The Wonderful And Surprising History Of Sweeney Todd
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The Wonderful And Surprising History Of Sweeney Todd
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Author : Robert L Mack
language : en
Publisher: Continuum
Release Date : 2007
The Wonderful And Surprising History Of Sweeney Todd written by Robert L Mack and has been published by Continuum this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Literary Criticism categories.
Tells the fascinating story of how the Sweeny-Todd-myth developed from popular melodrama in the 1850s to film, ballet and musical incarnations in the 20th century. >
A Study Guide For Stephen Sondheim S Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street Film Entry
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Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
language : en
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
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A Study Guide For Stephen Sondheim S Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street Film Entry written by Gale, Cengage Learning and has been published by Gale, Cengage Learning this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Literary Criticism categories.
A Study Guide for Stephen Sondheim's "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" (film entry), excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama for Students for all of your research needs.
The Oxford Handbook Of The Global Stage Musical
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Author : Robert Gordon
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2023
The Oxford Handbook Of The Global Stage Musical written by Robert Gordon and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with Music categories.
In response to the rapid growth of musical theatre as a global phenomenon, The Oxford Handbook of the Global Stage Musical offers new scholarly approaches to issues arising from these new international markets. The thirty-three essays highlight major aspects of the genre, such as the dominance of Western colonialism in its early production and dissemination, racism and sexism--both in representation and in the industry itself--as well as current conflicts between global and local interests in postmodern cultures. Featuring contributors from seventeen countries, the essays offer informed insider perspectives that reflect the diversity of the subject and offer in-depth examinations of specific cultural and economic systems.
Sweeney Todd
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Author : Aaron Thomas
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-03-19
Sweeney Todd written by Aaron Thomas and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-19 with Performing Arts categories.
Sweeney Todd, the gruesome tale of a murderous barber and his pastry chef accomplice, is unquestionably strange subject matter for the musical theatre – but eight Tony awards and enormous successes on Broadway and the West End testify to its enduring popularity with audiences. Written by Hugh Wheeler, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, the musical premiered in 1979 and has seen numerous revivals, including Tim Burton's 2007 film version. Aaron C. Thomas addresses this darkly funny piece with fitting humour, taking on Sweeney Todd’s chequered history and genre, its treatment of violence and cannibalism, and its sexual politics.
Facing Our Darkness Manifestations Of Fear Horror And Terror
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Author : Laura Colmenero-Chilberg
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2019-07-22
Facing Our Darkness Manifestations Of Fear Horror And Terror written by Laura Colmenero-Chilberg and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-22 with Social Science categories.
This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2015. Fear ... Horror ... Terror ... The very words cause us to tingle with both anticipation and unease. Sitting in the movie theatre waiting for the murderer to jump out and kill the clueless teenager we are both repulsed and excited about the impending death. We yell, “He’s behind the tree!” knowing our reminders are pointless but unable to restrain ourselves when caught up in the panic of the moment. Humans have a fascination with fear, horror, and terror. Why? Whatever the reason, it both fascinates and often disgusts us. All of these emotional phenomena – fear, horror, terror – are infected by our fear of death. In the end all three phenomena test our courage. Yet this courage is not only heroic – each and every optimistic, trusting, self-confident, and faithful person permanently has it in spite of all the fears, horrors, and terrors with which the state of human existence threatens us since the dawn of self-awareness. This book is about some of these threats...
Penny Dreadfuls And The Gothic
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Author : Nicole C. Dittmer
language : en
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Release Date : 2023-02-15
Penny Dreadfuls And The Gothic written by Nicole C. Dittmer and has been published by University of Wales Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-15 with History categories.
Penny Dreadfuls and the Gothic breaks new ground in uncovering penny titles which have been hitherto largely neglected from literary discourse revealing the cultural, social and literary significance of these working-class texts. The present volume is a reappraisal of penny dreadfuls, demonstrating their cruciality in both our understanding of working-class Victorian Literature and the Gothic mode. This edited collection of essays provides new insights into the fields of Victorian literature, popular culture and Gothic fiction more broadly; it is divided into three sections, whose titles replicate the dual titles offered by penny publications during the nineteenth century. Sections one and two consist of three chapters, while section three consists of four essays, all of which intertwine to create an in-depth and intertextual exposition of Victorian society, literature, and gothic representations.
Theatre Symposium Vol 19
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Author : J K Curry
language : en
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Release Date : 2011-10-02
Theatre Symposium Vol 19 written by J K Curry and has been published by University of Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-02 with Performing Arts categories.
Despite a shared history and many common present practices, the relationship between theatre and film often remains uncertain. Does a close study of film enrich an understanding of drama on the stage? What ongoing connections do theatre and film maintain, and what elements do they borrow from each other? Does the relative popularity and accessibility of film lead to an increased scholarly defensiveness about qualities exclusive to theatrical performances? Do theatre and film demand two different kinds of attention from spectators, or do audiences tend to experience both in the same ways? The essays in “Theatre Symposium: Volume 19” present this dynamic coexistence of theatre and film, and examine the nature of their mutual influence on each other. Bruce McConachie, in his contribution to the collection, “Theatre and Film in Evolutionary Perspective,” argues that the cognitive functions used to interpret either media arise from the same evolutionary foundation, and that therefore the viewing experiences of theatre and film are closely linked to each other. In “Robert Edmond Jones: Theatre and Motion Pictures, Bridging Reality and Dreams,” Anthony Hostetter and Elisabeth Hostetter consider Jones’ influential vision of a “theater of the future,” in which traditional stage performances incorporate mediated video material into stage productions. Becky Becker’s “Nollywood: Film and Home Video, of the Death of Nigerian Theatre,” by focusing on the current conversation in Nigeria, discusses the anxiety generated by a film and video industry burgeoning into and displacing theatre culture These and the six other essays in “Theatre Symposium: Volume 19” shed light on the current state of affairs—the collaborations and the tensions—between two distinctly individual yet inextricably related artistic media.
