The person who decided to make Crash Course theater should get the world's most awesome nerd ever award!
@thebeatisdead5 жыл бұрын
Expressionist theater, the goth of the drama world.
@thehopeofeden5975 жыл бұрын
The real question is how this series gets me emotionally attached to a strung-up fake skull.
@crashcourse5 жыл бұрын
I am also very attached to Yorick. -stan
@RangerRuby5 жыл бұрын
No one truely knows!
@raisa_cherry354 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂😂😂
@Beryllahawk5 жыл бұрын
I recall watching the opera Wozzeck. Scary stuff. From the way I see it, Expressionism was like the echo of all the screams of the dying in the first World War.
@Jaydoggy5315 жыл бұрын
Amazing, and perfectly uncomfortable show.
@claspe10495 жыл бұрын
By Alban Berg wich I didn't know class test and now can never Forget..
@TheHillDragon5 жыл бұрын
every episode: *Me:* _ooh, that's interesting_ *Mike:* _... but, we're saving that for [another time]_
@blakestrike39055 жыл бұрын
Literally most of crash courses videos
@nechma135 жыл бұрын
See I'm pissed cause they keep beating around Susan glaspell
@Hattipillar4 жыл бұрын
this course has given more more information on the history of theatre than my theatre degree so far... big love
@RariettyC5 жыл бұрын
Wow, perfect upload timing. I have an essay on expressionist film due at the end of this weekend for my university film history course that I've been suffering with writer's block towards, but this gave me tons of inspiration. Time to go write a killer introductory paragraph.
@thehopeofeden5975 жыл бұрын
Ahhh. Mike is always here to make my Theatre Elective heart soar, even when I feel awful!
@jennieivins5 жыл бұрын
Watching these each week is one of my favorite parts of Friday night. :)
@dylanlundsten96965 жыл бұрын
I've never been so interested in theatre before. Thanks crash course
@silentserenity23645 жыл бұрын
I love the way he shoots out facts like bullets lol like a machine gunn
@ariannamonson40925 жыл бұрын
"Uggh, reality. Have you seen reality? Why bother." Same
@ShawnRavenfire5 жыл бұрын
I know this is theater and not movies, but I notice a style overlap between this and the silent film "Metropolis."
@DarkAngelEU5 жыл бұрын
Metropolis is also considered to use Expressionist aesthetics, so you're right for sensing similarities ;)
@andreeadobre31904 жыл бұрын
Expressionism was huge in cinema too, look up The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.
@aidanbehrens65184 жыл бұрын
They're part of the same movement
@emilyniedbala5 жыл бұрын
I’ve been waiting for this Spring Awakening reference for so long, yes! Please bring it back for something with Deaf West later when we get to musicals, because deaf representation is cool
@williamswilliams56175 жыл бұрын
Love that intro.
@sceptre10675 жыл бұрын
loved the chair creek in the intro, nice touch.
@superdark3365 жыл бұрын
Example of expressionist acting today: Nicholas Cage! He cites it as his number 1 inspiration.
@linnetwiddershins19835 жыл бұрын
I’m sorry but “sentient skulls” is probably the best term for humans that I’ve ever heard.
@kmglasgo5 жыл бұрын
"Curtain...but a weird one!"
@DogsRock4144 жыл бұрын
8:44 SOME OF THOSE WHO WORK FORCES-
@marisp25885 жыл бұрын
Can't wait for the broadway musical episode!!
@catherinayoung5 жыл бұрын
This is my favorite of this series
@ms.rstake_12115 жыл бұрын
YASSS! THANK YOU!! Thanks for not letting us wait😊☺‼❗
@bf01895 жыл бұрын
When are you getting to Brecht and epic theater? Can’t wait for that episode!
@crashcourse5 жыл бұрын
Soon!
@juliew3265 жыл бұрын
@@crashcourse Phew, I just scoured through all the episodes, thinking I must have missed it. I teach drama and wanted my students to watch it... Looking forward to it!
@sovietninja68655 жыл бұрын
Also Beckett
@unleashingpotential-psycho94335 жыл бұрын
Love this channel ❤️🔥🔥
@ChessMasteryOfficial5 жыл бұрын
*You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.*
@robertmcgann58815 жыл бұрын
You are aware this is a theater series not literature. 2/10 for loss of focus
@claspe10495 жыл бұрын
I had to read Woyzeck in class, I learned that you really can get shizophrenie from Eating to much peas.
@viniislaif15325 жыл бұрын
Great video i‘ve been waiting for a long time for! Thanks
@williamstarsinic42444 жыл бұрын
Mike great job. Clear, well written, and well spoken. Compare the other mealy mouthed rambling videos of others on KZbin.
@pirateking561285 жыл бұрын
Love this series.
@AaronJShay5 жыл бұрын
Expressionists do it grotesquely.
@PavarottiAardvark5 жыл бұрын
Mike, it's going to more than a malfunctioning 135 to keep me away from you
@raisa_cherry354 жыл бұрын
I studied "Hairy ape" in one of my uni courses,it's really interesting ❤👏
@qwaqwa19605 жыл бұрын
Just THANK YOU for all your great work :-))) Not even a theatre buff, but muchly enjoyed nonetheless.
