Télécharger le livre :  Transposing Broadway
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...

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Parution : 2014-10-01
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Télécharger le livre :  The New Humor in the Progressive Era
By tracing the effects of unprecedented immigration, the advent of the new woman, and the little-known vaudeville careers of performers like the Elinore Sisters, Buster Keaton, and the Marx Brothers, DesRochers examines the relation between comedic vaudeville acts and...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-07-24
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Télécharger le livre :  Class Divisions on the Broadway Stage
Examining twenty-five years of theatre history, this book covers the major plays that feature representations of the Industrial Workers of the World. American class movement and class divisions have long been reflected on the Broadway stage and here Michael Schwartz...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-07-10
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Télécharger le livre :  America's First Regional Theatre
The Cleveland Play House has mirrored the achievements and struggles of both the city of Cleveland and the American theatre over the past one hundred years. This book challenges the established history (often put forward by the theatre itself) and long-held assumptions...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-05-14
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Télécharger le livre :  Entertaining Children
Children have been exploited as performers and wooed energetically as consumers throughout history. These essays offer scholarly investigations into the employment and participation of children in the entertainment industry with examples drawn from historical and...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-05-07
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Télécharger le livre :  The Group Theatre
The Group Theatre , a groundbreaking ensemble collective, started the careers of many top American theatre artists of the twentieth century and founded what became known as Method Acting. This book is the definitive history, based on over thirty years of research and...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-11-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Cultivating National Identity through Performance
As outdoor entertainment venues in American cities, pleasure gardens were public spaces where people could explore what it meant to be American. Stubbs examines how these venues helped form American identity and argues the gardens allowed for the exploration of what it...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-09-18
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Télécharger le livre :  A Sustainable Theatre
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...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-06-13
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Télécharger le livre :  Performing Hybridity in Colonial-Modern China
In Shanghai in the early twentieth century, a hybrid theatrical form, wenmingxi, emerged that was based on Western spoken theatre, classical Chinese theatre, and a Japanese hybrid form known as shinpa. This book places it in the context of its hybridized literary and...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-03-20
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Télécharger le livre :  Audrey Wood and the Playwrights
From Tennessee Williams and Carson McCullers to Arthur Kopit and Brian Friel, agent Audrey Wood encouraged and guided the unique talents of playwrights in the Broadway theatre of her day. Her quiet determination and burning enthusiasm brought America's finest...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-01-07
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Télécharger le livre :  Stage Designers in Early Twentieth-Century America
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...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-12-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Theatre, Youth, and Culture
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...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-12-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Uncle Tom's Cabin on the American Stage and Screen
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...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-11-12
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Télécharger le livre :  Loss and Cultural Remains in Performance
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...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-09-03
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Télécharger le livre :  Acts of Manhood
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...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-08-20
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Télécharger le livre :  Staging Holocaust Resistance
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...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-04-24
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Télécharger le livre :  Hijikata Tatsumi and Butoh
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...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-01-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Mei Lanfang and the Twentieth-Century International Stage
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...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-01-02
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Télécharger le livre :  The Drama of Marriage
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...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-01-02
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Télécharger le livre :  Russian Culture and Theatrical Performance in America, 1891-1933
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.

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-08-29
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