Title Expressionism and modernism in the American theatre : bodies, voices, words / Julia A. Walker.

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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005.

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Description	1 online resource (xii, 300 pages) : illustrations.
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Series	Cambridge studies in American theatre and drama ; 21
	Cambridge studies in American theatre and drama ; 21.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Part I: Introduction; 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"; Notes.
Summary	This study addresses the direct influence on American theatre of new technologies at the turn of the twentieth century. Walker argues that a specific form of drama - expressionism - developed in response to these technologies and to popular fears about them.
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Subject	Fürstliches Schauspielhaus Bad Pyrmont.
	Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld.
	American drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
	American drama.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	Modernism (Literature) -- United States.
	Modernism (Literature)
	United States.
	Expressionism in literature.
	Expressionism in literature.
	Theater -- United States.
	Theater.
Chronological Term	1900-1999
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Electronic books.
	Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form:	Print version: Walker, Julia A., 1964- Expressionism and modernism in the American theatre. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005 (DLC) 2005047508
ISBN	0511125607 (electronic book)
	0511125186
	9780511125188
	9780511125607 (electronic book)
	9780521847476 (hardback)
	0521847478 (hardback)
	0511126042 (electronic book)
	9780511126048 (electronic book)
	9780511486135 (ebook)
	0511486138 (ebook)
	9786610458370
	6610458375
	0521847478 (Cloth)
Standard No.	9780521847476
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