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Method Acting and Its Discontents : On American Psycho-Drama / Shonni Enelow.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Enelow, Shonni.
- Series:
- Nonseries Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American drama--20th century.
- American drama.
- Method acting--Political aspects.
- Method acting.
- Method acting--Psychological aspects.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Method Acting and Its Discontents: On American Psycho-Drama provides a new understanding of a crucial chapter in American theater history.Enelow's consideration of the broader cultural climate of the late 1950s and early 1960s, specifically the debates within psychology and psychoanalysis, the period's racial and sexual politics, and the rise of.
- Contents:
- Part One: Psycho-methods: "She's crazy"
- "Pathological hypnotism," hysterical methods
- The case of Suddenly last summer
- Part Two: Political methods: State servant
- The method and the means: James Baldwin at the Actors Studio
- Blues and the Blacks: acting at the close of humanism
- Part Three: Methods and scripts: "come on Alice, stop acting!" Scriptedness and the radical method.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8101-3141-2
- OCLC:
- 912012285
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