American Drama/Critics: Writings and Readings

Author:   Bert Cardullo
Publisher:   Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Edition:   Unabridged edition
ISBN:  

9781443800358


Pages:   275
Publication Date:   01 June 2019
Format:   Paperback
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"""American Drama/Critics: Writings and Readings"" is a collection of essays on acknowledged classics of American drama such as ""Death of a Salesman,"" ""The Glass Menagerie,"" and ""Our Town,"" and on newer but no less esteemed works like David Mamet's ""Glengarry Glen Ross"" and Sam Shepard's ""Buried Child."" Included are interviews with the great American drama critics Eric Bentley and Stanley Kauffmann; a consideration of the practice of American dramaturgy; an analysis of the adaptation to film of several American dramas; and an examination of experimental playwriting and production in the United States, as seen in the work of Gertrude Stein as well as that of other, lesser-known avant-garde dramatists. This book's thesis is not only the generally accepted one that American drama is essentially a representational one and that its avant-garde experiments are just that--experimental detours that ultimate lead back to the main highway of realism and naturalism. The thesis of ""Americam Drama/Critics"" is also that the decline of American drama in the late twentieth to early twenty-first century is paralleled by, and even attributable to, the decline or disappearance of American dramatic criticism."

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Author:   Bert Cardullo
Publisher:   Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Imprint:   Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Edition:   Unabridged edition
Weight:   0.286kg
ISBN:  

9781443800358


ISBN 10:   144380035
Pages:   275
Publication Date:   01 June 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Bert Cardullo is Professor of Media and Communication at the Izmir University of Economics in Izmir, Turkey, where he teaches courses in film history, theory, and criticism, as well as in the interrelationship between drama and film. He is the author, editor, or translator of more than thirty books, the most recent of which are Soundings on Cinema: Speaking to Film and Film Artists and Serious Dialogue: Interviews with American Theater Critics.

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