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Languages : en
Pages : 160
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The Diary of an Actress [Alma Ellerslie?], Or, Realities of Stage Life. Edited by H.C. Shuttleworth
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Author: ACTRESS.The Diary of an Actress
Author: H. C. ShuttleworthPublisher: Kessinger Publishing
ISBN: 9781104386986
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Hunger on the Stage
Author: Elisabeth Angel-PerezPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443814962
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
In his short story “The Hunger Artist,” Kafka imagined the theatrical career of a “professional faster” whose performance consists merely in displaying his own starving body before an avid audience. Kafka thus paradoxically suggested that hunger, mere emptiness working its way through declining bodies, may be a privileged theatrical object. Hunger often signals an anchorage in socio-historical reality, and invites extreme situations on stage, articulating large-scale cataclysms (famines, the devastation of war) with personal tragedies (hunger-strikes, anorexia, etc.) in which characters experience the tenuousness of their own lives. Whether in the comic or in the tragic mode, staged hunger metaphorizes various kinds of starvation – material greed, spiritual, emotional, sexual starvation, and even linguistic insufficiency. This volume explores the aesthetic and ethical issues raised by hunger on the stage in the English-speaking world. It investigates the paradox of the hypervisibility of the thinning body and shows how, throughout history, hunger has given shape to innovative, powerfully transgressive dramaturgies.
A Bibliographical Account of English Theatrical Literature from the Earliest Times to the Present Day
Author: Robert William LowePublisher: Gale Cengage
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.
Actresses as Working Women
Author: Tracy C. DavisPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134934475
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
Using historical evidence as well as personal accounts, Tracy C. Davis examines the reality of conditions for `ordinary' actresses, their working environments, employment patterns and the reasons why acting continued to be such a popular, though insecure, profession. Firmly grounded in Marxist and feminist theory she looks at representations of women on stage, and the meanings associated with and generated by them.
The Diary of an Actress, Or Realities of Stage Life
Author: Henry Cary ShuttleworthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actresses
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Auto/Biography and Identity
Author: Maggie B B. GalePublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719063329
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Arguing that women use autobiography and performance for expression and as a means of controlling their public and private selves, the contributors of these 11 essays examine the lives and work of a variety of artists ranging from actors as working women in the eighteenth century to monologists and performance artists today. Subjects include several performers, including Alma Ellerslie, Kitty Marion, Ina Rozant, Susan Glaspell, Adrienne Kennedy, Emma Robinson, Lena Ashwell, Tilly Wedekind, Clare Dowie, Janet Cardiff, Tracey Emin, and, in an interview, Bobby Baker, as well as essays on Latina theater and lesbians as performers constructing themselves and their community. Annotation : 2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Dickens's Villains
Author: Juliet JohnPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780199261376
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
This study argues that Dickens' villains embody the crucial fusion between the deviant and theatrical aspects of his writing.
A bibliographical account of English theatrical literature from the earliest times
Author: Robert William LoweActing for the Silent Screen
Author: Chris O'RourkePublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1786730596
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
A shop girl wins a newspaper competition and is transformed overnight into a transatlantic celebrity. An aristocrat swaps high society for the film studio when she 'consents' to perform in a series of films, thus legitimising acting for what some might have considered a 'low' art. Stories like these were the stuff of newspaper headlines in 1920s and reflected a 'craze' for the cinema. They also demonstrated radical changes in attitudes and values within society in the wake of World War I. Chris O'Rourke investigates the myths and material practices that grew up around film actors during the silent era. The book sheds light on issues such as the social and cultural reception of cinema, the participatory film culture expressed through fan magazines, instructional booklets and movie star competitions, and the working conditions encountered by actors behind-the-scenes of silent films. Drawing on extensive research and a wealth of archival materials, O'Rourke examines how dreams of stardom were fuelled and exploited in the interwar period, and reconstructs the personal narratives and experiences of the first generation to imagine making a living on screen.In doing so, he reveals a missing - and much sought after - piece of cinematic history to bring to life the developing industries, social attitudes and norms of a period of enormous change.