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Sam Shepard and the American Theatre
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The Theatre of Sam Shepard: States of Crisis (Cambridge Studies in American Theatre and Drama)
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Everyone seems to understand a piece of Sam Shepard--macho movie actor, off-Broadway revolutionary, reclusive horse breeder, Dean of American Playwrights--but assembling these personas into a coherent individual would daunt the bravest of biographers. Leslie A. Wade, a University of Louisiana associate theater professor, strives to chart Shepard's obsessions and writing phases and to put them in context, both with Shepard's personal life and with the America he supposedly embodies. Wade's dry style sometimes poorly serves the passionate subject matter, but he provides new Shepard fans with perspective and plot summaries that are superior to all previous efforts. The full-blooded Shepard biography is still waiting to be written, but this vigorous attempt may well serve as its outline.
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No dramatist in the recent history of the American theatre has gained more celebrity than Sam Shepard. Exploring a career that includes fifty stage and screen plays, four books of nondramatic writings, and over a dozen appearances in feature films, this work traces Shepard's rise from an Off-Off Broadway renegade to a Hollywood leading man, and explores his evolution from counterculture to cultural icon. The study situates Shepard's career within the shifting production modes and economic contexts of the American entertainment industry, and views his popularity against the identity politics of postwar American culture. Through an analysis of his life, plays, and screen roles, this book investigates how Shepard's dramatic voice and film persona address issues of American consensus and community. The study argues that Shepard's popularity--in an era of cultural diversification and dissent--owes much to nationalism and nostalgia and begs important questions concerning American myths, media representations, and the construction of an American audience.
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This comprehensive analysis traces Sam Shepard's career from his experimental one-act plays of the 1960s through the 1994 play SIMPATICO. Concentrating on his play writing, this book charts Shepard's various developments and shifts of direction, and the changing contexts in which his work has appeared. The definitive source on the works of an innovative and original writer.
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the best guide to Shepard's theater in print.......2005-12-14
Bottoms' study is an insightful and surefooted introduction to one of America's most troubling and innovative playwrights. While the book presents itself as a fairly straightforward work of dramatic criticism, with some production history and biography mixed in, it is written in an enliveningly lucid style and is brimming with surprising insights. Its organization is pleasingly straightforward too: the introduction lays out the main 'crises' that run through Shepard's work, and then the book proceeds to use these crises as it goes chronologically through the evolution of Shepard's career, paying attention to its many aesthetic twists and turns. Highly recommended for anyone studying Shepard, or interested in putting on a thoughtful production of one of his plays!
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A Highly Insightful Commentary.......2000-04-12
Being a graduate theatre student, I've read almost all of Shepard's plays and a great deal of Shepard criticism, and consider this book to be among the most insightful. From the title, I expected a narrow examination of character and conflict. But, in fact, the book is much more than that. It also charts--in precise structural and thematic terms--Shepard's metamohposis from a purely instinctual (and "speed"-driven) young playwright to an iconoclastic storyteller in firm control of his craft. This is a book for both those who have only recently discovered Shepard's work and those (like myself) who thought that they had already cracked the code.
Insightfully charts the evolution of an artist.......2000-03-15
All of the great American playwrights, I find Shepard to be the most elusive. Unlike many of his predecessors, Shepard doesn't connnect all the dots; his characters don't stay put, his plots are slippery, and even his themes are sometimes difficult to pin down. Watching or reading a Shepard play is like living on a fault line--you never know when the ground will give way or where you'll finally end up. Which is why I so appreciated A BODY ACROSS THE MAP. It is cogent, well-written, and clarifies, without over-simplifying--some of the more mysterious aspects of Shepard's work. Also, by examining the father-son conflict in plays written over a twenty year span, it skillfully reveals how Shepard's view of the world, his ideas regarding masculinity, and his perceptions of women have substantially changed. I was particularly impressed by the author's analyses of THE TOOTH OF CRIME, TRUE WEST, and A LIE OF THE MIND.
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Few American playwrights have exerted as much influence on the contemporary stage as Sam Shepard. His plays are performed "on" and "off" Broadway as well as in all the major regional American theaters. They are also widely performed and studied in Europe, particularly in Britain, Germany and France, finding both a popular and a scholarly audience. This companion explores the various aspects of Shepard's career, providing fascinating first-hand accounts and substantial critical chapters on the plays, poetry, music, fiction, acting, directing and film work.
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Few American playwrights have exerted as much influence on the contemporary stage as Sam Shepard. His plays are performed on and off Broadway and in all the major regional American theatres. They are also widely performed and studied in Europe, particularly in Britain, Germany and France, finding both a popular and scholarly audience. In this collection of seventeen original essays, American and European authors from different professional and academic backgrounds explore the various aspects of Shepard's career - his plays, poetry, music, fiction, acting, directing and film work. The volume covers the major plays, including Curse of the Starving Class, Buried Child, and True West, as well as other lesser known but vitally important works. A thorough chronology of Shepard's life and career, together with biographical chapters, a note from the legendary Joseph Chaikin, and an interview with the playwright, give a fascinating first-hand account of an exuberant and experimental personality.
