{"product_id":"theatrical-consciousness-the-actors-mind-in-russian-modernism-paperback-softback-9780810148437","title":"Theatrical Consciousness; The Actor's Mind in Russian Modernism (Paperback \/ softback) 9780810148437","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eTheatrical Consciousness\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Actor's Mind in Russian Modernism\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAlisa Ballard Lin (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780810148437\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 15 April 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e200 pages, 16 b\u0026amp;w halftones\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"With a clear, eloquent tone and keen instinct for accessible storytelling, Alisa Ballard Lin connects incisive analyses of epoch-making Russian and Soviet theatrical innovations with essential, burning questions of psychology, philosophy, and concepts of the self.\" - Dassia N. Posner, Northwestern University \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Alisa Ballard Lin's lucid style deftly reveals the depth and breadth of her bountiful research. This is a masterful work of scholarship, essential reading for anyone interested in core questions about theater, acting, and cultural history.\" - David Chambers, Yale University\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eInvestigating late imperial Russian and early Soviet modernism's reinvention of the actor\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eTheatrical Consciousness: The Actor's Mind in Russian Modernism\u003c\/i\u003e examines efforts in Russian theater- from around the turn of the century through the mid- 1930s- 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: Surveying the Soviet Actor \u003cp\u003e Chapter One: The Actor as Self\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Chapter Two: The Actor as Material\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Chapter Three: The Actor's Personhood\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Chapter Four: The Actor's Identity\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Coda: Thinking the Actor under Stalinism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Northwestern University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52656074227992,"sku":"9780810148437","price":23.66,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/theatrical-consciousness-the-actors-mind-in-russian-modernism-paperback-softback-9780810148437","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}