Final Test Yeeeee Flashcards
What happened during the rise of Bourgeoisie Drama?
- Plays began to feature domestic subjects
- Plays appealed to audience’s emotions
- Tragedies featured middle class heroes
What did the aim of comedy become?
To reward virtue and discourage vice
What was the focus of sentimental comedies?
The blooming of young love
What does Sturm und Drang mean?
Storm and stress. It valued nature, feeling and human individualism. It featured danger and terror
Sturm und Drang marked the beginning of which period?
The romantic period
What drives the Sturm und Drang hero to action
Revenge and greed
What is melodrama?
A dramatic work accompanied by music
What did constructivists believe?
Functionalism and productivity
What is biomechanics?
A movement oriented form of acting influenced by the movements of production line workers and the notions of “motion economy”
Who developed biomechanics?
Vsevolod Meyerhold
When did DaDa emerge and why?
Dada emerged in 1915, as a reaction against the carnage of the first world war
What is surrealism?
a 20th-century avant-garde movement in art and literature that sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind, for example by the irrational juxtaposition of images.
What is epic theatre?
A theatre of social observation
What are the goals of epic theatre?
Its emphasis is on educating the audience to their own reality, and to their role in systems (economic, social, political, and interpersonal) that are inequitable or oppressive.
What is the Alienation Effect?
Rather than draw the audience into self-identifying with the character, the aim of the alienation effect is to distance the audience from the action.
The alienation effect (verfremdungseffekt) upsets unexamined patterns of thought by making them appear strange