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Sam Shepard
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Fast, Cheap, and Out of Breath.......2001-01-31
This is a book which can be read rather quickly simply because there isn't much there. As a biography, it presents very little information that cannot be found in magazine articles and interviews. Nor is its analysis of Shepard's plays very helpful. One hopes that a literary biography will cast new light both on an individual's work via an investigation of his/her life and on an individual's life via an exploration of his/her work. This book, unfortunately, comes up short on both counts.
Notable effort, but not enough.......1999-12-02
If you are looking for an inside view of the mind and man of Sam Shepard, this book really is not for you. Granted the author had a daunting task, revealing the life of perhaps one of the most private men around. The thing is, I bought the book to find out about Sam Shepard. Instead, I get a glancing blow of his life and work. Certain facts and sentences are repeated four of five times, as if the editor had fallen asleep at the wheel on this one. Shewey tells us that Shepard's life influenced his work, he tells us that his past influences his present, that Shepard's life has a direct influence on what he puts on paper. That is the thing... he TELLS us, he doesn't SHOW us. If you are truly looking for an inside view of the great playwright, check out "Hawk Moon" or even "Cruising Paradise". Those books, written by Shepard, will show you the man, his life, and work. Shewey's book makes you read points over and over and leaves you looking for hidden pages at the end of the book. I literally stared at the last page and asked "Is this it?" I never like reviewing an author's work, because I feel as though I really don't have the right- yet as a reader, I left this book feeling extremely unsatisfied.
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Sam Shepard's Metaphorical Stages: (Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies)
Lynda Hart
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America's most highly acclaimed contemporary playwright continues to puzzle critics, even as his reputation grows and his imagination seeks new creative channels. Finding the dramatist "difficult to classify," critics and scholars continue to search for the central direction of Shepard's creative development. Lynda Hart's study, which focuses on ten representative plays, is the first book to examine Shepard's growth and development as a dramatist within and against the historical tradition. Offering a unified critical perspective, the author considers the plays from both a literary standpoint and as texts for performance. Resources include a bibliography that offers the most complete listing of relevant critical writings.
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Sam Shepard: Theme, Image and the Director (American University Studies Series Xxvi Theatre Arts)
Laura J. Graham
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True Lies: The Architecture of the Fantastic in the Plays of Sam Shepard (American University Studies Series Xxvi Theatre Arts)
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Examines the complex and controversial relationships between feminism and violence as revealed in popular TV shows featuring women warriors.
This book is unique in its critical inquiry into the new woman warrior's appropriation of violence and the Western war narrative. Informed by feminist theoretical debates regarding women's new roles, the authors delve into the meaning of that appropriation for alternative storytelling. To date, television's "ferocious few" have received little scholarly attention. By inviting a variety of perspectives, editors Frances Early and Kathleen Kennedy provide a cutting-edge forum to recognize women's increasing role in popular culture as they are cast as action heroes. As a timely and accessible work, this book will appeal to scholars, feminists, cultural critics, and the general reader.
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Featuring quotations from Vladimir Nabokov, Langston Hughes, Herman Melville, Dave Barry, Stephen Jay Gould, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and many more, this collection of fifty of the Times's famous, literary Sunday acrostics marks their first appearance in book form.
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Challenging Acrostics #9.......2007-08-15
These puzzles are extremely hard but they are clever and fun to do. I've only been able to do two so far without cheating ie: looking up the answers. They are tricky but I'm getting used to some of the tricks such as realizing that a single letter need not be an "a" or an "i" . And clues can have several different meanings and word forms -what looks like a noun can be a verb etc.For example a recent clue was "single" and I was trying to think of a word for unmarried or a one dollar bill. The answer was "one base hit."
NY Times Acrostics.......2007-01-10
As a long-time solver and former constructor of acrostic puzzles, I find it difficult to find acrostics that can challenge me, but these do! They are considerably more challenging than the ones Middleton does for the Simon and Schuster series. I highly recommend them to experienced solvers.
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They look like crosswords, but don't be fooled. Acrostics, those two-tiered word games, provide double the fun. First figure out the answers to semantic clues as in a crossword. But, the challenge of these forty puzzles doesn't stop there. Use your answers to transform the empty grid into a literary passage. Definitions, answers, and quotes draw on your knowledge of classic masters like Tolstoy, Hemingway, and Poe and assess your pop culture prowess with references to Julia Roberts, "Rawhide," and NHL Stanley Cup winners. Dust the cobwebs from your brain and find out how much you really know about music, history, geography, and even mythology. Break free from the standard word puzzle and tackle the twofold challenge of acrostics for an enlightening change of pace.
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Too Easy.......2004-12-11
The only good ones were the expert ones, and even they were too easy. If you want a challenge, not something mindless, then get the NY Times Acrostics, or the NY Times Sunday Variety Puzzles, which includes acrostics, diagramless, etc.
