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Eleonora Duse and Cenere (Ashes)

Author : Maria Pia Pagani
Publisher : McFarland
Release Date : 2017-05-16
ISBN : 1476663750
Pages : 187 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (476 Download)

Download PDF or read online Eleonora Duse and Cenere (Ashes) Book by Maria Pia Pagani and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : The 1916 silent film Cenere (Ashes) features the great Italian actress Eleonora Duse (1858-1924) in her only cinematic role. In her meditative approach to her craft, she reprised for the screen all the "mother roles" she had created for the theater. Marking the film's 100th anniversary, this collection of essays brings together for the first time in English a range of scholarship. The difficulties involved in the making of the film are explored--Duse's perfectionism was too advanced for the Italian movie industry of the 1910s. Her work is discussed within the creative, political and historical context of the silent movie industry as it developed in wartime Italy.

Speech-Gesture Complex

Author : Anthony Paraskeva
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2013-09-30
ISBN : 0748684913
Pages : 256 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (748 Download)

Download PDF or read online Speech-Gesture Complex Book by Anthony Paraskeva and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : This study examines the representation of gesture in modernist writing, performance and cinema.

Actresses on the Victorian Stage

Author : Gail Marshall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1998-05-07
ISBN : 9780521620161
Pages : 268 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (62 Download)

Download PDF or read online Actresses on the Victorian Stage Book by Gail Marshall and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-05-07 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : Gail Marshall argues that the professional and personal history of the Victorian actress was largely defined by her negotiation with the sculptural metaphor, and that this was authorized and determined by the Ovidian myth of Pygmalion and Galatea. Drawing on evidence of theatrical fictions, visual representations and popular culture's assimilation of the sculptural image, as well as theatrical productions, she examines some of the manifestations of the sculptural metaphor on the legitimate English stage, and its implications for the actress in the later nineteenth century. Within the legitimate theatre, the 'Galatea-aesthetic' positioned actresses as predominantly visual and sexual commodities whose opportunities for interpretative engagement with their plays were minimal. This dominant aesthetic was effectively challenged only at the end of the century, with the advent of the 'New' drama, and the emergence of a body of autobiographical writings by actresses.

Labyrinth

Author : Jim McGhee
Publisher : University Press of America
Release Date : 2004
ISBN : 9780761827528
Pages : 262 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (827 Download)

Download PDF or read online Labyrinth Book by Jim McGhee and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2004 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : In Labyrinth, McGhee chronicles Nigro's stories, plays, settings, and characters of almost 200 monologue, one-act and full-length plays. Given the breadth of Nigro's characters and exciting plots, Labyrinth is a useful resource for directors, actors, and enthusiasts in both professional and repertory theater. In addition, Labyrinth introduces readers to generations of gripping tales about extraordinary people.

Playing Sick

Author : Meredith Conti
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2018-07-27
ISBN : 1351787705
Pages : 196 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (351 Download)

Download PDF or read online Playing Sick Book by Meredith Conti and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-07-27 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : Few life occurrences shaped individual and collective identities within Victorian-era society as critically as witnessing or suffering from illness. The prevalence of illness narratives within late nineteenth-century popular culture was made manifest on the period’s British and American stages, where theatrical embodiments of illness were indisputable staples of actors’ repertoires. Playing Sick: Performances of Illness in the Age of Victorian Medicine reconstructs how actors embodied three of the era’s most provocative illnesses: tuberculosis, drug addiction, and mental illness. In placing performances of illness within wider medicocultural contexts, Meredith Conti analyzes how such depictions confirmed or resisted salient constructions of diseases and the diseased. Conti’s case studies, which range from Eleonora Duse’s portrayal of the consumptive courtesan Marguerite Gautier to Henry Irving’s performance of senile dementia in King Lear, help to illuminate the interdependence of medical science and theatre in constructing nineteenth-century illness narratives. Through reconstructing these performances, Conti isolates from the period’s acting practices a lexicon of embodied illness: a flexible set of physical and vocal techniques that performers employed to theatricalize the sick body. In an age when medical science encouraged a gradual decentering of the patient from their own diagnosis and treatment, late nineteenth-century performances of illness symbolically restored the sick to positions of visibility and consequence.

