The American stage and the Great Depression :a cultural history of the grotesque
- 作者: Fearnow, Mark,
- 出版: Cambridge ;New York : Cambridge University Press 2006.
- 版本: Digitally printed first paperback ed.
- 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 History -- 20th century. , History
- ISBN: 0521033624 , 9780521033626
- 附註: 103年科技部補助人文及社會科學研究圖書設備計畫規劃主題:藝術學:全球化與劇場跨界. First published 1997. Bibliography: p199-206. _ Includes index. Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-206) and index. Introduction: Loving the Grotesque -- 1. The Grotesque and the Great Depression -- 2. The Political Analogy; or, "Tragicomedy" in an In-Between Age -- 3. Misery Burlesqued: The Peculiar Case of Tobacco Road -- 4. Chaos and Cruelty in the Theatrical Space: Horse Eats Hat, Hellzapoppin, and the Pleasure of Farce -- Appendix. Cast and Staff Information for Principal Productions.
- 摘要: 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.
- 系統號: 005261351
- 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, which 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 1930s as an era of the grotesque, in which the irreconcilable were forced into tense and dynamic coexistence.
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