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Although often dismissed as a minor offshoot of the better-known German movement, expressionism on the American stage represents a critical phase in the development of American dramatic modernism. Situating expressionism within the context of early twentieth-century American culture, Walker demonstrates how playwrights who wrote in this mode were responding both to new communications technologies and to the perceived threat they posed to the embodied act of meaning. At a time when mute bodies gesticulated on the silver screen, ghostly voices emanated from tin horns, and inked words stamped out the personality of the hand that composed them, expressionist playwrights began to represent these new cultural experiences by disarticulating the theatrical languages of bodies, voices and words. In doing so, they not only innovated a new dramatic form, but redefined playwriting from a theatrical craft to a literary art form, heralding the birth of American dramatic modernism.

American drama --- Expressionism in literature. --- Modernism (Literature) --- Theater --- History and criticism. --- THEATRE (GENRE LITTERAIRE) AMERICAIN --- THEATRE --- 20E SIECLE --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE --- ETATS-UNIS

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"How do ideas take shape? How do concepts emerge into form? This book argues that they take shape quite literally in the human body, often appearing on stage in new styles of performance. Focusing on the historical period of modernity, Performance & Modernity : Enacting Change on the Globalizing Stage demonstrates how the unforeseen impact of economic, industrial, political, social, and psychological change was registered in bodily metaphors that took shape on stage. In new styles of performance-acting, dance, music, pageantry, avant-garde provocations, film, video and networked media- this book finds fresh evidence for how modernity has been understood and lived, both by stage actors, who, in modelling new habits, gave emerging experiences an epistemological shape, and by their audiences, who, in borrowing the strategies performers enacted, learned to adapt to a modernizing world"--

Acting --- Human body (Philosophy) --- Performing arts --- Aesthetics. --- Performance art --- Philosophy.

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Sontag, Susan, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Zontag, Sʹi︠u︡zen, --- Rosenblatt, Susan, --- Sontag, Susan

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