Télécharger le livre :  American Puppet Modernism
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Please note this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title (PTO). Stock of this book requires shipment from an overseas supplier. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. This study analyses the history of puppet, mask, and performing object theatre in the United States over...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-04-30
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
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Télécharger le livre :  Staging Stigma
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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...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-04-29
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
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Télécharger le livre :  The Education of a Circus Clown
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2017 Freedley Award Finalist, Theatre Library Association 2016 Best Circus Book of the Year, Stuart Thayer Prize, Circus Historical Society The 1960s American hippie-clown boom fostered many creative impulses, including neo-vaudeville and Ringling's Clown College....

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-01-28
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
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Télécharger le livre :  Child Labor in the British Victorian Entertainment Industry
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Child labor greatly contributed to the cultural and economic success of the British Victorian theatrical industry. This book highlights the complexities of the battle for child labor laws, the arguments for the needs of the theatre industry, and the weight of opposition...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-01-26
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
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Télécharger le livre :  The Theatre of the Occult Revival
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This book explores the religious foundations, political and social significance, and aesthetic aspects of the theatre created by the leaders of the Occult Revival. Lingan shows how theatre contributed to the fragmentation of Western religious culture and how...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-11-19
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
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Télécharger le livre :  American Playwriting and the Anti-Political Prejudice
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Twenty years after Tony Kushner's influential Angels in America seemed to declare a revitalized potency for the popular political play, there is a "No Politics" prejudice undermining US production and writing. This book explores the largely unrecognized...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-11-06
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
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Télécharger le livre :  Staging the Slums, Slumming the Stage
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Drawing on traditional archival research, reception theory, cultural histories of slumming, and recent work in critical theory on literary representations of poverty, Westgate argues that the productions of slum plays served as enactments of the emergent definitions of...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-10-15
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
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Télécharger le livre :  Transposing Broadway
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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...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-10-01
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
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Télécharger le livre :  The New Humor in the Progressive Era
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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
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
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Télécharger le livre :  Class Divisions on the Broadway Stage
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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
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
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Télécharger le livre :  America's First Regional Theatre
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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
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
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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 :  A Sustainable Theatre
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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...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-06-13
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 :  Audrey Wood and the Playwrights
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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
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 :  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 :  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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