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147 produkter
Performing Bodies in Pain
Medieval and Post-Modern Martyrs, Mystics, and Artists
Av M. Carlson
Inbunden, 2011
1037 kr
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This text analyzes the cultural work of spectacular suffering in contemporary discourse and late-medieval France, reading recent dramatizations of torture and performances of self-mutilating conceptual art against late-medieval saint plays.
Early-Twentieth-Century Frontier Dramas on Broadway
Situating the Western Experience in Performing Arts
Inbunden, 2011
583 kr
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Frontier dramas were among the most popular and successful of early-twentieth-century Broadway type plays. The long runs of contemporary dramas not only indicate the popularity of these plays but also tell us that these plays offered views about the frontier that original audiences could and did …
Mei Lanfang and the Twentieth-Century International Stage
Chinese Theatre Placed and Displaced
Av M. Tian
Inbunden, 2011
522 kr
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The first book-length study in any language of the presence and influence of Mei Lanfang, the internationally known Chinese actor who specialized in female roles on the twentieth-century international stage. Tian investigates Mei Lanfang's presence and influence and the transnational and …
Transposing Broadway
Jews, Assimilation, and the American Musical
Av S. Hecht
Inbunden, 2011
522 kr
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Over the last hundred years, musical theatre artists - from Berlin to Rodgers and Hammerstein to Sondheim - have developed a form that corresponds directly to the Americanization of the increasingly Jewish New York audience; and that audience's aspirations and concerns have played out in the shows …
Staging the People
Community and Identity in the Federal Theatre Project
Inbunden, 2011
800 kr
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The Federal Theatre Project, a New Deal plan to fund theatre and other live artistic performances during the Great Depression, had the primary goal of employing out-of-work artists, writers, and directors, with the secondary aim of entertaining poor families and creating relevant art. These case …
Russian Culture and Theatrical Performance in America, 1891-1933
Av V. Hohman
Inbunden, 2011
553 kr
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Examining the work of impresarios, financiers, and the press as well as the artists themselves, Hohman demonstrates how a variety of Russian theatrical styles were introduced and incorporated into American theatre and dance during the beginning of the twentieth century.
Uncle Tom's Cabin on the American Stage and Screen
Av J. Frick
Inbunden, 2012
583 kr
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No play in the history of the American stage has been as ubiquitous and as widely viewed as Uncle Tom's Cabin. This book traces the major dramatizations of Stowe's classic from its inception in 1852 through modern versions on film. Frick introduces the reader to the artists who created the plays …
Stage Designers in Early Twentieth-Century America
Artists, Activists, Cultural Critics
Av E. Essin
Inbunden, 2012
522 kr
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By casting designers as authors, cultural critics, activists, entrepreneurs, and global cartographers, Essin tells a story about scenic images on the page, stage, and beyond that helped American audiences see the everyday landscapes and exotic destinations from a modern perspective.
Baggy Pants Comedy
Burlesque and the Oral Tradition
Av A. Davis
Inbunden, 2011
522 kr
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The first full-length study of comedy on the burlesque stage, this book takes the reader inside the burlesque houses of the 1930s, looks at the role comedy played in an entertainment form known mostly for striptease, and explores how these sketch performers approached their craft.
Theatre, Youth, and Culture
A Critical and Historical Exploration
Av Kenneth A. Loparo, Manon van de Water m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
1037 kr
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There is a complex relationship between performance, youth, and the shifting material circumstances (social, cultural, economic, ideological, and political) under which theatre for children and youth is generated and perceived. This book explores different aspect of theatre for young audiences …
Hijikata Tatsumi and Butoh
Dancing in a Pool of Gray Grits
Av B. Baird
Inbunden, 2012
1037 kr
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Hijikata Tatsumi's explosive 1959 debut Forbidden Colors sparked a new genre of performance in Japan - butoh: an art form of contrasts, by turns shocking and serene. Since then, though interest has grown exponentially, and people all over the world are drawn to butoh's ability to enact paradox and …
Drama of Marriage
Gay Playwrights/Straight Unions from Oscar Wilde to the Present
Av J. Clum
Inbunden, 2011
1158 kr
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In studying performances of marriage in modern and contemporary British and American drama, Clum highlights the fact that - paradoxically - at a time when theatre was both popular entertainment and high culture, many of the most commercially and artistically successful plays about marriage were …
Loss and Cultural Remains in Performance
The Ghosts of the Franklin Expedition
Inbunden, 2012
522 kr
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In 1845, John Franklin's Northwest Passage expedition disappeared. The expedition left an archive of performative remains that entice one to consider the tension between material remains and memory and reflect on how substitution and surrogation work alongside mourning and melancholia as responses …
Acts of Manhood
The Performance of Masculinity on the American Stage, 1828–1865
Av K. Kippola
Inbunden, 2012
522 kr
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Exploring the performance of masculinity on and off the nineteenth-century American stage, this book looks at the shift from the passionate muscularity to intellectual restraint as not a linear journey toward national refinement; but a multitude of masculinities fighting simultaneously for …
Sustainable Theatre
Jasper Deeter at Hedgerow
Av B. Witham
Inbunden, 2013
522 kr
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Begun as an audacious experiment, for thirty years the Hedgerow Theatre prospered as America's most successful repertory company. While known for its famous alumnae (Ann Harding and Richard Basehart), Hedgerow's legacy is a living library of over 200 productions created by Jasper Deeter's …
Staging Holocaust Resistance
Inbunden, 2012
583 kr
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Plunka argues that drama is the ideal art form to revitalize the collective memory of Holocaust resistance. This comparative drama study examines a variety of international plays - some quite well-known, others more obscure - that focus on collective or individual defiance of the Nazis.
