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- Method Acting and Its Discontents: On American Psycho-Drama
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: Northwestern University Press
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Winner of the 2016 George Jean Nathan Award
Method Acting and Its Discontents: On American Psycho-Drama provides a new understanding of a crucial chapter in American theater history. Enelow’s consideration of the broader cultural climate of the late 1950s and early 1960s, specifically the debates within psychology and psychoanalysis, the period’s racial and sexual politics, and the rise of mass media, gives us a nuanced, complex picture of Lee Strasberg and the Actors Studio and contemporaneous works of drama. Combining cultural analysis, dramaturgical criticism, and performance theory, Enelow shows how Method acting’s contradictions reveal powerful tensions inside mid-century notions of individual and collective identity.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. vii-2
- Introduction
- pp. 3-22
- Part One: Psycho-Methods
- "She's Crazy"
- pp. 25-30
- 2. The Case of Suddenly Last Summer
- pp. 47-62
- Part Two: Political Methods
- State Servant
- pp. 65-70
- Part Three: Methods and Scripts
- Bibliography
- pp. 141-150
Additional Information
ISBN
9780810131415
Related ISBN(s)
9780810131408, 9780810131835
MARC Record
OCLC
912012285
Pages
168
Launched on MUSE
2015-06-28
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2015