The American stage and the Great Depression :a cultural history of the grotesque
- 作者: Fearnow, Mark,
- 出版: Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press 1997.
- 稽核項: ix, 214 p. :ill. ;24 cm.
- 叢書名: Cambridge studies in American theatre and drama ;
- 標題: Theater United States -- History -- 20th century. , History and criticism. , Theater , Depressions in literature. , American drama , Grotesque in literature. , American drama 20th century -- History and criticism. , Depressions , Depressions United States -- History -- 20th century. , History
- ISBN: 0521561116 , 9780521561112
- 附註: 教育部顧問室九十二年度「表演藝術資料中心計畫」. Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-206) and index.
- 系統號: 005140930
- 資料類型: 圖書
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The American Stage and the Great Depression: A Cultural History of the Grotesque proposes a correlation between the divided "mind" of America during the depression and popular stage works of the era. Theatre works such as Jack Kirkland's comic-horrific adaptation of Tobacco Road, Olsen and Johnson's "scream-lined revue", Hellzapoppin, and successful plays by Robert E. Sherwood, Clare Boothe Luce, and S. N. Behrman are interpreted as theatrical reflections of depression culture's sense of being trapped between a discredited past and a nightmarish future. The author analyzes the America of the 1930s as an era of the "grotesque", in which the irreconcilable were forced into tense and dynamic coexistence, and by examining these works of theatre as products of particular historical circumstances, argues for a strong connection between cultural history and theatre history.
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