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New theatre and film, 1934 to 1937 : an anthology
- Title
- New theatre and film, 1934 to 1937 : an anthology / selections edited and with commentary by Herbert Kline ; foreword by Arthur Knight.
- Publication
- San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, ©1985.
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- Description
- xvi, 384 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- reviews (documents)
- Reviews
- Books.
- Reviews.
- Comptes rendus.
- Note
- Includes complete text for the play Bury the dead by Irwin Shaw.
- Contents
- Preface / Herbert Kline -- Foreword : a personal note / Arthur Knight
- Theatre : "1984" flashbacks to half a century ago -- The awakening of the American theatre / Clifford Odets -- Marching song : Flint, Michigan, and Brimmerton, U.S.A. -- Lawson crosses the class line / Lester Cohen -- Our hall / Mark Marvin -- The Scottsboro case and the New Theatre movement -- They shall not die! / Ben Blake -- Peace on Earth / Jack Shapiro -- How Archibald MacLeish joined our New Theatre movement -- Theatre against war and facism / Archibald MacLeish -- The hope for poetry in the theatre / Archibald MacLeish -- Another major New Theatre discovery / John W. Gassner -- Broadway tries again / John W. Gassner -- Perspectives -- past and present / John W. Gassner -- Harold Clurman's too fervent years -- Interpretation and characterization : a theatre workshop discussion / Harold Clurman -- Painter turned drama critic -- The quest of Eugene O'Neill : from the moon-drenched Caribbees to the foot of the cross / Charmion Von Wiegand -- A panorama of theatre activities -- Eva Le Gallienne -- ten years / Walter Pell -- Memorandum on Hedgerow / Mary Virginia Farmer -- Idiot's delight, anatomy of a success / David Shepperd -- Black pit / Herbert Kline -- The artef / Samuel Kreiter -- Anti-Nazi German theatre in Yorkville, N.Y. / Molly Day Thacher -- Footlights in filmland / Richard Sheridan Ames -- Pins and needles / Ben Irwin -- A "backstage" relationship / Hallie Flanagan -- A letter from Hallie Flanagan / Hallie Flanagan and Herbert Kline -- A statement from Elmer Rice -- A scene from the Censored play / Arthur Arent -- The Federal Theatre presents / Joseph Manning -- The Living Newspaper / Morris Watson -- Invitation to a Harlem party -- From Uncle Tom's cabin to Stevedore / Eugene Gordon -- On the White man's stage / Augustus Smith -- Trouble with the angels / Langston Hughes -- A New Theatre greeting for Adolf Hitler's flagship, the SS Bremen -- Shifting scenes -- Bury the dead / Irwin Shaw -- A theatre tour to Europe during the time of Hitler's growing power -- Reinhardt hails a popular front play / Elizabeth Meyer -- Impressions of Nazi dram / H.W.L. Dana -- Francois Villon in Prague / Charles Recht -- Soviet diary / Harold Clurman -- It makes you weep : an interview with Stella Adler on Soviet actors / Janet Thorpe -- Spain says "salud!" / Angna Enters
- Dance : New Theatre and the modern dance world -- Whither Martha Graham / Edna Ocko -- Text for dancers / Edna Ocko -- The Fokine Ballets / Blanche Evans -- Lincoln Kirstein : fifty years ago in New Theatre -- Revolutionary ballet forms / Lincoln Kirstein -- Men must dance / Gene Martel
- Film : Gorky on the films, 1896 -- The growing role of New Theatre in the world of film -- The movie : 1902-1917 / Robert Stebbins -- D.W. Griffith / Richard Watts, Jr. -- Billy Bitzer, ace cameraman / Philip Sterling -- Louella Parsons : Hearst's Hollywood stooge / Joel Faith -- Threats and news from inside the Hearst Press empire -- John Ford : fighting Irish / Emmanuel Eisenberg -- The films make history / Robert Stebbins -- Month of bounties / Robert Stebbins -- Reinhardt's dream / Charmion Von Wiegand -- The animated cartoon and Walt Disney / William Kozlenko -- The movie "original" / William Lorenz -- Notes on Hollywood / Joris Ivens -- A new approach to filmmaking / Ralph Steiner and Leo T. Hurwitz -- Documentary films in New Theatre and in my life -- Robert Flaherty's escape / Irving Lerner -- Too much reality / Friedrich Wolf -- The plow that broke the plains / Irving Lerner -- Redes / Robert Stebbins -- The foreign film, yesteryear and now -- The films of rene Clair / Lewis Jacobs -- Parade-ground art : the German film under Hitler / Carl Dreher -- How Hitler affected the lives of two New Theatre contributors -- Der Kampf / Max Ophuls -- A letter to F. Ermler on Peasants / G.W. Pabst -- A film director hero of the Siege of Leningrad -- Divhenko's Frontier / Irving Lerner -- The Youth of Maxim / V. Pudovkin -- The risks of life on the left -- Who speaks for us? / Robert Forsythe
- Afterword : The beginning of the end of New Theatre -- Table of contents for New Theatre (1934-36) and New Theatre and Film (1937) -- Chronology of selections in this anthology.
- ISBN
- 0151654573
- 9780151654574
- 0156655071
- 9780156655071
- LCCN
- 85000815
- OCLC
- ocm11677023
- 11677023
- SCSB-633499
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library