The director's prism [electronic resource] :E.T.A. Hoffmann and the Russian theatrical avant-garde / Dassia N. Posner.
By: Posner, Dassia N [author.].
Contributor(s): Project Muse.
Material type: BookPublisher: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2016. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780810133570; 0810133571.Subject(s): Eisenstein, Sergei, 1898-1948 -- Criticism and interpretation | Tairov, Aleksandr I͡Akovlevich, 1885-1950 -- Criticism and interpretation | Meĭerkholʹd, V. Ė. (Vsevolod Ėmilʹevich), 1874-1940 -- Criticism and interpretation | Hoffmann, E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus), 1776-1822 -- Influence | Russian drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism | Theater -- Production and direction -- Russia -- History -- 20th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 792.09470904 Online resources: Full text available:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Hoffmann's prism -- Prologue/polemic: "Unnecessary truth" -- Under the sign of Hoffmann -- Refraction -- Meyerhold-Dapertutto: Framing the grotesque -- Prologue/polemic: "The cricket on the hearth, or, At the keyhole" -- Enter Doctor Dapertutto -- Dapertutto's Three Oranges: the scenario, the studio, and the journal -- Interlude: inspector general (1926)-- Epilogue: A waterless flood -- Tairov-Celionati: mime-drama and kaleidoscopic commedia -- Prologue/ polemic: "The dusk of the dawns" -- Mime-drama and the new theater -- Interlude: Princess Brambilla: a Kamerny Capriccio after Hoffmann (1920)-- Epilogue: An independent path -- Peregrinus Tyss meets Pipifax: Eisenstein, the grotesque, and the attraction -- Prologue/polemic: Tarelkin's Death -- The theatrical adventures of Mr. Peregrinus Tyss -- Tyss's Moscow experiments -- Interlude: Pipifax's pantomime: Columbine's garter (1922)-- Epilogue: Through theater to film -- The afterlife of a death jubilee -- Hoffmann's Jubilee (1922) -- The afterlife of refracted light -- Appendix A. Three essays from Love for three oranges: The journal of Doctor Dapertutto -- Hoffmaniana -- Open letter from the authors of the divertissement Love for three oranges to A. A. Gvozdev -- Comedy of pure joy: Ludwig Tieck's Puss in boots -- Appendix B. Columbine's veil -- Appendix C. Pierrette's veil -- Appendix D. Columbine's garter.
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