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Contemporary American theatre re-creates and invokes classical theatre so as to generate interaction between the two theatres. Using selected works of fourteen playwrights, this book organizes the interaction into three sections: works dramatizing change and reconciliation, works dramatizing the inability or the unwillingness to change and reconcile, and works emphasizing various selves (personal, theatrical, national). By drawing on the past, the fourteen playwrights refine their art in the contemporary American theatre and their vision of contemporary American life.

THEATRE (GENRE LITTERAIRE) AMERICAIN --- THEATRE (GENRE LITTERAIRE) CLASSIQUE --- MYTHOLOGIE CLASSIQUE DANS LA LITTERATURE --- CLASSICISME --- 20E SIECLE --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE --- ADAPTATIONS --- INFLUENCES CLASSIQUES --- ETATS-UNIS

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In this book, artist and art historian Michael Harris investigates the role of visual representation in the construction of black identities, both real and imagined, in the United States. He focuses particularly on how African American artists have responded to--and even used--stereotypical images in their own works. Harris shows how, during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, racial stereotypes became the dominant mode through which African Americans were represented. These characterizations of blacks formed a substantial part of the foundation of white identity and social power. They also, Harris argues, seeped into African Americans' self-images and undermined their self-esteem. Harris traces black artists' responses to racist imagery across two centuries, from early works by Henry O. Tanner and Archibald J. Motley Jr., in which African Americans are depicted with dignity, to contemporary works by Kara Walker and Michael Ray Charles, in which derogatory images are recycled to controversial effect. The work of these and other artists--such as John Biggers, Jeff Donaldson, Betye Saar, Juan Logan, and Camille Billops--reflects a wide range of perspectives. Examined together, they offer compelling insight into the profound psychological impact of visual stereotypes on the African American community.

African American art --- African Americans in art --- Afro-Americains dans l'art --- Afro-Amerikaanse kunst --- Afro-Amerikanen in de kunst --- Art afro-américain --- African American art. --- African Americans in art. --- African Americans --- Race identity. --- Race identity

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The reuse of images, plots and genres from film history has become prominent in contemporary culture. In this 2003 study, Vera Dika explores this phenomenon from a broad range of critical perspectives, examining works of art and film that resist the pull of the past. Dika provides an in-depth analysis of works in several media, including performance, photography, Punk film, and examples from mainstream American and European cinema. Proclaiming the renewed importance of the image and of genre, she investigates works as diverse as Cindy Sherman's Untitled Film Stills, Amos Poe's The Foreigner, Terence Malick's Badlands, and Francis Ford Coppola's One from the Heart. Her study positions avant-garde art work within the context of contemporary mainstream film practice, as well as in relationship to their historical moment.

film --- Verenigde Staten --- eenentwintigste eeuw --- twintigste eeuw --- 7.038/039 --- 7.01 --- 791.41 --- 791.43 --- nostalgie --- kunsttheorie --- kunst --- filmtheorie --- filmgeschiedenis --- Nostalgia in motion pictures --- Nostalgia in art --- Art, American --- Culture in motion pictures --- 798.3 --- Motion pictures --- Art, Modern --- Chicago Imagists (Group of artists) --- Figuration libre (Group of artists) --- Fort Worth Circle (Group of artists) --- Hairy Who (Group of artists) --- Monster Roster (Group of artists) --- Philadelphia Ten (Group of artists) --- Pictures Generation (Group of artists) --- film, esthetiek en kritiek --- Nostalgia in motion pictures. --- Nostalgia in art. --- Culture in motion pictures. --- ART AMERICAIN --- CINEMA AMERICAIN --- NOSTALGIE DANS L'ART --- 20E SIECLE --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE

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Crime dans la littérature --- Crime in literature --- Misdaad in de literatuur --- Detective and mystery stories, American --- Detective and mystery stories, English --- Popular literature --- History and criticism --- Detective and mystery stories [English ] --- Detective and mystery stories [American ] --- ROMAN POLICIER AMERICAIN --- ROMAN POLICIER ANGLAIS --- CRIMES DANS LA LITTERATURE --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE

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Théâtre (genre littéraire) américain --- Théâtre (genre littéraire) canadien de langue anglaise --- Canadian drama --- Indians of North America --- American drama --- Auteurs indiens d'Amérique. --- Indian authors. --- Théâtre (genre littéraire) américain --- Théâtre (genre littéraire) canadien de langue anglaise --- Auteurs indiens d'Amérique.