Expressionism and Modernism in the American Theatre
Bodies, Voices, Words
Although often dismissed as a minor offshoot of the better-known German movement, expressionism on the American stage represents a critical phase in the development of American dramatic modernism. Situating expressionism within the context of early twentieth-century American culture, Walker demonstrates how playwrights who wrote in this mode were responding both to new communications technologies and to the perceived threat they posed to the embodied act of meaning. At a time when mute bodies gesticulated on the silver screen, ghostly voices emanated from tin horns, and inked words stamped out the personality of the hand that composed them, e…
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- ISBN: 978-0-511-12390-0
- EAN: 9780511123900
- Produktnummer: 13804679
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
- Seitenangabe: 0 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 8'466 KB
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