Modern American Drama on Screen

Modern American Drama on Screen
Title Modern American Drama on Screen PDF eBook
Author William Robert Bray
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 315
Release 2013-08-08
Genre Drama
ISBN 1107000653

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Focusing on key texts, leading scholars explore how Hollywood has given an enduring life to the classics of Broadway theater.

Modern American Drama, 1945-2000

Modern American Drama, 1945-2000
Title Modern American Drama, 1945-2000 PDF eBook
Author C. W. E. Bigsby
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 476
Release 2000-12-21
Genre Drama
ISBN 9780521794107

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New edition of Modern American Drama completes the survey and comes up to 2000.

A Reader's Guide to Modern American Drama

A Reader's Guide to Modern American Drama
Title A Reader's Guide to Modern American Drama PDF eBook
Author Sanford Sternlicht
Publisher Syracuse University Press
Pages 276
Release 2002-04-01
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780815629399

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Sanford Sternlicht presents a comprehensive survey of modern American drama beginning with its antecedents in Victorian melodrama through the present. He discusses the work and achievement of more than seventy playwrights, from Eugene O’Neill to Suzan-Lori Parks—from the golden era of Broadway to the rise of Off-Broadway and regional theater. Stern-licht shows how world theater influenced the American stage, and how the views of American dramatists reflected the great American social movements of their times. In addition, he describes the contributions of early experimental theater, the Federal Theater of the 1930s, African American, feminist, and gay and lesbian drama—and the joyous trends and triumphs of American musical theater.

Modern American Drama: Playwriting 2000-2009

Modern American Drama: Playwriting 2000-2009
Title Modern American Drama: Playwriting 2000-2009 PDF eBook
Author Julia Listengarten
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages 248
Release 2019-11-14
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1350024759

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The Decades of Modern American Drama series provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1930s to 2009 in eight volumes. Each volume equips readers with a detailed understanding of the context from which work emerged: an introduction considers life in the decade with a focus on domestic life and conditions, social changes, culture, media, technology, industry and political events; while a chapter on the theatre of the decade offers a wide-ranging and thorough survey of theatres, companies, dramatists, new movements and developments in response to the economic and political conditions of the day. The work of the four most prominent playwrights from the decade receives in-depth analysis and re-evaluation by a team of experts, together with commentary on their subsequent work and legacy. A final section brings together original documents such as interviews with the playwrights and with directors, drafts of play scenes, and other previously unpublished material. The major playwrights and their plays to receive in-depth coverage in this volume include: * Theresa Rebeck: Omnium Gatherum (2003), Mauritius (2007), and The Understudy (2008); * Sarah Ruhl: Eurydice (2003), Clean House (2004), and In the Next Room (or the Vibrator Play) (2009); * Lynn Nottage: Intimate Apparel (2003), Fabulation or Re-Education of Undine (2004), and Ruined (2008); * Charles Mee: Big Love (2000), Wintertime (2005), and Hotel Cassiopeia (2006).

Adaptations

Adaptations
Title Adaptations PDF eBook
Author Deborah Cartmell
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Pages 481
Release 2022
Genre Film adaptations
ISBN 1501315390

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"Adaptations: Critical and Primary Sources is a three-volume reference resource that brings together over 80 landmark texts in adaptation studies. Volume One covers the history of adaptation studies, by plotting the 'prehistory' of the field, beginning with Vachel Lindsay's classic Art of the Moving Picture (1915), through Virginia Woolf's classic essay on 'The Cinema' through to some of the most important critical and theoretical interventions up until the 1990s when the area really emerges as a critical force in the academy. Volume Two collects essays from the last 25 years, showing how the scholarly legacy laid out in Volume One still has a profound impact on adaptation studies today, while charting the process of critical and theoretical maturation. This volume shows how adaptations studies has outgrown its contested place 'in the gap' of film and literary studies and how its interventions transcend disciplinary perspectives across the arts and humanities. Volume Three covers key case studies, such as Christine Geraghty's take on adapting Westerns, Ian Inglis' understanding of the transformation of music into movies, and Eckart Voigts' concept on Jane Austen and participatory culture. With topics ranging from the limitations of the novel to adapting stage to screen, contributions from a wide range of international scholars, film critics and novelists combine to make Adaptations: Critical and Primary Sources an original overview of critical debates today. Cartmell and Whelehan introduce each excerpt and offer a critical overview of the collected work, the rationale for its inclusion and suggestions for further reading."--

Modern American Drama on Screen

Modern American Drama on Screen
Title Modern American Drama on Screen PDF eBook
Author William Robert Bray
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 315
Release 2013-08-08
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1107433843

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From its beginnings, the American film industry has profited from bringing popular and acclaimed dramatic works to the screen. This is the first book to offer a comprehensive account, focusing on key texts, of how Hollywood has given a second and enduring life to such classics of the American theater as Long Day's Journey into Night, A Streetcar Named Desire and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Each chapter is written by a leading scholar and focuses on Broadway's most admired and popular productions. The book is ideally suited for classroom use and offers an otherwise unavailable introduction to a subject which is of great interest to students and scholars alike.

Visions of Tragedy in Modern American Drama

Visions of Tragedy in Modern American Drama
Title Visions of Tragedy in Modern American Drama PDF eBook
Author David Palmer
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages 273
Release 2018-02-08
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1474276946

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This volume responds to a renewed focus on tragedy in theatre and literary studies to explore conceptions of tragedy in the dramatic work of seventeen canonical American playwrights. For students of American literature and theatre studies, the assembled essays offer a clear framework for exploring the work of many of the most studied and performed playwrights of the modern era. Following a contextual introduction that offers a survey of conceptions of tragedy, scholars examine the dramatic work of major playwrights in chronological succession, beginning with Eugene O'Neill and ending with Suzan-Lori Parks. A final chapter provides a study of American drama since 1990 and its ongoing engagement with concepts of tragedy. The chapters explore whether there is a distinctively American vision of tragedy developed in the major works of canonical American dramatists and how this may be seen to evolve over the course of the twentieth century through to the present day. Among the playwrights whose work is examined are: Susan Glaspell, Langston Hughes, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee, Lorraine Hansberry, Amiri Baraka, August Wilson, Marsha Norman and Tony Kushner. With each chapter being short enough to be assigned for weekly classes in survey courses, the volume will help to facilitate critical engagement with the dramatic work and offer readers the tools to further their independent study of this enduring theme of dramatic literature.