@Jesse_Dawg5 жыл бұрын
Great episode!
@geoffreywinn40315 жыл бұрын
Educational!
@nikmed78485 жыл бұрын
Crash course should do a series on law!
@camiloiribarren14505 жыл бұрын
Is Mike afraid of the dark? I like the Van Gogh connection to expressionism theater
@TheMurdercool5 жыл бұрын
I'm really surprised he didn't mention anything about Kandinsky in this video!
@TobyInc.4 жыл бұрын
But hey! That's just a theory! A drama theory!
@SkipperBender5 жыл бұрын
Interesting video :) But what a weird combo reference to the music group Aqua and Queen at 7:56. And it was not that "Doctor Jones".
@ioan_jivan Жыл бұрын
Nice intro
@leoschenk21185 жыл бұрын
What about the expressionist focus on the thought the world needs to be broken to be fixed, which made everything so dark
@CoolWheat5 жыл бұрын
yay new video
@t.a.m18765 жыл бұрын
Do an episode on absurdism!
@nechma135 жыл бұрын
I bet he'll forget Eugene Ionesco too
@ilikedota55 жыл бұрын
heh. in charge of bavarian ssr for a red hot second. also i believe at 7:12 you possibly mispronounced it. Wheezywaiter pronounced it in what i'm guessing is the original french in the movie series.
@aidanbehrens65184 жыл бұрын
This is a long shot, but I was wondering if Crash Course has a link to "Truth in Error" by Strindberg
@infinitafenix31535 жыл бұрын
SUSAN GLASPELL!!
@radicalbacon5 жыл бұрын
This is weird to watch right after watching "a lukewarm defense"
@qwertyman15115 жыл бұрын
how come?
@radicalbacon5 жыл бұрын
@@qwertyman1511 Mike read out loud Christian Grey's dialogue for Dan Olsen's "a lukewarm defense of fifty shades" series. The last installment was published at about the same time as this.
@qwertyman15115 жыл бұрын
+radicalbacon ah, i got used to hearing everyone everywhere.
@mojosbigsticks5 жыл бұрын
What about Edith Sitwell in 'Facade'?
@hotsistersue5 жыл бұрын
Curtain... but a weird one.
@falnica5 жыл бұрын
A lot plays are based "on actual murders" what's up with that?
@DrewLSsix5 жыл бұрын
Fernando Franco Félix Pulled from the headlines is a standard that predates police procedurals.
@КириллСахаренко5 жыл бұрын
В школе нам рассказывают меньше, чем я узнаю на этом канале!
@innoxtechnology1385 жыл бұрын
Hoopla i'm alive
@AlexanderZapataIndividual5 жыл бұрын
*Metal Crotch Guy*
@nadjal5 жыл бұрын
I hate to be this guy but "mise en scène" is pronounced mise en "sayne" not "seen"
@cholten995 жыл бұрын
As said correctly many times in Crash Course Film History
@Marco_Onyxheart5 жыл бұрын
He's also severely butchering the name Van Gogh. If you asked for what he's saying in the Netherlands, you'd just get a bag of liquorice. Venco is a popular brand. Don't people do any research before making a video?
@SanguineThor5 жыл бұрын
@@Marco_Onyxheart buddy chill. Crash course does a lot if research for every episode. Just because he doesnt say "VAHN GAUCGH" or however you pronounce it, doesnt mean the facts he presents about the man are wrong. Thats a fallacy in itself.
@AbiSaysThings5 жыл бұрын
No it isn't? Should be senn not sayne.
@nechma135 жыл бұрын
He's just a floating head why am i uncomfortable
@onetwothreefour61225 жыл бұрын
2:37 Please does anybody know where this image is from??
@hopedee37185 жыл бұрын
Please Get Turkish subtitles
@yarazooom5 жыл бұрын
EXPRESSIONist types in america all went to Europe to express, Gordon -Craig was love of isadora Duncan the 1st expressionist dancer. it too bad you didnt combine the dance-theater in Germany n France as part of this section, n new cinema-art. but over al OUTSTANDING exposer to the nitemare of pre/post WW I on the western world...life informs art
@sirBrouwer5 жыл бұрын
Why does everybody always pronounce Vincents van Gogh last name as: van Go? the gh in his name is a hard G. not a silent vowel
@nechma135 жыл бұрын
See you brought up American expressionism and Eugene O'Neil but you continue to ignore Susan glaspell who inspired Sophie Treadwell stop erasing this women she was amazing and was a mentor to O'neile i am so angry
@stormelemental135 жыл бұрын
The more I learn about theater, the less I like it.
@lachlanlfc5 жыл бұрын
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@Marco_Onyxheart5 жыл бұрын
Why can people making videos never research how to pronounce names correctly before talking about them? It's Van Gogh, not Venco. There are letters. They're supposed to be pronounced.
@raisa_cherry354 жыл бұрын
I studied "Hairy ape" in one of my uni courses,it's really interesting ❤👏