German Expressionist Theatre : The Actor and the Stage

Kuhns, David F.

Cambridge University Press（2006/12発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 324 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780521035224
• DDC分類 792.0280943

Full Description

German Expressionist Theatre: The Actor and the Stage considers the powerfully stylized, anti-realistic styles of 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. This book describes three distinct Expressionist acting styles, all of which in their own ways attempted to show how symbolic stage performance could be a powerful rhetorical resource for a culture struggling to come to terms with the crises of historical change. The examination of Expressionist script and actor memoirs allows for an unprecedented focus on description and analysis of acting itself.

Contents

Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Abstraction and empathy: the philosophical background in the socio-economic foreground; 2. The poetics of Expressionist performance: contemporary models and sources; 3. Schrei ecstatic performance; 4. An 'Expressionist solution to the problem of theatre': Geist abstraction in performance; 5. Late Expressionist performance in Berlin: the Emblematic mode; Concluding observations; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.