Matthew Wilson Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 3681063 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew Wilson Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew Wilson |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH M W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Smith Family |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0625-5402 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
What Can Scholars Do
The notion of spending a day
The Playbook
The Playbook delves into the turbulent life of the Federal Theater Project (FTP), a New Deal experiment launched in 1935 to bring theater to the masses, only to be crushed by the government four years later. Shapiro recounts the FTP's audacious productions, from Orson Welles's “Voodoo” Macbeth, set after the Haitian Revolution, to One Third of a Nation, an exposé of urban housing that blended newsreel and agitprop styles. Alongside such experimen…
Tragedy, Catastrophe, Ecology
The term “catastrophe” has a complex history that has become deeply embedded in Western, and increasingly global, cultures. So it is natural enough, when confronted by a phenomenon as harrowing as climate change, to employ the concept and its attendant connotations. But the lens of catastrophe often distorts more than it reveals
Microdramas
Reviewed by: Microdramas: Crucibles for Theater and Time by John H. Muse Matthew Wilson Smith MICRODRAMAS: CRUCIBLES FOR THEATER AND TIME. By John H. Muse. Theater: Theory/Text/Performance series. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2017; pp. 246. It is tempting to think of modernity as an age of gigantism, of not only skyscrapers, steelyards, and world wars, but also the Ring cycle, Mahler's Symphony no. 3, and In Search of Lost Time. And y…
Laughing at the Redeemer
Matthew Wilson Smith discusses Wagner's “Parsifal” in relation to emerging discourses of psychology and aesthetics, and suggests that the work becomes in the process a proto-modern opera that dramatizes the increasingly problematic nature of both the self and representation
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Laughing at the Redeemer
Matthew Wilson Smith discusses Wagner's “Parsifal” in relation to emerging discourses of psychology and aesthetics, and suggests that the work becomes in the process a proto-modern opera that dramatizes the increasingly problematic nature of both the self and representation
Microdramas
Reviewed by: Microdramas: Crucibles for Theater and Time by John H. Muse Matthew Wilson Smith MICRODRAMAS: CRUCIBLES FOR THEATER AND TIME. By John H. Muse. Theater: Theory/Text/Performance series. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2017; pp. 246. It is tempting to think of modernity as an age of gigantism, of not only skyscrapers, steelyards, and world wars, but also the Ring cycle, Mahler's Symphony no. 3, and In Search of Lost Time. And y…
Tragedy, Catastrophe, Ecology
The term “catastrophe” has a complex history that has become deeply embedded in Western, and increasingly global, cultures. So it is natural enough, when confronted by a phenomenon as harrowing as climate change, to employ the concept and its attendant connotations. But the lens of catastrophe often distorts more than it reveals
What Can Scholars Do
The notion of spending a day
The Playbook
The Playbook delves into the turbulent life of the Federal Theater Project (FTP), a New Deal experiment launched in 1935 to bring theater to the masses, only to be crushed by the government four years later. Shapiro recounts the FTP's audacious productions, from Orson Welles's “Voodoo” Macbeth, set after the Haitian Revolution, to One Third of a Nation, an exposé of urban housing that blended newsreel and agitprop styles. Alongside such experimen…
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