Directors and the New Musical Drama
British and American Musical Theatre in the 1980s and 90s
Inbunden, 2008
522 kr
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This is one of the first books to offer a rigorous analysis of the enormous changes in the musical theatre during the 1980s and 90s. In addition, it focuses on the contribution of well-known, serious theatre directors to the mainstream Musical Theatre and it is the first book to offer a dual …
Memory in Play
From Aeschylus to Sam Shepard
Av A. Favorini
Inbunden, 2009
569 kr
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This innovative study examines the role of memory in the history of theatre and drama. Favorini analyzes issues of memory in self-construction, collective memory, the clash of memory and history and even explores what the work of cognitive scientists can teach us about brain function and our …
Performing Magic on the Western Stage
From the Eighteenth Century to the Present
Inbunden, 2009
1131 kr
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Performing Magic on the Western Stage examines magic as a performing art and as a meaningful social practice, linking magic to cultural arenas such as religion, finance, gender, and nationality and profiling magicians from Robert-Houdin to Pen& Teller.
Rogue Performances
Staging the Underclasses in Early American Theatre Culture
Av P. Reed
Inbunden, 2009
522 kr
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Rogue Performances recovers eighteenth and nineteenth-century American culture s fascination with outcast and rebellious characters. Highwaymen, thieves, beggars, rioting mobs, rebellious slaves, and mutineers dominated the stage in the period s most popular plays. Peter Reed also explores ways …
On the Uses of the Fantastic in Modern Theatre
Cocteau, Oedipus, and the Monster
Inbunden, 2008
569 kr
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The book reveals how the fantastic is used in modern theatre as a manipulative device to encode the unspeakable and control audience response, challenging conventional readings of all authors who use the fantastic.
Staging Stigma
A Critical Examination of the American Freak Show
Av M. Chemers
Inbunden, 2008
553 kr
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Staging Stigma is a captivating excursion into the bizarre world of the American freak show. Chemers critically examines several key moments of a performance tradition in which the truth is often stranger than the fiction. Grounded in meticulous historical research and cultural criticism, Chemers …
Vaudeville Wars
How the Keith-Albee and Orpheum Circuits Controlled the Big-Time and Its Performers
Av A. Wertheim
Häftad, 2009
553 kr
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This book maps the intriguing story about how the tycoons of the two most powerful circuits, Keith-Albee in the East and the Orpheum in the West, conspired to control the big time. Despite the battles between the performers and the circuit moguls, the vaudeville wars forged an electrifying …
Theatre and Religion on Krishna’s Stage
Performing in Vrindavan
Av D. Mason
Inbunden, 2009
522 kr
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Theatre and Religion on Krishna s Stage examines the history and form of India's râs lila folk theatre, and discusses how this theatre functions as a mechanism of worship and spirituality among Krishna devotees in India. From analyses of performances and conversations with performers, audience, and …
Mendel’s Theatre
Heredity, Eugenics, and Early Twentieth-Century American Drama
Av T. Wolff
Inbunden, 2009
522 kr
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Mendel's Theatre offers a new way of thinking about early twentieth-century American drama by uncovering the rich convergence of heredity theory, the American eugenics movement, and innovative modern drama from the 1890s to 1930.
Broadway and Corporate Capitalism
The Rise of the Professional-Managerial Class, 1900–1920
Av M. Schwartz
Inbunden, 2009
522 kr
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Through an examination of plays, actors, reviews, and audience response of the period, this study traces the development of Broadway as a source of 'mature' American drama, and the simultaneous development of Professional-Managerial Class consciousness and habitus.
Theatre, Performance and the Historical Avant-Garde
Av G. Berghaus
Häftad, 2010
553 kr
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This study traces the origins of European modernism in Nineteenth-century Paris, examining every major avant-garde movement that sprung from this epicentre in the early Twentieth century: Expressionism, Dadaism, etc. In this wide-ranging overview Berghaus demonstrates a mastery of primary and …
Interrogating America through Theatre and Performance
Av W. Demastes
Häftad, 2009
522 kr
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This collection of essays dissects American plays, movies and other performance types that examine America and its history and culture. From Amerindian stage performances to AIDS and post-9/11 America, it displays the various and important ways theatre and performance studies have examined and …
Beyond the Golden Door
Jewish American Drama and Jewish American Experience
Av J. Novick
Häftad, 2009
522 kr
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Beyond the Golden Door is the first book devoted to showing how Jewish playwrights of the twentieth century have dramatized the Jewish encounter with America. Questions dealt within this study include - How do you balance old world heritage with new world opportunity? What does it mean to be a Jew …
Plays in American Periodicals, 1890-1918
Av Susan Harris Smith, Kenneth A. Loparo m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
678 kr
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This book examines over 125 American, English, Irish and Anglo-Indian plays by 70 dramatists which were published in 14 American general interest periodicals aimed at the middle-class reader and consumer.
