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cleveland Play House has mirrored the achievements and struggles of both the city of Cleveland and the American theatre over the past one hundred years. This book challenges the established history (often put forward by the theatre itself) and long-held assumptions concerning the creation of the institution and its legacy.
Download or read book The Man Who Designed the Future written by B. Alexandra Szerlip and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2017-04-25 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before there was Steve Jobs, there was Norman Bel Geddes. A ninth-grade dropout who found himself at the center of the worlds of industry, advertising, theater, and even gaming, Bel Geddes designed everything from the first all-weather stadium, to Manhattan's most exclusive nightclub, to Futurama, the prescient 1939 exhibit that envisioned how America would look in the not-too-distant 60s. In The Man Who Designed the Future, B. Alexandra Szerlip reveals precisely how central Bel Geddes was to the history of American innovation. He presided over a moment in which theater became immersive, function merged with form, and people became consumers. A polymath with humble Midwestern origins, Bel Geddes’ visionary career would launch him into social circles with the Algonquin roundtable members, stars of stage and screen, and titans of industry. Light on its feet but absolutely authoritative, this first major biography is a must for anyone who wants to know how America came to look the way it did.
Download or read book The Education of a Circus Clown written by David Carlyon and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-28 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2017 Freedley Award Finalist, Theatre Library Association 2016 Best Circus Book of the Year, Stuart Thayer Prize, Circus Historical Society The 1960s American hippie-clown boom fostered many creative impulses, including neo-vaudeville and Ringling's Clown College. However, the origin of that impulse, clowning with a circus, has largely gone unexamined. David Carlyon, through an autoethnographic examination of his own experiences in clowning, offers a close reading of the education of a professional circus clown, woven through an eye-opening, sometimes funny, occasionally poignant look at circus life. Layering critical reflections of personal experience with connections to wider scholarship, Carlyon focuses on the work of clowning while interrogating what clowns actually do, rather than using them as stand-ins for conceptual ideas or as sentimental figures.
Download or read book Uncle Tom s Cabin on the American Stage and Screen written by John W. Frick and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No play in the history of the American Stage has been as ubiquitous and as widely viewed as Uncle Tom's Cabin . This book traces the major dramatizations of Stowe's classic from its inception in 1852 through modern versions on film. Frick introduce the reader to the artists who created the plays and productions that created theatre history.
Download or read book Cultivating National Identity through Performance written by N. Stubbs and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-09-18 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As outdoor entertainment venues in American cities, pleasure gardens were public spaces where people could explore what it meant to be American. Stubbs examines how these venues helped form American identity and argues the gardens allowed for the exploration of what it meant to be American through performance, both on and off the stage.
Download or read book W C Fields from Burlesque and Vaudeville to Broadway written by A. Wertheim and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-09 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: W. C. Fields was a virtuoso comedian, often called a comic genius, legendary iconoclast, and "Great Man," who brought so much laughter to millions while enduring so much anguish. This book explores his little-known, long stage career from 1898 to 1930, which had a major influence on his comedy and screen presence.
Download or read book Design of the 20th Century written by Charlotte Fiell and published by Taschen America Llc. This book was released on 2012 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text is a journey through the shapes and colours, forms and functions of design history in the 20th century. It contains an A-Z of designers and design schools, which builds into a complete picture of contemporary living.
Download or read book Audrey Wood and the Playwrights written by M. Barranger and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-01-07 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Tennessee Williams and Carson McCullers to Arthur Kopit and Brian Friel, agent Audrey Wood encouraged and guided the unique talents of playwrights in the Broadway theatre of her day. Her quiet determination and burning enthusiasm brought America's finest mid-century playwrights to prominence and altered stage history.
Download or read book Staging the Slums Slumming the Stage written by J. Westgate and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on traditional archival research, reception theory, cultural histories of slumming, and recent work in critical theory on literary representations of poverty, Westgate argues that the productions of slum plays served as enactments of the emergent definitions of the slum and the corresponding ethical obligations involved therein.
Download or read book A Sustainable Theatre written by B. Witham and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-06-13 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Begun as an audacious experiment, for thirty years the Hedgerow Theatre prospered as America's most successful repertory company. While known for its famous alumnae (Ann Harding and Richard Basehart), Hedgerow's legacy is a living library of over 200 productions created by Jasper Deeter's idealistic and determined pursuit of 'truth and beauty.'
Download or read book The Theatre of the Occult Revival written by E. Lingan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-19 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the religious foundations, political and social significance, and aesthetic aspects of the theatre created by the leaders of the Occult Revival. Lingan shows how theatre contributed to the fragmentation of Western religious culture and how contemporary theatre plays a part in the development of alternative, occult religions.
Download or read book Entertaining Children written by G. Arrighi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-05-07 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children have been exploited as performers and wooed energetically as consumers throughout history. These essays offer scholarly investigations into the employment and participation of children in the entertainment industry with examples drawn from historical and contemporary contexts.
