A contemporary biography of a notorious actress, dancer, and playwright who scandalized sex-obsessed Berlin during the 1920s chronicles the life of Anita Berber, who often haunted hotel lobbies, nightclubs and casinos, radiantly naked except for an elegant sable wrap, a pet monkey hanging from her neck, and a silver brooch packed with cocaine.
"An important addition to the literature on Italian Commedia dell'Arte."-"Choice" This best-selling PAJ volume presents over 250 comedy routines used by commedia performers in Europe from 1550 to 1750. Includes an introduction, two complete commedia scenarios, and a glossary of commedia characters.
""Voluptuous Panic" is simultaneously appalling and thrilling, repellent and seductive, grotesque and gorgeous-not a typical coffee table book. It would go better with absinthe drunk from a human skull."-Gary Meyer, "Clean Sheets" When "Voluptuous Panic: The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin" first appeared in the fall of 2000, it inspired wide ...
This volume contains: The Stanislavsky System - First Studio exercises 1912-1916; Vakhtangov as Rebel and Theoretician - Exercises 1919-1921; Michael Chekhov - Exercises 1919-1952; Stanislavsky's Fourth Period - Theory of Physical Actions 1934-1938.
In the first collection of its kind, Mel Gordon brings together important texts by leading Dadaists Hugo Ball, Kurt Schwitters, Richard Huelsenbeck, Roger Vitrac, Tristan Tzara, Emmy Hennings, Francis Picabia, and others.
Contents: Oskar Kokoschka, Sphinx and Strawman ? August Stramm, Sancta Susanna ? Georg Kaiser, From Morn to Midnight ? Gottfried Benn, Ithaka ? Walter Hasenclever, The Son ? Ernst Toller, The Transfiguration ? Lothar Schreyer, Crucifixion
Hitler's relationship with Hanussen (1889-1933), a Jewish clairvoyant, was initiated when Hanussen predicted that Hitler would rise to power in Germany. This biography explores the life of this strange ally of Hitler's--a life that ended at he hands of SA officers.
Using tourist guidebooks that appeared before the Nazi period, historical memoirs, and more than 400 specialized journals and books, Gordon explores Berlin's erotic underworld between 1921 and 1933 and its relationship to the rise of Nazism. 200+ photos & illustrations.
From its beginnings in turn-of-the-century Paris and throughout its sixty-year reign of terror, the Theatre of the Grand Guignol gleefully celebrated horror and fear. Innocent victims, mangled beauty, insanity, mutilation, depravity, and guilt were its primary themes. By dissecting primal taboos in an unprecedentedly graphic manner, it became the ...
This lively collage of excerpts from German periodicals shows a culture at its decadent peak before the Nazi suppression. Included are color pictorials, erotic cartoons, advice for lesbians, aphrodisiac recipes, naughty parlor games, and sexy bedtime stories. Color and b&w photos/illustrations throughout.
Explores the legacy that Constantin Stanislavsky's system of actor-training has left on acting in the US. This title outlines the journey of Stanislavsky's theories through twentieth century American history, from the early US tours of the Moscow Art Theatre to the impact of The System on modern American acting.
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