Julia A Walker
Biographic Data
| ID | 3792628 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julia A Walker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julia A |
| FAMILY NAME | Walker |
| SIGNATURE | WALKER J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Schlumberger (Ireland) |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5578-8785 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The birth of the ‘cool
Most histories of psychological-realist acting identify the mid-twentieth-century style with Lee Strasberg’s eponymous ‘Method,’ tracing its genealogy back to the work of Russian director Konstantin Stanislavsky and his Moscow Art Theatre protégés. The style’s most iconic practitioner—Marlon Brando—was more circumspect, however, rarely crediting Strasberg for his acting credentials. Taking Brando as a case study, I demonstrate other influences al…
Death in Modern Theatre
Reviewed by: Death in Modern Theatre: Stages of Mortality by Adrian Curtin Julia A. Walker DEATH IN MODERN THEATRE: STAGES OF MORTALITY. By Adrian Curtin. Theatre: Theory, Practice, Performance series. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019; pp. 268. As Adrian Curtin observes in the introduction to his new book Death in Modern Theatre: Stages of Mortality, the topic of "liveness" has long defined contemporary theories of theatre and perfor…
Bernard Shaw and Totalitarianism
In the Grip of an Obsession
In this article, Julia Walker challenges the current critical consensus among film scholars that the expressionist style of the German silent-film classic The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari bears no relation to its seemingly conventional romantic narrative. She begins by offering an allegorical reading of the film, showing how the well-established Freudian model of self that is figured in the Caligari / Cesare dyad is set in conflict with an older, mora…
Colonial Odysseys
Reviewed by: Colonial Odysseys: Empire and Epic in the Modernist Novel by David Adams Rebecca L. Walkowitz Colonial Odysseys: Empire and Epic in the Modernist Novel. By David Adams. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2003. Colonial Odysseys seeks to historicize two characteristics of modernist writing: its use of classical models and its articulation or critique of imperialism. David Adams attributes both of these characteristics to “th…
Why Performance? Why Now? Textuality and the Rearticulation of Human Presence
This essay traces the history of the text/performance split against the emergence of literary modernism to reveal how the category of the literary bears within it an "anti-performative" bias. Walker shows how this bias not only informs the metaphor of culture-as-text, so important to twentieth-century thought, but persists in contemporary social and cultural theory. Analyzing the work of Jacques Derrida and Judith Butler, she demonstrates how thi…
Staging Depth
Reviewed by: Staging Depth: Eugene O’Neill & The Politics Of Psychological Discourse Julia A. Walker Staging Depth: Eugene O’Neill & The Politics Of Psychological Discourse. By Joel Pfister. Cultural Studies of the United States. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995; pp. xxiv + 327. $45.00 cloth, $17.95 paper. Because our understanding of Eugene O’Neill’s plays has been so profoundly shaped by the notion of the psychological self…
In the Grip of an Obsession
In this article, Julia Walker challenges the current critical consensus among film scholars that the expressionist style of the German silent-film classic The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari bears no relation to its seemingly conventional romantic narrative. She begins by offering an allegorical reading of the film, showing how the well-established Freudian model of self that is figured in the Caligari / Cesare dyad is set in conflict with an older, mora…
Staging Depth
Reviewed by: Staging Depth: Eugene O’Neill & The Politics Of Psychological Discourse Julia A. Walker Staging Depth: Eugene O’Neill & The Politics Of Psychological Discourse. By Joel Pfister. Cultural Studies of the United States. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995; pp. xxiv + 327. $45.00 cloth, $17.95 paper. Because our understanding of Eugene O’Neill’s plays has been so profoundly shaped by the notion of the psychological self…
Why Performance? Why Now? Textuality and the Rearticulation of Human Presence
This essay traces the history of the text/performance split against the emergence of literary modernism to reveal how the category of the literary bears within it an "anti-performative" bias. Walker shows how this bias not only informs the metaphor of culture-as-text, so important to twentieth-century thought, but persists in contemporary social and cultural theory. Analyzing the work of Jacques Derrida and Judith Butler, she demonstrates how thi…
Colonial Odysseys
Reviewed by: Colonial Odysseys: Empire and Epic in the Modernist Novel by David Adams Rebecca L. Walkowitz Colonial Odysseys: Empire and Epic in the Modernist Novel. By David Adams. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2003. Colonial Odysseys seeks to historicize two characteristics of modernist writing: its use of classical models and its articulation or critique of imperialism. David Adams attributes both of these characteristics to “th…
In the Grip of an Obsession
In this article, Julia Walker challenges the current critical consensus among film scholars that the expressionist style of the German silent-film classic The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari bears no relation to its seemingly conventional romantic narrative. She begins by offering an allegorical reading of the film, showing how the well-established Freudian model of self that is figured in the Caligari / Cesare dyad is set in conflict with an older, mora…
Bernard Shaw and Totalitarianism
The birth of the ‘cool
Most histories of psychological-realist acting identify the mid-twentieth-century style with Lee Strasberg’s eponymous ‘Method,’ tracing its genealogy back to the work of Russian director Konstantin Stanislavsky and his Moscow Art Theatre protégés. The style’s most iconic practitioner—Marlon Brando—was more circumspect, however, rarely crediting Strasberg for his acting credentials. Taking Brando as a case study, I demonstrate other influences al…
Death in Modern Theatre
Reviewed by: Death in Modern Theatre: Stages of Mortality by Adrian Curtin Julia A. Walker DEATH IN MODERN THEATRE: STAGES OF MORTALITY. By Adrian Curtin. Theatre: Theory, Practice, Performance series. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019; pp. 268. As Adrian Curtin observes in the introduction to his new book Death in Modern Theatre: Stages of Mortality, the topic of "liveness" has long defined contemporary theories of theatre and perfor…
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