Pirandello in context /

Table of Contents: “…Wilmer -- The Royal Italian Academy / Guido Bonsaver -- Marta Abba / Pietro Frassica -- Massimo Bontempelli / Patricia Gaborik -- Gian Francesco Malipiero / Anna Harwell Celenza -- Georges Pitoëff / Anna Frabetti -- Max Reinhardt / Michael Rössner -- George Bernard Shaw / John A. …”
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Queering the Shakespeare film : gender trouble, gay spectatorship and male homoeroticism / by Patricia, Anthony Guy

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The presence of the queer in the Shakespeare film -- 1 Max Reinhardt and William Dieterle's A Midsummer Night's Dream and the queer problematics of gender, sodomy, marriage and masculinity -- 2 The queer director, gay spectatorship and three cinematic productions of Shakespeare's 'straightest' play -- Romeo and Juliet -- 3 The visual poetics of gender trouble in Trevor Nunn's Twelfth Night, Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet and Michael Hoffman's William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream -- 4 Screening the male homoerotics of Shakespearean romantic comedy on film in Michael Radford's The Merchant of Venice and Trevor Nunn's Twelfth Night -- 5 'I am your own forever': Iago, queer self-fashioning and the cinematic Othellos of Orson Welles and Oliver Parker -- Conclusion: Queering the Shakespeare film in the early twenty-first century.…”
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Strindberg's Ghost Sonata. by Törnqvist, Egil

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Pola Negri : Hollywood's first femme fatale / by Kotowski, Mariusz

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Edgar G. Ulmer : a filmmaker at the margins / by Isenberg, Noah William

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Double check / by Chiweshe, Stella

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Strindberg's The ghost sonata : from text to performance / by Törnqvist, Egil, 1932-2015

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Unseen cinema.

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Music in Goethe's Faust : Goethe's Faust in music /

Table of Contents: “…Tudor -- Faust : the instrumentalisation of an icon / Osman Durrani -- Faust's Schubert : Schubert's Faust / John Michael Cooper -- The musical novel as master-genre : Schumann's Szenen aus Goethes Faust / Julian Horton -- The psychology of Schumann's Faust : developing the human soul / Christopher Ruth -- A life with Goethe : Wagner's engagement with Faust in music and in words / Glenn Stanley -- Wagner's Ninth : reading Beethoven with Faust / Mark Austin -- Linking Christian and Faustian utopias : Mahler's setting of the Schluszene in his Eighth Symphony / Eftychia Papanikolaou -- Operatic translation and adaptation : Gounod's Faust, with a tribute to Ken Russell / Siobhán Donovan -- Adapters, falsifiers and profiteers : staging La damnation de Faust in Monte Carlo and Paris, 1893-1903 / Heather Hadlock -- Faust in the trenches : Busoni's Doktor Faust / Mark Fitzgerald -- As Goethe intended? : Max Reinhardt's Faust productions and the aesthetics of incidental music in the early twentieth century / Ursula Kramer -- Music and the rebirth of Faust in the GDR / David Robb -- Music, text and stage : Peter Stein's production of Goethe's Faust / John Guthrie -- 'Devilishly good' : Rudolf Volz's rock opera Faust and 'event culture' / Waltraud Maierhofer -- Select bibliography.…”
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Embodied texts : symbolist playwright-dancer collaborations / by Fleischer, Mary

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Music in Goethe's Faust : Goethe's Faust in music /

Table of Contents: “…13 'Adapters, Falsifiers and Profiteers': Staging La Damnation de Faust in Monte Carlo and Paris, 1893-190314 Faust in the Trenches: Busoni's Doktor Faust; Part IV New Directions: Recent Productions and Appropriations; 15 As Goethe Intended? Max Reinhardt's Faust Productions and the Aesthetics of Incidental Music in the Early Twentieth Century; 16 Music and the Rebirth of Faust in the GDR; 17 Music, Text and Stage: Peter Stein's Production of Goethe's Faust; 18 'Devilishly good': Rudolf Volz's Rock Opera Faust and 'Event Culture'; Select Bibligraphy; Index.…”
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Jacques Offenbach and the making of modern culture / by Senelick, Laurence

Table of Contents: “…7 Doing the ContinentalBorder Crossings -- Principalities and Powers -- â#x80;#x9C;Il conquera parce quâ#x80;#x99;il est espagnolâ#x80;#x9D; -- A Portuguese Welcome -- 8 South of the Equator, East of Suez -- Latin America -- Egyptian Nights -- Australia -- Japan -- 9 A Max Reinhardt Production -- An Antidote to Wagner -- The Magician -- Helen Triumphant -- Death in Venice -- La vie hitlerienne -- 10 Red Stars -- A Dying Fall -- Meet Comrade Offenbach -- A Five-Year Plan for Helen of Troy -- The Paris-Petrograd Express -- 11 French without Tears…”
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Hoffmanns Erzählungen : phantastische Oper /

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Rage for fame : the ascent of Clare Boothe Luce / by Morris, Sylvia Jukes

The Cambridge introduction to theatre directing / by Innes, Christopher, 1941-, Shevtsova, Maria

Table of Contents: “…Gordon Craig and the Artist of the TheatreMax Reinhardt: the 'Director's Book'; Combining directorial methods: Norman Bel Geddes; Peter Brook: collective creation versus directorial vision; Robert Wilson: the 'Visual Book'; Robert Lepage: cinematic self-directing; Total theatre and directing opera: Robert Wilson, Robert Lepage, Peter Sellars; Visual stylization as musical context: Robert Wilson; Cinematic and mechanistic deconstructions of opera: Robert Lepage; Conceptual politics: Peter Sellars; Sound and space: Christoph Marthaler; Further reading; Chapter 6 Directors of ensemble theatre…”
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Judenrollen : Darstellungsformen im europäischen Theater von der Restauration bis zur Zwischenkriegszeit /

Table of Contents: “…: Vincent d'Indy's La légende de Saint Christophe / Annie-Laure Drüner -- "Mir is wat unheimlich" : dissonantes "Versöhnungs-Theater" zwischen Ohnmacht und Selbstbehauptung : Jüdische Figuren in Else Lasker-Schülers Schauspiel Arthur Aronymus / Itta Shedletzky -- Die "Zahlenmagie des Heiligen Mehrwerts" : Nationalsozialismus, Inflation und der Ostjude Kaftan in Walter Mehrings Der Kaufmann von Berlin / Georg-Michael Schulz -- Drei unjüdisch-jüdische Künstler : Kurt Weills und Franz Werfels Bibelspiel The eternal road in der Inszenierung Max Reinhardts in New York / Karin Kowalke -- Der Gottesgedanke auf der Bühne : Schönbergs Oper Moses und Aron als Form der geistigen Synthese / Ferdinand Zehentreiter -- "Das Urlicht über der Finsternis" : Nelly Sachs Eli / Sigrid Bauschinger.…”
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