On Flinching

Author : Tiffany Watt Smith
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2014-05-22
ISBN : 0191004359
Pages : 230 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (191 Download)

Download PDF or read online On Flinching Book by Tiffany Watt Smith and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : While the end of the nineteenth century is often associated with the rise of objectivity and its ideal of a restrained observer, scientific experiments continued to create emotional, even theatrical, relationships between scientist and his subject. On Flinching focuses on moments in which scientific observers flinched from sudden noises, winced at the sight of an animal's pain or cringed when he was caught looking, as ways to consider a distinctive motif of passionate and gestured looking in the laboratory and beyond. It was not their laboratory machines who these scientific observers most closely resembled, but the self-consciously emotional theatrical audiences of the period. Tiffany Watt-Smith offers close readings of four experiments performed by the naturalist Charles Darwin, the physiologist David Ferrier, the neurologist Henry Head, and the psychologist Arthur Hurst. Bringing together flinching scientific observers with actors and spectators in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century theatre, it places the history of scientific looking in its wider cultural context, arguing that even at the dawn of objectivity the techniques and problems of the stage continued to haunt scientific life. In turn, it suggests that by exploring the ways recoiling, shrinking and wincing becoming paradigmatic spectatorial gestures in this period, we can understand the ways Victorians thought about looking as itself an emotional and gestured performance.

Lost in Willipaq

Author : Rob Hunter
Publisher : Rob Hunter
Release Date : 2008-09
ISBN : 0615240690
Pages : 257 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (615 Download)

Download PDF or read online Lost in Willipaq Book by Rob Hunter and published by Rob Hunter. This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : Forays into the Fantastic: Sci-Fi and Fantasy, Slipstream and Magical Realism. Previously published stories by the author. You are invited to browse the complete compendium of lovers, losers, and part-time demons. I'm glad to have you as a reader. Enjoy.

The Theory of the Modern Stage

Author : Eric Bentley
Publisher : Penguin UK
Release Date : 2008-01-31
ISBN : 0141917849
Pages : 512 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (141 Download)

Download PDF or read online The Theory of the Modern Stage Book by Eric Bentley and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2008-01-31 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : In The Theory of the Modern Stage, leading drama critic, Eric Bentley, brings together landmark writings by dramatists, directors and thinkers who have had a profound effect on the theatre since the mid nineteenth century, from Adolphe Appia to Émile Zola. Here, Antonin Artaud sets out a manifesto for a Theatre of Cruelty, Bertolt Brecht discusses the tension between entertainment and instruction in experimental drama and Bernard Shaw defends himself as a realist, while W. B. Yeats describes the creation of a People’s Theatre. The ideas of theatre’s great makers are revealed by their best expositors, as Eric Bentley writes about Stanislavsky belief in the importance of emotional memory when creating a dramatic role and Arthur Symons considers Richard Wagner and the relationship between genius, art and nature.

Martin Buber's Life and Work

Author : Maurice S. Friedman
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Release Date : 1988
ISBN : 9780814319475
Pages : 1444 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (319 Download)

Download PDF or read online Martin Buber's Life and Work Book by Maurice S. Friedman and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 1444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : Martin Buber's Life and Work is a complete reprint of Maurice Friedman's monumental three-volume biography. Friedman covers Buber's life from his work on I and Thou to the challenges of Nazi Germany and prewar Palestine. He charts Buber's activities on behalf of Jewish-Arab rapprochement, his dialogue with Dag Hammarskjold, and comments on the philosopher's last years, his death, and his legacy to world Jewry.

