Expressionist Theater: Crash Course Theater #38

[@RangerRuby]

The person who decided to make Crash Course theater should get the world's most awesome nerd ever award!

[@thebeatisdead]

Expressionist theater, the goth of the drama world.

[@thehopeofeden597]

The real question is how this series gets me emotionally attached to a strung-up fake skull.

[@crashcourse]

I am also very attached to Yorick. -stan

[@RangerRuby]

No one truely knows!

[@raisa_cherry35]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@Beryllahawk]

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.

[@Jaydoggy531]

Amazing, and perfectly uncomfortable show.

[@claspe1049]

By Alban Berg wich I didn't know class test and now can never Forget..

[@TheHillDragon]

every episode: *Me:* _ooh, that's interesting_ *Mike:* _... but, we're saving that for [another time]_

[@blakestrike3905]

Literally most of crash courses videos

[@nechma13]

See I'm pissed cause they keep beating around Susan glaspell

[@Hattipillar]

this course has given more more information on the history of theatre than my theatre degree so far... big love

[@RariettyC]

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.

[@thehopeofeden597]

Ahhh. Mike is always here to make my Theatre Elective heart soar, even when I feel awful!

[@jennieivins]

Watching these each week is one of my favorite parts of Friday night. :)

[@dylanlundsten9696]

I've never been so interested in theatre before. Thanks crash course

[@silentserenity2364]

I love the way he shoots out facts like bullets lol like a machine gunn

[@acetronautinspace_acm]

"Uggh, reality. Have you seen reality? Why bother." Same

[@ShawnRavenfire]

I know this is theater and not movies, but I notice a style overlap between this and the silent film "Metropolis."

[@DarkAngelEU]

Metropolis is also considered to use Expressionist aesthetics, so you're right for sensing similarities ;)

[@andreeadobre3190]

Expressionism was huge in cinema too, look up The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.

[@aidanbehrens6518]

They're part of the same movement

[@ChessMasteryOfficial]

*You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.*

[@robertmcgann5881]

You are aware this is a theater series not literature. 2/10 for loss of focus

[@sceptre1067]

loved the chair creek in the intro, nice touch.

[@DogsRock414]

8:44 SOME OF THOSE WHO WORK FORCES-

[@emilyniedbala]

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

[@linnetwiddershins1983]

I’m sorry but “sentient skulls” is probably the best term for humans that I’ve ever heard.

[@williamswilliams5617]

Love that intro.

[@kmglasgo]

"Curtain...but a weird one!"

[@catherinayoung]

This is my favorite of this series

[@bf0189]

When are you getting to Brecht and epic theater? Can’t wait for that episode!

[@crashcourse]

Soon!

[@juliew326]

@@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!

[@sovietninja6865]

Also Beckett

[@ms.rstake_1211]

YASSS! THANK YOU!! Thanks for not letting us wait😊☺‼❗

[@AaronJShay]

Expressionists do it grotesquely.

[@viniislaif1532]

Great video i‘ve been waiting for a long time for! Thanks

[@superdark336]

Example of expressionist acting today: Nicholas Cage! He cites it as his number 1 inspiration.

[@marisp2588]

Can't wait for the broadway musical episode!!

[@pirateking56128]

Love this series.

[@claspe1049]

I had to read Woyzeck in class, I learned that you really can get shizophrenie from Eating to much peas.

[@williamstarsinic4244]

Mike great job. Clear, well written, and well spoken. Compare the other mealy mouthed rambling videos of others on KZbin.

[@SkipperBender]

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".

[@qwaqwa1960]

Just THANK YOU for all your great work :-))) Not even a theatre buff, but muchly enjoyed nonetheless.

[@PavarottiAardvark]

Mike, it's going to more than a malfunctioning 135 to keep me away from you

[@raisa_cherry35]

I studied "Hairy ape" in one of my uni courses,it's really interesting ❤👏

[@TobyInc.]

But hey! That's just a theory! A drama theory!

[@unleashingpotential-psycho9433]

Love this channel ❤️🔥🔥

[@nikmed7848]

Crash course should do a series on law!

[@ilikedota5]

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.

[@camiloiribarren1450]

Is Mike afraid of the dark? I like the Van Gogh connection to expressionism theater

[@TheMurdercool]

I'm really surprised he didn't mention anything about Kandinsky in this video!

[@onetwothreefour6122]

2:37 Please does anybody know where this image is from??

[@geoffreywinn4031]

Educational!

[@Jesse_Dawg]

Great episode!

[@ioan_jivan]

Nice intro

[@aidanbehrens6518]

This is a long shot, but I was wondering if Crash Course has a link to "Truth in Error" by Strindberg

[@t.a.m1876]

Do an episode on absurdism!

[@AbhiTamma]

yay new video

[@mojosbigsticks]

What about Edith Sitwell in 'Facade'?

[@nechma13]

I bet he'll forget Eugene Ionesco too

[@leoschenk2118]

What about the expressionist focus on the thought the world needs to be broken to be fixed, which made everything so dark

[@falnica]

A lot plays are based "on actual murders" what's up with that?

[@DrewLSsix]

Fernando Franco Félix Pulled from the headlines is a standard that predates police procedurals.

[@infinitafenix3153]

SUSAN GLASPELL!!

[@radicalbacon]

This is weird to watch right after watching "a lukewarm defense"

[@qwertyman1511]

how come?

[@radicalbacon]

@@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.

[@qwertyman1511]

+radicalbacon ah, i got used to hearing everyone everywhere.

[@AlexanderZapataIndividual]

*Metal Crotch Guy*

[@nadjal]

I hate to be this guy but "mise en scène" is pronounced mise en "sayne" not "seen"

[@cholten99]

As said correctly many times in Crash Course Film History

[@Marco_Onyxheart]

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?

[@SanguineThor]

@@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.

[@AbiSaysThings]

No it isn't? Should be senn not sayne.

[@КириллСахаренко]

В школе нам рассказывают меньше, чем я узнаю на этом канале!

[@innoxtechnology138]

Hoopla i'm alive

[@hotsistersue]

Curtain... but a weird one.

[@nechma13]

He's just a floating head why am i uncomfortable

[@hopedee3718]

Please Get Turkish subtitles

[@stormelemental13]

The more I learn about theater, the less I like it.

[@yarazooom]

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

[@sirBrouwer]

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

[@nechma13]

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

[@lachlanlfc]

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[@Marco_Onyxheart]

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_cherry35]

I studied "Hairy ape" in one of my uni courses,it's really interesting ❤👏