Violence In American Drama
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Author |
: Alfonso Ceballos Muñoz |
Publisher |
: McFarland |
Total Pages |
: 296 |
Release |
: 2011-09-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780786488971 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0786488972 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis Violence in American Drama by : Alfonso Ceballos Muñoz
This interdisciplinary collection of 19 essays addresses violence on the American stage. Topics include the revolutionary period and the role of violence in establishing national identity, violence by and against ethnic groups, and females as perpetrators and victims, as well as state and psychological violence and violence within the family. The book works to assess whether representing violence may cause its cessation, or whether it generates further destruction. Featured playwrights include Susan Glaspell, Sophie Treadwell, Tennessee Williams, William Inge, Amiri Baraka, Luis Valdes, Cherrie Moraga, Sam Shepard, Tony Kushner, Neil LaBute, John Guare, Rebecca Gilman, and Heather MacDonald.
Author |
: Robert Appelbaum |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 196 |
Release |
: 2017-11-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781786605047 |
ISBN-13 |
: 178660504X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Aesthetics of Violence by : Robert Appelbaum
Offering an ambitious study of the aesthetics of violence across art, literature, film and theatre, this volume brings together traditional German aesthetic and social theory with the modern problem of violence in art. Written in an engaging style, the book includes examples ranging from Homer and Shakespeare to slasher films and performance art.
Author |
: Koritha Mitchell |
Publisher |
: University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages |
: 274 |
Release |
: 2011-10-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780252093524 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0252093526 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis Living with Lynching by : Koritha Mitchell
Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, 1890–1930 demonstrates that popular lynching plays were mechanisms through which African American communities survived actual and photographic mob violence. Often available in periodicals, lynching plays were read aloud or acted out by black church members, schoolchildren, and families. Koritha Mitchell shows that African Americans performed and read the scripts in community settings to certify to each other that lynching victims were not the isolated brutes that dominant discourses made them out to be. Instead, the play scripts often described victims as honorable heads of households being torn from model domestic units by white violence. In closely analyzing the political and spiritual uses of black theatre during the Progressive Era, Mitchell demonstrates that audiences were shown affective ties in black families, a subject often erased in mainstream images of African Americans. Examining lynching plays as archival texts that embody and reflect broad networks of sociocultural activism and exchange in the lives of black Americans, Mitchell finds that audiences were rehearsing and improvising new ways of enduring in the face of widespread racial terrorism. Images of the black soldier, lawyer, mother, and wife helped readers assure each other that they were upstanding individuals who deserved the right to participate in national culture and politics. These powerful community coping efforts helped African Americans band together and withstand the nation's rejection of them as viable citizens. The Left of Black interview with author Koritha Mitchell begins at 14:00. An interview with Koritha Mitchell at The Ohio Channel.
Author |
: Édouard Louis |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 225 |
Release |
: 2018-06-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780374170592 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0374170592 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis History of Violence by : Édouard Louis
"Originally published in French in 2016 by Seuil, France, as Historie de la violence"--Title page verso.
Author |
: Barrie Gunter |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 355 |
Release |
: 2003-01-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781135653392 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1135653399 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis Violence on Television by : Barrie Gunter
Concern about violence on television has been publicly debated for the past 50 years. TV violence has repeatedly been identified as a significant causal agent in relation to the prevalence of crime and violence in society. Critics have accused the medium of presenting excessive quantities of violence, to the point where it is virtually impossible for viewers to avoid it. This book presents the findings of the largest British study of violence on TV ever undertaken, funded by the broadcasting industry. The study was carried out at the same time as similar industry-sponsored research was being conducted in the United States, and one chapter compares findings from Britain and the U.S.A. The book concludes that it is misleading to accuse all broadcasters of presenting excessive quantities of violence in their schedules. This does not deny that problematic portrayals were found. But the most gory, horrific and graphic scenes of violence were generally contained within broadcasts available on a subscription basis or in programs shown at times when few children were expected to be watching. This factual analysis proves that broadcasters were meeting their obligations under their national regulatory codes of practice.
