Télécharger le livre :  Entertaining Children
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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
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
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Télécharger le livre :  The Group Theatre
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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
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
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Télécharger le livre :  Cultivating National Identity through Performance
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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
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
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Télécharger le livre :  Performing Hybridity in Colonial-Modern China
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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
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
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Télécharger le livre :  Theatre, Youth, and Culture
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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...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-12-23
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
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Télécharger le livre :  Stage Designers in Early Twentieth-Century America
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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...

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

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

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-09-03
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
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Télécharger le livre :  Staging Holocaust Resistance
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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...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-04-24
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
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Télécharger le livre :  Hijikata Tatsumi and Butoh
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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...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-01-30
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
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Télécharger le livre :  The Drama of Marriage
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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...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-01-02
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
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Télécharger le livre :  Mei Lanfang and the Twentieth-Century International Stage
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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...

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

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-08-29
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
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Télécharger le livre :  Staging the People
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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...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-06-20
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
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Télécharger le livre :  Early-Twentieth-Century Frontier Dramas on Broadway
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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...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-05-23
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
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Télécharger le livre :  Performing Bodies in Pain
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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.

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-08-16
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
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Télécharger le livre :  Lady Macbeth in America
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Lady Macbeth has haunted American history since the conflicts of Shakespeare s England spilled over into New England s real witch hunts. To reveal howLady Macbeth entered American politics as an icon for the First Lady, this investigation focuses on the prominent...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-02-01
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
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Télécharger le livre :  Rogue Performances
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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....

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2009-06-22
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
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Télécharger le livre :  Theatre and Religion on Krishna's Stage
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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...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2009-05-25
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
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Télécharger le livre :  Mendel's Theatre
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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.

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2009-05-11
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
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