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Method Acting and Its Discontents: On American Psycho-Drama
Shonni Enelow
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Paperback. "Method Acting and Its Discontents: On American Psycho-Drama"provides a new understanding of a crucial chapter in American theater history." Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: ANC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 249.
In Method Acting and Its Discontents, Shonni Enelow provocatively argues that Method acting’s positing of a fundamentally porous self was a source of deep anxiety in a culture focused on containment, an anxiety that left lasting traces on American drama and performance. In case studies of plays by Tennessee Williams and James Baldwin and a film by William Greaves, Enelow places Method acting alongside developments in psychology and psychoanalysis, philosophy, and the politics of American identity during the civil rights movement, demonstrating that the subversive possibilities of the Method are inseparable from its failures. Enelow’s book, the first of its ... Read more
In Method Acting and Its Discontents, Shonni Enelow provocatively argues that Method acting’s positing of a fundamentally porous self was a source of deep anxiety in a culture focused on containment, an anxiety that left lasting traces on American drama and performance. In case studies of plays by Tennessee Williams and James Baldwin and a film by William Greaves, Enelow places Method acting alongside developments in psychology and psychoanalysis, philosophy, and the politics of American identity during the civil rights movement, demonstrating that the subversive possibilities of the Method are inseparable from its failures. Enelow’s book, the first of its ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
168
Place of Publication
Evanston, United States
ISBN
9780810131835
SKU
V9780810131835
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About Shonni Enelow
Shonni Enelow is an assistant professor of English at Fordham University, USA. She is the author, with Una Chaudhuri, of Research Theatre, Climate Change, and the Ecocide Project. She also writes for the theater.
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