Author |
: Nancy Taylor Porter |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 415 |
Release |
: 2017-12-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783319570068 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3319570064 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis Violent Women in Contemporary Theatres by : Nancy Taylor Porter
This book brings together the fields of theatre, gender studies, and psychology/sociology in order to explore the relationships between what happens when women engage in violence, how the events and their reception intercept with cultural understandings of gender, how plays thoughtfully depict this topic, and how their productions impact audiences. Truthful portrayals force consideration of both the startling reality of women's violence — not how it's been sensationalized or demonized or sexualized, but how it is — and what parameters, what possibilities, should exist for its enactment in life and live theatre. These women appear in a wide array of contexts: they are mothers, daughters, lovers, streetfighters, boxers, soldiers, and dominatrixes. Who they are and why they choose to use violence varies dramatically. They stage resistance and challenge normative expectations for women. This fascinating and balanced study will appeal to anyone interested in gender/feminism issues and theatre.
Author |
: Laura L. Mielke |
Publisher |
: University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages |
: 297 |
Release |
: 2019-02-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780472131051 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0472131052 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis Provocative Eloquence by : Laura L. Mielke
In the mid-19th century, rhetoric surrounding slavery was permeated by violence. Slavery’s defenders often used brute force to suppress opponents, and even those abolitionists dedicated to pacifism drew upon visions of widespread destruction. Provocative Eloquence recounts how the theater, long an arena for heightened eloquence and physical contest, proved terribly relevant in the lead up to the Civil War. As antislavery speech and open conflict intertwined, the nation became a stage. The book brings together notions of intertextuality and interperformativity to understand how the confluence of oratorical and theatrical practices in the antebellum period reflected the conflict over slavery and deeply influenced the language that barely contained that conflict. The book draws on a wide range of work in performance studies, theater history, black performance theory, oratorical studies, and literature and law to provide a new narrative of the interaction of oratorical, theatrical, and literary histories of the nineteenth-century U.S.
Author |
: Severino João Medeiros Albuquerque |
Publisher |
: Wayne State University Press |
Total Pages |
: 306 |
Release |
: 1991 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0814322441 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780814322444 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis Violent Acts by : Severino João Medeiros Albuquerque
Albuquerque analyzes the use of violence in Latin American theatre from the 1950s through the 1980s. He argues that in the face of repression and torture, some playwrights counter victimization with art as urgent as street confrontation. A study from both Spanish and Portuguese-speaking countries. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author |
: C. W. E. Bigsby |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 364 |
Release |
: 1982-07-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521271169 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521271165 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Critical Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Drama: Volume 1, 1900-1940 by : C. W. E. Bigsby
Eugene O'Neill - Clifford Odets - Left-wing theatre - Black drama - Thornton Wilder - Lillian Hellman - Luigi Pirandello - Arthur Miller.
Author |
: Julia Listengarten |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 313 |
Release |
: 2019-11-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781350024762 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1350024767 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis Modern American Drama: Playwriting 2000-2009 by : Julia Listengarten
The Decades of Modern American Drama series provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1930s to 2009 in eight volumes. Each volume equips readers with a detailed understanding of the context from which work emerged: an introduction considers life in the decade with a focus on domestic life and conditions, social changes, culture, media, technology, industry and political events; while a chapter on the theatre of the decade offers a wide-ranging and thorough survey of theatres, companies, dramatists, new movements and developments in response to the economic and political conditions of the day. The work of the four most prominent playwrights from the decade receives in-depth analysis and re-evaluation by a team of experts, together with commentary on their subsequent work and legacy. A final section brings together original documents such as interviews with the playwrights and with directors, drafts of play scenes, and other previously unpublished material. The major playwrights and their plays to receive in-depth coverage in this volume include: * Theresa Rebeck: Omnium Gatherum (2003), Mauritius (2007), and The Understudy (2008); * Sarah Ruhl: Eurydice (2003), Clean House (2004), and In the Next Room (or the Vibrator Play) (2009); * Lynn Nottage: Intimate Apparel (2003), Fabulation or Re-Education of Undine (2004), and Ruined (2008); * Charles Mee: Big Love (2000), Wintertime (2005), and Hotel Cassiopeia (2006).