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Although often dismissed as a minor offshoot of the better-known German movement, expressionism on the American stage represents a critical phase in the development of American dramatic modernism. Situating expressionism within the context of early twentieth-century American culture, Walker demonstrates how playwrights who wrote in this mode were responding both to new communications technologies and to the perceived threat they posed to the embodied act of meaning. At a time when mute bodies gesticulated on the silver screen, ghostly voices emanated from tin horns, and inked words stamped out the personality of the hand that composed them, expressionist playwrights began to represent these new cultural experiences by disarticulating the theatrical languages of bodies, voices and words. In doing so, they not only innovated a new dramatic form, but redefined playwriting from a theatrical craft to a literary art form, heralding the birth of American dramatic modernism.

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Title Expressionism and Modernism in the American Theatre: Bodies, Voices, Words
Author Julia A. Walker
Binding Hardcover
Edition First Edition; F
Pages 314
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK
Date 2005-06-30
Illustrated Yes
ISBN 9780521847476 / 0521847478
Weight 1.35 lbs (0.61 kg)
Dimensions 9.1 x 6 x 1.2 in (23.11 x 15.24 x 3.05 cm)
Library of Congress subjects American drama - 20th century - History and, Theater - United States
Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005047508
Dewey Decimal Code 812.520

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E-021: Cambridge University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2005. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Cambridge University Press. 2005. 314 pages. Illustrated with black and white plates. Cambridge Studies in American Theatre and Drama (Book 21). The DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ. No ownership marks present. The text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards have light shelf wear present. Although often dismissed as a minor offshoot of the better-known German movement, expressionism on the American stage represents a critical phase in the development of American dramatic modernism. Situating expressionism within the context of early twentieth-century American culture, Walker demonstrates how playwrights who wrote in this mode were responding both to new communications technologies and to the perceived threat they posed to the embodied act of meaning. At a time when mute bodies gesticulated on the silver screen, ghostly voices… Read More