Opis
The Theater of Tony Kushner is a comprehensive portrait of the forty-year long career of dramatist Tony Kushner as playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and public intellectual and political activist.
Following an introduction examining the influences of Kushner’s development as an artist, this updated second edition features individual chapters on his major plays, including A Bright Room Called Day, Hydriotaphia, or The Death of Dr. Browne, Angels in America, Slavs! Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness, Homebody/Kabul, Caroline, or Change, and The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures, along with chapters on Kushner’s adaptations, one-act plays, and screenplays, including his two Academy Award-nominated screenplays, Munich and Lincoln.
A book for anyone interested in theater, film, literature, and the ways in which the past informs the present, this second edition of The Theater of Tony Kushner explores how his writings reflect key elements of American society, from politics and economics to race, gender, and spirituality, all with the hope of inspiring America to live up to its ideals
Kazalište Tonyja Kushnera opsežan je portret četrdesetogodišnje karijere dramaturga Tonyja Kushnera kao dramatičara, scenarista, esejista te javnog intelektualca i političkog aktivista.
Nakon uvoda koji ispituje utjecaje Kushnerova razvoja kao umjetnika, ovo ažurirano drugo izdanje sadrži pojedinačna poglavlja njegovih glavnih drama, uključujući Svijetlu sobu zvanu Dan, Hydriotaphia ili Smrt dr. Brownea, Anđeli u Americi, Slaveni! Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness, Homebody/Kabul, Caroline, or Change, i The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures, zajedno s poglavljima o Kushnerovim adaptacijama, jednočinkama i scenarijima, uključujući njegova dva scenarija nominirana za Oscara, München i Lincoln.
Knjiga za sve zainteresirane za kazalište, film, književnost i načine na koje prošlost utječe na sadašnjost, ovo drugo izdanje Kazališta Tonyja Kushnera istražuje kako njegova djela odražavaju ključne elemente američkog društva, od politike i gospodarstva do rase, spola i duhovnosti, a sve s nadom da će nadahnuti Ameriku da živi prema svojim idealima