The Palgrave Handbook Of Steam Age Gothic
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Author : Clive Bloom
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-02-03
The Palgrave Handbook Of Steam Age Gothic written by Clive Bloom and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-03 with Social Science categories.
By the early 1830s the old school of Gothic literature was exhausted. Late Romanticism, emphasising as it did the uncertainties of personality and imagination, gave it a new lease of life. Gothic—the literature of disturbance and uncertainty—now produced works that reflected domestic fears, sexual crimes, drug filled hallucinations, the terrible secrets of middle class marriage, imperial horror at alien invasion, occult demonism and the insanity of psychopaths. It was from the 1830s onwards that the old gothic castle gave way to the country house drawing room, the dungeon was displaced by the sewers of the city and the villains of early novels became the familiar figures of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Dracula, Dorian Grey and Jack the Ripper. After the death of Prince Albert (1861), the Gothic became darker, more morbid, obsessed with demonic lovers, blood sucking ghouls, blood stained murderers and deranged doctors. Whilst the gothic architecture of the Houses of Parliament and the new Puginesque churches upheld a Victorian ideal of sobriety, Christianity and imperial destiny, Gothic literature filed these new spaces with a dread that spread like a plague to America, France, Germany and even Russia. From 1830 to 1914, the period covered by this volume, we saw the emergence of the greats of Gothic literature and the supernatural from Edgar Allan Poe to Emily Bronte, from Sheridan Le Fanu to Bram Stoker and Robert Louis Stevenson. Contributors also examine the fin-de-siècle dreamers of decadence such as Arthur Machen, M P Shiel and Vernon Lee and their obsession with the occult, folklore, spiritualism, revenants, ghostly apparitions and cosmic annihilation. This volume explores the period through the prism of architectural history, urban studies, feminism, 'hauntology' and much more. 'Horror', as Poe teaches us, 'is the soul of the plot'.
The Doctor Dissected
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Author : Caroline McCracken-Flesher
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2012-01-27
The Doctor Dissected written by Caroline McCracken-Flesher and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-27 with Literary Criticism categories.
A series of bizarre disappearances filled the citizens of early nineteenth-century Scotland with terror. When the perpetrators were finally apprehended in 1828, their motive roiled the nation: William Burke and William Hare had murdered for profit. The cadavers supplied a ready payout, courtesy of Dr. Robert Knox, who was desperate for anatomical subjects. Nearly two hundred years later, these scandalous murders continue to fire imagination in Scotland and beyond. From the start, the sensational events provoked artists and writers. While Sir Walter Scott resisted public comment, his correspondence gives his trenchant private opinion and shows him working busily behind the scenes and against the doctor. Many more mined the news outright. Serial novelist David Pae exploited the disturbance to lobby for religious belief in an increasingly secular world. A subsequent generation resurrected the grisly drama as fodder for the Victorian gothic-the murders figure prominently in Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Body Snatcher" and, more obliquely, in Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The twentieth century saw the specters of Burke and Hare emerge in James Bridie's play The Anatomist, Hollywood horror films, television programs like Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and Frankensteinian retellings from Alasdair Gray. In this century, the story has been picked up by Smallville and Doctor Who. Recent allusions and reenactments range from the somber-in popular detective fiction by Ian Rankin-to the dark, camp comedy of Fringe Festival performances and the slapstick of John Landis's Burke and Hare. Featuring over thirty images and canvassing a wide range of media-from contemporary newspaper accounts and private correspondence to Japanese comic books and videogames-The Doctor Dissected analyzes the afterlife of this national trauma and considers its singular place in Scottish history.
Sweeney Todd The String Of Pearls
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Author : James Malcolm Rymer
language : en
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
Release Date : 2015-08-10
Sweeney Todd The String Of Pearls written by James Malcolm Rymer and has been published by Courier Dover Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-10 with Fiction categories.
In the early years of the Victorian age, a newly literate class of readers turned to "penny dreadfuls" for escapist fun. Blood-curdling tales, published in installments and costing only a penny, offered gripping episodes of romance, mystery, and horror. The notorious penny dreadful Sweeney Todd: The String of Pearls recounts a young woman's desperate search for her missing sailor sweetheart―a quest that ends in a Fleet Street barber shop, where the proprietor has an unsavory connection with a local baker and the secret ingredient to her delicious meat pies. Authorship of this tale, which was printed anonymously in 1846-47 in eighteen weekly installments, remains in doubt. The story's serial publication ensured an abundance of cliffhangers, and its dark humor made it an especially appealing source for the long-running Broadway musical Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. A delight for fans of the modern play, this gripping yarn remains a treat for readers of Victorian mysteries.