Silent Films, 1877Ð1996

Author : Robert K. Klepper
Publisher : McFarland
Release Date : 2005-01-21
ISBN : 1476604843
Pages : 596 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (476 Download)

Download PDF or read online Silent Films, 1877Ð1996 Book by Robert K. Klepper and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2005-01-21 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : This film reference covers 646 silent motion pictures, starting with Eadweard Muybridge’s initial motion photography experiments in 1877 and even including The Taxi Dancer (1996). Among the genres included are classics, dramas, Westerns, light comedies, documentaries and even poorly produced early pornography. Masterpieces such as Joan the Woman (1916), Intolerance (1916) and Faust (1926) can be found, as well as rare titles that have not received critical attention since their original releases. Each entry provides the most complete credits possible, a full description, critical commentary, and an evaluation of the film’s unique place in motion picture history. Birth dates, death dates, and other facts are provided for the directors and players where available, with a selection of photographs of those individuals. The work is thoroughly indexed.

The Theatrical 'world'.

Author : William Archer
Publisher :
Release Date : 1895
ISBN :
Pages : 476 pages
Rating : 4.D/5 ( Download)

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The Theatrical 'world' of 1894

Author : William Archer
Publisher :
Release Date : 1895
ISBN :
Pages : 470 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (319 Download)

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The Theatrical 'world' of 1893-1897

Author : William Archer
Publisher :
Release Date : 1895
ISBN :
Pages : 474 pages
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Download PDF or read online The Theatrical 'world' of 1893-1897 Book by William Archer and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis :

Notable American Women, 1607-1950

Author : Radcliffe College
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1971
ISBN : 9780674627345
Pages : 2172 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (627 Download)

Download PDF or read online Notable American Women, 1607-1950 Book by Radcliffe College and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 2172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : Contains biographical sketches of women whose achievements have contributed to the nation's history

My Life

Author : Isadora Duncan
Publisher : DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-08-01
ISBN :
Pages : 298 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (859 Download)

Download PDF or read online My Life Book by Isadora Duncan and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "My Life" by Isadora Duncan. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Education of a Wandering Man

Author : Louis L'Amour
Publisher : Bantam
Release Date : 2008-04-29
ISBN : 0553899082
Pages : 240 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (553 Download)

Download PDF or read online Education of a Wandering Man Book by Louis L'Amour and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2008-04-29 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : From his decision to leave school at fifteen to roam the world, to his recollections of life as a hobo on the Southern Pacific Railroad, as a cattle skinner in Texas, as a merchant seaman in Singapore and the West Indies, and as an itinerant bare-knuckled prizefighter across small-town America, here is Louis L'Amour's memoir of his lifelong love affair with learning—from books, from yondering, and from some remarkable men and women—that shaped him as a storyteller and as a man. Like classic L'Amour fiction, Education of a Wandering Man mixes authentic frontier drama--such as the author's desperate efforts to survive a sudden two-day trek across the blazing Mojave desert--with true-life characters like Shanghai waterfront toughs, desert prospectors, and cowboys whom Louis L'Amour met while traveling the globe. At last, in his own words, this is a story of a one-of-a-kind life lived to the fullest . . . a life that inspired the books that will forever enable us to relive our glorious frontier heritage.

Speech and Drama

Author : Rudolf Steiner
Publisher : SteinerBooks
Release Date : 2007-10-24
ISBN : 9780880101424
Pages : 424 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (11 Download)

Download PDF or read online Speech and Drama Book by Rudolf Steiner and published by SteinerBooks. This book was released on 2007-10-24 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : In this course, designed for students and professionals in the stage arts, Rudolf Steiner begins with a fundamental and spiritually-rooted appreciation of human speech and what actually takes place during human communication. Speech is a spiritual activity as well as an art form, lending itself to real interaction with both higher spiritual worlds and the human world of social conversation. Steiner shows that speech is a powerful tool for any serious dramatist in conveying the reality of worlds, whether visible or invisible, to the individual souls in the audience. This is an essential book for anyone involved in speech work, communication arts, and many kinds of therapies.