The Arthur Miller Journal The Arthur Miller Journal provides a lasting legacy to Miller’s significant contributions to American drama. The journal is published twice yearly under the auspices of the publications division of St. Francis College in cooperation with the Arthur Miller Society and the Arthur Miller Centre at the University of East Anglia. For further information, visit the Arthur Miller Society website: www.ibiblio.org/miller/ or contact Stephen Marino, editor, at [email protected]
Volume 1 Number 1 Spring 2006
Contents Editor’s Note: “I have no wisdom beyond my plays.” 1 Arthur Miller: Un-American Christopher Bigsby 3 “Pattern Born Amid Formlessness”: The Law of Chaos in the Plays of Arthur Miller Steven R. Centola 19 Arthur Miller’s Staging of the Threshold of Violence Jeffrey Mason 31 Uneasy Collaboration: Miller, Kazan, and After the Fall Brenda Murphy 51 A Final Conversation with Arthur Miller Interviewed by Christopher Bigsby 63 Book Reviews 81 Bigsby, Christopher. Remembering Arthur Miller.
Brater, Enoch. Arthur Miller, A Playwright’s Life and Work.
Miller, Arthur. The Collected Plays of Arthur Miller, 1944-1961, edited by Tony Kushner.
Performance Reviews 85
A View From the Bridge by Carlos Campo, The Price by Jane Dominik, The Price by Stephen Marino, All My Sons by Will Smith, A Tribute to Arthur Miller by Stephen Marino, Death of a Salesman and Awake and Sing by Nicole De Sapio, Resurrection Blues by Jan Balakian, Resurrection Blues by Kate Egerton
Volume 1 Number 2 Fall 2006
Contents
The “line to measure from”: Arthur Miller’s The American Clock as a Lesson for the Ages Susan C.W. Abbotson 1 Music in Miller’s Drama Jane K. Dominik 21 Miller and Derrida Peter Costello 39 A Conversation with Eli Wallach Interviewed by Joseph Kane 53
Book Reviews 65 Ali, Syed Mashkoor. Arthur Miller, Twentieth Century Legend.
Centola, Steven R. and Michelle Cirulli. The Critical Response to Arthur Miller.
Viswamohan, Aysha. Arthur Miller: The Dramatist and His Universe.
Performance Reviews 77 All My Sons by Susan Abbotson, The Crucible by Lew Livesay, The Archbishop’s Ceiling by Ashis Sengupta, All My Sons by Stephen Marino Volume 2 Number 1 Spring 2007
Contents
“There’s No Place Like Home”: Miller’s ‘Poem,’ Frost’s ‘Play’ George Monteiro 1 The Road to Reno: Inge Morath, Marilyn Monroe, and The Embodiment of the American West Katherine Egerton 15 The Revolt of Responsibility: A Symbolic Reading of Miller’s Incident at Vichy Joshua E. Polster 25 “A smile and a shoeshine” From F. Scott Fitzgerald to Jonathan Franzen, By Way of Arthur Miller: The American Dream in The Great Gatsby, Death of a Salesman, and The Corrections Ty Hawkins 49
Book Reviews 69 Brater, Enoch. Global Miller.
Langteau, Paula. Miller and Middle America
Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies 2.2 (Fall 2005)
Performance Reviews 77
The Crucible by Yuko Kurahashi, The Price by Jan Balakian, All My Sons by Susan Abbotson, All My Sons by Joseph Kane, Broken Glass by Jane K. Dominik, Death of a Salesman by Jane K. Dominik, The Crucible by George Castellitto.
The Arthur Miller Society, Program and Abstracts from the Eleventh Arthur Miller Conference, Call for Papers, Conference Announcements 101
Volume 2 Number 2 Fall 2007
Contents
A Fallible Hero Christopher Bigsby 1
The Greatest Cars Ever Built: Arthur Miller’s Production Line of Chevrolets, Buicks, Studebakers, Marmons, Porsches and Other Vehicles of Death and Destruction, Stephen Marino 5
Arthur Miller’s ‘Dream Tissue’: Uncanny Parallels between Fritz Lang’s Testament of Dr. Mabuse and Miller’s Everybody Wins Lew Livesay 17
Notes
Five Willys Leigh Woods 33
‘When you look at me, you don't see me’: Sight and Self in Miller’s Focus Carlos Campo 37
Opening of the Arthur Miller Theatre University of Michigan 41
Book Reviews 45
Miller, Arthur. Presence.
Carpenter, Charles. Bibliography of Arthur Miller.
Performance Reviews 49
Death of a Salesman by Frank Bergmann, The Crucible by Carol Bailey, Death of a Salesman by Peter Hays, Death of a Salesman by Philip Wissbeck, The Crucible by Philip Wissbeck
The Arthur Miller Society, Program and Abstracts from the American Literature Association May 2007, Call for Papers, Conference Announcements 59
Contributors 67
Volume 3 Number 1 Spring 2008
Contents
Drama Matters: Suitcases, Sand, and Dry Goods Enoch Brater 1
Another View From the Bridge Thomas Horan 17
“Paradise Keeps Slipping Back”: The Misfits and After the Fall Ashis Sengupta 29
A Conversation with Joan Copeland Interviewed by Stephen Marino 43
Notes
The Young God: “Gold” as Theme and Motif in Death of a Salesman and Golden Boy Nicole De Sapio. 67
Then the Country Itself Was Gone Joseph Masselli 77
Book Reviews 81
Abbotson, Susan. A Critical Companion to Arthur Miller: A Literary Reference to His Life and Work.
Performance Reviews 83
The Price by Mary Isbell, “An Audience with Brian Dennehy” by Joe Kane, I Can’t Remember Anything by Catherine Clavin, The Crucible by David Smith, The Crucible by Stephen Marino, The Crucible by Students of St. Francis Prep, The Crucible by Will Smith, The Man Who Had All the Luck by Christopher Bigsby, The Man Who Had All the Luck by Molly Marino
The Arthur Miller Society In Memoriam: Steven R. Centola 113
Call for Papers, Conference Announcements 117
Contributors 119
Cover Design by Addie Marino, based on Joseph Hirsch's drawing of Willy Loman, which appeared on the first edition of Death of a Salesman.