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 | | German Expressionist Theatre: The Actor and the Stage by David F. Kuhns ISBN-10: 9780521583404 ISBN-10: 0-521-58340-3 ISBN-13: 9780521583404 ISBN-13: 978-0-521-58340-4 Hardcover 1997-08-28 Cambridge University Press Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description German Expressionist Theatre considers the powerfully stylized, antirealistic styles of symbolic acting on the German Expressionist stage from 1916 to 1921. It relates this striking departure from the dominant European acting tradition of realism to the specific cultural crises that enveloped the German nation during the course of its involvement in World War I. The examination of portions of previously untranslated Expressionist scripts and actor memoirs allows for an unprecedented focus on description and analysis of the acting itself. | ||
Book Description German Expressionist Theatre and Performance in Weimar considers the powerfully stylised, anti-realistic styles of symbolic acting on the German Expressionist stage from 1916 to 1921. It relates this striking departure from the dominant European acting tradition of realism to the specific cultural crises that enveloped the German nation during the course of its involvement in World War I. The examination of previously untranslated portions of Expressionist script and actor memoirs allows for an unprecedented focus on description and analysis of the acting itself. | ||
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A thoroughly researched and informative book Prof. Kuhns is evidently a brilliant scholar, and he has done an especially fine job of describing the actual practices of the directors and actors of the early 20th-century theatrical movement called Expressionism. And I admired his final observations on what the movement bequeathed to Brecht -- so much so that I hope he will go forward and give us the as-yet unwritten, in-depth study of Brecht's actual stage practice. There are times when this author succumbs to fashionable scholarly jargon and others when he neglects to sketch adequately the social and historical moment. But I found plenty to absorb in this meaty study. | ||