Seriously Mad - Aleksei Grinenko

Seriously Mad

Mental Distress and the Broadway Musical
Buch | Softcover
282 Seiten
2023
The University of Michigan Press (Verlag)
978-0-472-05644-6 (ISBN)
41,70 inkl. MwSt
Explores the history of American musical theater’s engagement with notions of madness, from Man of La Mancha to A Strange Loop
Theatermakers in the United States have long been drawn to madness as a source of dramatic spectacle. During the Broadway musical’s golden age in the mid-twentieth century, creative teams used the currently in-vogue psychoanalytic ideas about mental life to construct troubled characters at odds with themselves and their worlds. As the clinical and cultural profile of madness transformed over the twentieth century, musicals continued to delve into the experience of those living with mental pain, trauma, and unhappiness.

Seriously Mad offers a dynamic account of stage musicals’ engagement with historically significant theories about mental distress, illness, disability, and human variance in the United States. By exploring who is considered mad and what constitutes madness at different moments in U.S. history, Aleksei Grinenko shows how, in attempts to bring the musicals closer to highbrow sophistication, theater dramatized serious medical conditions and social problems. Among the many Broadway productions discussed are Next to Normal, A Strange Loop, Sweeney Todd, Man of La Mancha, Gypsy, Oklahoma!, and Lady in the Dark.

Aleksei Grinenko teaches theater history at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One. Madness in the Mind.



“Make a Date with a Great Psychoanalyst…”: Gazing Inward in the Dual Golden Age
“Make up your mind! Make up your mind!”: The Neurotic Interior and the Dynamic Unconscious in the 1940s and Beyond

Part Two. Madness in Society



“There Are Heroes in the World…”: Psychiatric Activism, Antipsychiatry, and Political Consciousness
“To Dream the Impossible Dream…”: Communities of Madness in the Musicals of the Long Sixties
“Is That Just Disgusting?”: Filth, Madness, and the City in Sweeney Todd and Other Musicals

Part Three. Madness in the Brain



“What a Lovely Cure!”: Staging the Interior in the New Age of Diagnostic Psychiatry
“Sing a song of forgetting…”: Listening to the Unconscious in Next to Normal

Conclusion: Contemporary Visions of Madness as Depth Theatre
Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Ann Arbor
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Musik Klassik / Oper / Musical
Kunst / Musik / Theater Theater / Ballett
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie
ISBN-10 0-472-05644-1 / 0472056441
ISBN-13 978-0-472-05644-6 / 9780472056446
Zustand Neuware
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