Challenging Acrostic Puzzles.......2004-04-11
Great for keeping the cobwebs out during spring break. Several of us passed it around and turned the puzzles into a 'group' effort. They were great. Not stuffy, not so academic that no one cared, but challenging and difficult--fun to work. And relevant. Great fun, good for competition and full of surprises. I'm not an acrostic nut, but really enjoyed this collection.
Challening without being mind-numbing.......2004-04-06
This is a fairly good set of acrostics. The clues require a fairly broad knowledge of pop trivia of the 20th and 21st century, as well as a number of SAT words. They *don't* require knowledge of things like "The fifth in the line of Plantagenet kings," or "Scholarly volume outlining the history of Sri Lanka," which some of the Middleton acrostics need. I could solve these puzzles without having to access reference books, but also could not get more than 60% of the answers to any one puzzle's clues on my first pass. In short, they can be completed, and take a reasonable amount of thought and knowledge.
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Using a computer doesn't have to hurt.
Prevent or reverse repetitive stress injuries
Cure carpal tunnel syndrome
End chronic wrist, shoulder, and neck pain
Ease eyestrain
Avoid surgery, drugs, and wrist braces
Using a computer should challenge your mind, not your body.
As computers become a larger part of our daily lives both at work and at home, complaints of painful wrists, sore shoulders, stiff necks, and blurry vision associated with computer use continue to soar.
But the good news is that this chronic pain can easily be prevented or cured without surgery or drugs--or expensive "ergonomic" equipment. There's no need to move your monitor, wear wrist braces, or sit in a specially designed chair.
Instead, Pete Egoscue, using the techniques and principles developed at his renowned clinic, shows you how to keep pointing and clicking for hours--pain free.
You'll learn how to:
Avoid or treat common but debilitating repetitive stress injuries, including carpal tunnel syndrome
Recognize and remedy problems in posture and movement before they cause pain
Do easy-to-perform exercises at your desk to eliminate chronic hand, wrist, shoulder, back, and neck pain
Quickly and easily correct damaging patterns of motion
And much more
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Pain Free.......2007-04-07
I was diagnosed with DeQuervain's Tenosynitis. This book helped me handle the pain in 48 hours! I started doing just a few of the exercises and in 2 days I was better and I had this for months! I am still doing the exercises daily and the pain has not returned.
This is an odd book.......2006-02-27
This is an odd book. He seems to talk out of both sides of his mouth: he tells you to use good ergonomic habits on one page, and on the next one to change the height of your chair, keyboard, etc., frequently so that you're not always "in the box" that makes everything be at the "right" angle. A good editor might have improved this book substantially.
What's best about this book is the inclusion of a couple of simple exercises that you can do almost anywhere, whenever you have a few minutes. I'd check this one out from the library rather than buying a copy for myself.
I might recommend his plain-vanilla "Pain-Free" book for most people instead.
Some ok advice; some downright silly commentary.......2005-12-16
First, nearly every exercise Egoscue includes here has been borrowed or adapted from Yoga -- either from Asanas or restorative poses. He pretty much says so, but he doesn't say the Yogic work is more thorough. He does have some really goofy comments such as there is not benefit from ergonomic computer devices. A good ergonomic keyboard places your wrist flexion at the proper angle, and your fingers are not cramped as with traditional keyboards. Another weird comment is his rationale for why typist in the old days didn't get carpal tunnel. He claims it is because people were stronger then. I don't think so, considering the huge leap in women sports in high school & college. The true reason is because the old typewriters had no place to rest the wrists, a habit nowadays that puts pressure right on the carpal tunnel area. He does make one good common sense observation that the human body was designed to move around and not be constricted, and the less the body is in contact with a chair or any other object for long periods of time, the less stress on the body. All in all, a very skimpy book that could have been a 10 page brochure with a poster sized pull out for the exercises.
It really works -- but only if you take the time!.......2005-09-20
Egoscue says that most chronic pain is caused by poor posture and poor body mechanics (e.g., moving wrong). The solution -- a set of stretches that teach you good posture and good body mechanics. These "E-cises" are gentle and easy to perform. They do take a bit of time -- more than an hour for people who use PCs all day -- but the results are amazing. The biggest problem with this book can only addressed by the reader: this advice does you no good unless you lay down and do the E-cises. Don't let the lengthy time daunt you though -- the time required shrinks after a few weeks, and the relief is well worth it. The 5-minute stretches are helpful, too. The reviewers who didn't like this book all sound like they never actually tried the E-cises.
I'd give this book 5-stars, but I must in honesty admit that Egoscue's book "Pain Free" is superior.
changes way of thinking.......2005-03-11
I stopped thinking about taking rest and got into activity after reading this book. The explanation of DROM and IROM is great. I do not do the e-cizes cause i am lazy. But still it has taught me how to approach pain caused by PC.
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