Winner of the 2016 George Jean Nathan AwardMethod Acting and Its Discontents: On American Psycho-Drama provides a new understanding of a crucial chapter in American theater history. Enelowrsquo;s consideration of the broader cultural climate of the late 1950s and early 1960s; specifically the debates within psychology and psychoanalysis; the periodrsquo;s racial and sexual politics; and the rise of mass media; gives us a nuanced; complex picture of Lee Strasberg and the Actors Studio and contemporaneous works of drama. Combining cultural analysis; dramaturgical criticism; and performance theory; Enelow shows how Method actingrsquo;s contradictions reveal powerful tensions inside mid-century notions of individual and collective identity.
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