The American Stage and the Great Depression di Mark Fearnow edito da Cambridge University Press
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The American Stage and the Great Depression

A Cultural History Of The Grotesque

EAN:

9780521033626

ISBN:

0521033624

Pagine:
228
Formato:
Paperback
Lingua:
Inglese
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Descrizione The American Stage and the Great Depression

The American Stage and the Great Depression: A Cultural History of the Grotesque proposes a correlation between the divided "mind" of America during the depression and popular stage works of the era. Theatre works such as Jack Kirkland's comic-horrific adaptation of Tobacco Road, Olsen and Johnson's "scream-lined revue", Hellzapoppin, and successful plays by Robert E. Sherwood, Clare Boothe Luce, and S. N. Behrman are interpreted as theatrical reflections of depression culture's sense of being trapped between a discredited past and a nightmarish future. The author analyzes the America of the 1930s as an era of the "grotesque", in which the irreconcilable were forced into tense and dynamic coexistence, and by examining these works of theatre as products of particular historical circumstances, argues for a strong connection between cultural history and theatre history.

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