[PDF] The Depiction Of Popular Culture With The Simpsons In Anne Washburns Mr Burns A Post Electric Play eBook

Author : Mirja Quix
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 27,7 MB
Release : 2015-07-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3668010048

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Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Cologne (Englisches Seminar), course: The London Stage, language: English, abstract: A main objective of The Simpsons series seems to be to take every day issues and world events as a part of its stories and to deal with them in a satirical way. While it also concerns itself with apparently banal issues like popular movies or bands, war, politics or nuclear power do not make an exception in the series’ content. Mick Broderick points out, that “while many episodes ostensibly do not touch on nuclear themes, the ever- present influence and immanence of the atomic age pervades The Simpsons like a thematic half- life whose motifs contaminate the multi- layered, intertextual narratives of each episode, often as satire.” At this background, Anne Washburn’s decision to take The Simpsons, of all things, as the one part of popular culture that survives inside the people’s memories throughout a nuclear apocalypse, seems even more peculiar and ironic. But that’s just what happens in Washburn’s “Mr. Burns – A post- electric play”. The electric grid is destroyed and people have to adapt to a world without telephones, television, electric stoves or radiators. They have to revert to older ways of engagement, like storytelling, but instead of higher literature they reminisce about parts of popular culture everyone remembers. The following paper therefore will analyse Anne Washburn’s play in regard to the way popular culture is represented in her post- apocalyptic world. Why is it important and why is The Simpsons Washburn’s main representative of contemporary popular culture in the play? And, moreover, in which ways does the representational form of popular culture change throughout it?

Author : Anne Washburn
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 11,81 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Simpsons (Television program)
ISBN :

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Performances of Anne Washburn's "Mr Burns A Post-Electric Play" performed by the State Theatre Company of South Australia and Belvoir, play performed at the [Space Theatre], lyricist: Anne Washburn, music composed by Michael Friedman, play based on the "Simpsons" the animated television series, play directed by Imara Savage, musical direction by Carol Young, set and costume design by Jonathan Oxlade, choreography by Lucas Jervies, fight choreographer: Scott Witt, cast includes: Paula Arundell, Mitchell Butel, Esther Hannaford, Jude Henshall, Brent Hill, Ezra Juanta and Jacqy Phillips.

Author : Anne Elizabeth Washburn
Publisher :
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 23,55 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Theater
ISBN : 9780573799921

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"Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to tech. Around you, a company of fourteen is engaged in a very peculiar -- and particularly imposible -- task of making a new play. You'll have a seat next to the sound designer as he mixes cues. You'll eavesdrop on backstage gossip as it happens over headset. You'll watch the director struggle to contain the uncontainable. Anne Washburn (Mr. Burns) took notes during her tech rehersals over the years. 10 out of 12 is a wry and absorbing look at how work forms us and deforms us."-- page 4 of cover.

Author : Julie Grossman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 34,22 MB
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1137399023

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This book posits adaptations as 'hideous progeny,' Mary Shelley's term for her novel, Frankenstein . Like Shelley's novel and her fictional Creature, adaptations that may first be seen as monstrous in fact compel us to shift our perspective on known literary or film works and the cultures that gave rise to them.

Author : Peta Tait
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 33,80 MB
Release : 2021-01-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1350030872

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Theory for Theatre Studies: Emotion explores how emotion is communicated in drama, theatre, and contemporary performance and therefore in society. From Aristotle and Shakespeare to Stanislavski, Brecht and Caryl Churchill, theatre reveals and, informs but also warns about the emotions. The term 'emotion' encompasses the emotions, emotional feelings, affect and mood, and the book explores how these concepts are embodied and experienced within theatrical practice and explained in theory. Since emotion is artistically staged, its composition and impact can be described and analysed in relation to interdisciplinary approaches. Readers are encouraged to consider how emotion is dramatically, aurally, and visually developed to create innovative performance. Case studies include: Medea, Twelfth Night, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Ibsen's A Doll's House, and performances by Mabou Mines, Robert Lepage, Rimini Protokoll, Anna Deavere Smith, Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio, Marina Abramovic, and The Wooster Group. By way of these detailed case studies, readers will appreciate new methodologies and approaches for their own exploration of 'emotion' as a performance component. Online resources to accompany this book are available at https://www.bloomsbury.com/theory-for-theatre-studies-emotion-9781350030848/.

Author : Alan Sepinwall
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 22,46 MB
Release : 2016-09-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1455588202

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Is The Wire better than Breaking Bad? Is Cheers better than Seinfeld? What's the best high school show ever made? Why did Moonlighting really fall apart? Was the Arrested Development Netflix season brilliant or terrible? For twenty years-since they shared a TV column at Tony Soprano's hometown newspaper-critics Alan Sepinwall and Matt Zoller Seitz have been debating these questions and many more, but it all ultimately boils down to this: What's the greatest TV show ever? That debate reaches an epic conclusion in TV (THE BOOK). Sepinwall and Seitz have identified and ranked the 100 greatest scripted shows in American TV history. Using a complex, obsessively all-encompassing scoring system, they've created a Pantheon of top TV shows, each accompanied by essays delving into what made these shows great. From vintage classics like The Twilight Zone and I Love Lucy to modern masterpieces like Mad Men and Friday Night Lights, from huge hits like All in the Family and ER to short-lived favorites like Firefly and Freaks and Geeks, TV (THE BOOK) will bring the triumphs of the small screen together in one amazing compendium. Sepinwall and Seitz's argument has ended. Now it's time for yours to begin!

Author : Anne Elizabeth Washburn
Publisher :
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 42,64 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Simpsons (Television program)
ISBN :

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Typescript draft, dated 9.3.13. Unmarked script of a play that opened September 15, 2013, at Playwrights Horizons, New York, N.Y. The last 28 pages of the script are peopled by characters from The Simpsons televsion program. Bart Simpson is the son of Homer Simpson, whose mendacious boss is Mr. Burns.

Author : Mark Katz
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 23,1 MB
Release : 2010-10-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0520261054

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Fully revised and updated, this text adds coverage of mashups and auto-tune, explores recent developments in file sharing, and includes an expanded conclusion and bibliography.

Author : Jennifer Haley
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 46,21 MB
Release : 2014-11-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0810130645

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The Nether, a daring examination of moral responsibility in virtual worlds, opens with a familiar interrogation scene given a technological twist. As Detective Morris, an online investigator, questions Mr. Sims about his activities in a role-playing realm so realistic it could be life, she finds herself on slippery ethical ground. Sims argues for the freedom to explore even the most deviant corners of our imagination. Morris holds that we cannot flesh out our malign fantasies without consequence. Their clash of wills leads to a consequence neither could have imagined. Suspenseful, ingeniously constructed, and fiercely intelligent, Haley’s play forces us to confront deeply disturbing questions about the boundaries of reality.