Theatrical Consciousness

The Actor's Mind in Russian Modernism

Alisa Ballard Lin (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

200 Seiten

2025
Northwestern University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8101-4844-4 (ISBN)

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Investigating late imperial Russian and early Soviet modernism’ s reinvention of the actor In this wide-ranging study, Alisa Ballard Lin argues that Russian theatrical theory and practice contributed to a broad pre- and postrevolutionary discourse about the mind, profoundly reshaping concepts of consciousness, perception, identity, and the constitution of the subject. Theatrical Consciousness: The Actor's Mind in Russian Modernism examines efforts in Russian theater— from around the turn of the century through the mid- 1930- to stimulate, train, imagine, and ultimately understand the actor's, as well as the spectator's, mind. Discussing key figures of the period, including Nikolai Evreinov, Konstantin Stanislavsky, Vsevolod Meyerhold, and Alexander Tairov, Lin identifies an underappreciated dimension of humanism within Russian modernism: a humanism that resisted the pressures of an increasingly technologized, industrialized, and politicized modernity that challenged the place of the human within it.

Alisa Ballard Lin is an assistant professor in the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures at the Ohio State University. She is the translator and editor of Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky's That Third Guy: A Comedy from the Stalinist's with Essays on Theater.

Introduction: Surveying the Soviet Actor Chapter One: The Actor as Self

Chapter Two: The Actor as Material

Chapter Three: The Actor's Personhood

Chapter Four: The Actor's Identity

Coda: Thinking the Actor under Stalinism

Erscheinungsdatum	05.06.2025
Zusatzinfo	16 b-w halftones
Verlagsort	Evanston
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Physiotherapie / Ergotherapie ► Ergotherapie
ISBN-10	0-8101-4844-7 / 0810148447
ISBN-13	978-0-8101-4844-4 / 9780810148444
Zustand	Neuware