10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BRECHTIAN»
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Brechtian in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
Brechtian and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Space and Time in Epic Theater: The
Brechtian Legacy
The development of epic theater before, during, and after Brecht's time, and analysis of epic productions, showing the form's continued relevance.
Sarah Bryant-Bertail, 2000
2
The Craft of Theatre: Seminars and Discussions in
Brechtian ...
The autobiographical account by one of German theater's great actors of his life in the theater.
3
Brechtian Theatre of Contradictions: Providing Moral ...
Theatre for Haus, during GDR times, was a means to survive, not only metaphorically. After liberation, post 1989, post GDR, theatre has lost nothing of its importance, quite the contrary. The book hopes to help understand both.
Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe, 2007
4
Unmaking Mimesis: Essays on Feminism and Theatre
body is subsumed in the dialectical narrative of social relations; the spectator's
body is given over to rational inquiry (unless there's pleasure to be had with the
Brechtian cigar). And Brecht exhibits the typical blindness of all Marxist theorists ...
5
Politics as Form in Lars von Trier: A Post-
Brechtian Reading
This is the first study that employs a materialist framework to discuss the political implications of form in the films of Lars von Trier.
Angelos Koutsourakis, 2013
6
Movies and Methods: An Anthology
A. BRECHTIAN. CINEMA? TOWARDS. A. POLITICS. OF. SELF-REFLEXIVE.
FILM. DANA POLAN A historian of recent film theory would be obliged to note the
tendentious tone that accompanied the introduction of the structuralist, semiotic, ...
7
Aestheticism & Modernism: Debating Twentieth-century ...
What. is. 'Brechtian'? Most people in English-speaking countries who know of
Brecht probably do so through the common use of the adjective 'Brechtian' to
describe a style of theatrical performance. There are at least two reasons for this:
first, ...
Richard Danson Brown, Suman Gupta, 2005
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Volker Schlondorff's Cinema: Adaptation, Politics, and the ...
that forward-looking stage and film directors have drawn heavily on Brechtian
aesthetics. At the examination for entrance to the DFFB, the German Film and
Television Academy in Berlin, an examiner posed the following question to
Rainer ...
Hans Bernhard Moeller, George L Lellis, 2012
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The Ghosts of the Avant-Garde(s): Exorcising Experimental ...
of Brook the person, but it also takes critical discussion beyond a fixation on
directorial intent and lays open a Brechtian undercurrent of Brook's adaptation. If
the poststructuralist reassessment of Brechtian theatre has taught us anything, it
is a ...
10
After Brecht: British Epic Theater
This chapter broaches a series of topics that, considered together, explain the
core conviction of this book — that politics and aesthetics are inseparably linked
and that Brechtian theory provides a tremendously powerful means of describing
...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BRECHTIAN»
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Brechtian is used in the context of the following news items.
David Bowie on film: the fleeting faces of an alien arrival
It's another Brechtian performance: not a full impersonation but a demonstration in an intimate, almost confiding manner of what one side of ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 15»
To Kill a Mockingbird (Barbican)
Timothy Sheader's Brechtian production sees the cast narrate the action (in English accents) direct from copies of the book, a nod perhaps to ... «WhatsOnStage.com, Jul 15»
Magician, the Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles review
The Stranger (1945) was the first commercial picture to use footage from the concentration camps; The Lady from Shanghai's (1947) Brechtian ... «Irish Times, Jul 15»
Stage Briefs by Keith Loria
“It's extremely unusual, incorporating aspects of Kabuki and an almost Brechtian kind of storytelling, with Japanese influences in the music, but ... «DC Theatre Scene, Jul 15»
Lovett + Todd at the King's Head Theatre
In a slight departure from our renowned 'Brechtian immersion', we will, nevertheless, bring a piece that truly engrosses and involves audiences, ... «LondonTheatre1, Jul 15»
Elizabeth MacLennan
... gritty realism, but here the audience could be seen watching the performance in a way that stayed true to 7:84's rough Brechtian aesthetic. «Herald Scotland, Jun 15»
'Nobody wants to be called a hippy': searching for a lost tribe at …
He performed songs and verse somewhere between Brechtian theatre and a Prodigy tribute act. They had lyrics like “I've got the IQ of a fence ... «The Guardian, Jun 15»
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence Isn't Very Original
What you can't really declare, with all this Beckettian, Brechtian, Bergmanian, Fellinian, and Pythonian humor, is that it seems original. «Santa Barbara Independent, Jun 15»
How Liev Schreiber Fixed Himself
My strength is language. My background is monologues and a certain kind of Brechtian spin on theater." In Many Ways, Naomi Watts Is His ... «Men's Journal, Jun 15»
In search of the authentic: taking tragedy home
Being an audience in broad daylight was a startlingly Brechtian experience, as we could see the spectators in front of us on the tiered seats, ... «Varsity Online, Jun 15»
