[PDF] The Drama Of German Expressionism eBook

Author : Claude Hill
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,27 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :

GET BOOK

Contains citations to books, dissertations, and articles in English and German concerning German expressionist drama of the early twentieth century, including separate sections devoted to German dramatists Ernst Barlach, Bertolt Brecht, Arnolt Bronnen, Reinhard Goering, Walter Hasenclever, Hans Henny Jahnn, Hanns Johst, Georg Kaiser, Oskar Kokoschka, Paul Kornfeld, Ludwig Rubiner, Reinhard Johannes Sorge, Carl Sternheim, Ernst Toller, Fritz von Unruh, and Franz Werfel.

Author : Neil H. Donahue
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 17,43 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1571131752

GET BOOK

New essays examining the complex period of rich artistic ferment that was German literary Expressionism.

Author : David F. Kuhns
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 28,97 MB
Release : 1997-08-28
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521583403

GET BOOK

German Expressionist Theatre: The Actor and the Stage considers the powerfully stylized, anti-realistic styles of acting on the German Expressionist stage from 1916 to 1921. It relates this striking departure from the dominant European acting tradition of realism to the specific cultural crises that enveloped the German nation during the course of its involvement in World War I. This book describes three distinct Expressionist acting styles, all of which in their own ways attempted to show how symbolic stage performance could be a powerful rhetorical resource for a culture struggling to come to terms with the crises of historical change. The examination of Expressionist script and actor memoirs allows for an unprecedented focus on description and analysis of acting itself.

Author : Stephanie Barron
Publisher :
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 38,40 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Art and society
ISBN : 9780500237502

GET BOOK

In the early years of the 20th century, a group of young artists including Ernst Kirchner, Vassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc, liberated themselves from traditional representation by using distortion and vibrant, unrealistic colour in their painting. Eroticism became a tool for exposing the lies and decadence of society, whilst motifs borrowed from African, Oceanic and Buddhist art further questioned bourgeois culture. Later, the cruelty of World War I was reflected violently in the work of Max Beckmann, Otto Dix and George Grosz.

Author : Brill Olaf Brill
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 17,65 MB
Release : 2016-02-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1474411193

GET BOOK

One of the most visually striking traditions in cinema, for too long Expressionism has been a neglected critical category of research in film history and aesthetics. The fifteen essays in this anthology remedies this by revisiting key German films like The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) and Nosferatu (1922), and also provide original critical research into more obscure titles like Nerven (1919) and The Phantom Carriage (1921), films that were produced in the silent and early sound era in countries ranging from France, Sweden and Hungary, to the United States and Mexico.An innovative and wide-ranging collection, Expressionism in the Cinema re-canonizes the classical Expressionist aesthetic, extending the critical and historical discussion beyond pre-existing scholarship into comparative and interdisciplinary areas of film research that reach across national boundaries.

Author : Lisa Marie Anderson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 26,73 MB
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9401200513

GET BOOK

This book reads messianic expectation as the defining characteristic of German culture in the first decades of the twentieth century. It has long been accepted that the Expressionist movement in Germany was infused with a thoroughly messianic strain. Here, with unprecedented detail and focus, that strain is traced through the work of four important Expressionist playwrights: Ernst Barlach, Georg Kaiser, Ernst Toller and Franz Werfel. Moreover, these dramatists are brought into new and sustained dialogues with the theorists and philosophers of messianism who were their contemporaries: Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, Martin Buber, Hermann Cohen, Gershom Scholem. In arguing, for example, that concepts like Bloch’s utopian self-encounter (Selbstbegegnung) and Benjamin’s messianic now-time (Jetztzeit) reappear as the framework for Expressionism’s staging of collective redemption in a new age, Anderson forges a previously underappreciated link in the study of Central European thought in the early twentieth century.