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New York University Press Theatrical Liberalism
Book SynopsisShows how the Jewish worldview that permeates American culture has reached far beyond the Jews who created it.Trade ReviewHer thesis is simple but persuasive, positing that from the 1920s until the 1940s, American Jewish writers created a number of works that sanctify the stage and the idea of performing. [] Most is strong on the theoretical [] Taking musicals seriously is welcome and refreshing. * Jewish Quarterly *Mosts outline of theatrical liberalism is compelling, is littered with insightful analysis of a range of texts, and draws upon a variety of theoretical writing that makes her arguments fresh and distinct. * Journal of American Culture *Demonstrates why and how Jews have been central to the development of Broadway, Tin Pan Alley, and Hollywood. Taking us on a rollercoaster ride through popular culture, from The Jazz Singer and Death of a Salesman to My Fair Lady and Blazing Saddles, Most analyzes the social anxieties that swirl around American self-fashioning and explains why these anxieties repeatedly play themselves out in competing notions of theatricality. Most radically, she shows us that so many of the most Jewish features of popular culture are also the most Americanthat American popular culture is Jewish culture. -- David Savran,Vera Mowry Roberts Chair in American Theatre, CUNYHer book is a bold effort to locate, within the apparatus of mass entertainment, something besides the claims of ancestral memories and loyalties. -- Stephen J. Whitfield * H-Net Reviews *In Theatrical Liberalism: Jews and Popular Entertainment in America, Andrea Most looks at how Jews combined Jewish culture and American liberalism to create a distinctive theatrical tradition. She also explores how this tradition has developed and changed from the 1930s to contemporary times. -- Rabbi Rachel Esserman * The Reporter *This is a remarkable book, sweeping in its range of material, sharp in its reasoning, and loaded with so many insights that it will reward the reader with many returns in its pages....[T]his is a marvelous treatment of much-discussed but inexhaustible topics, not only of entertaining Jews but of Jewish modernity and post-modernity. Professor Most, take a bow: you deserve it. -- Paul Buhle * American Jewish History *Theatrical Liberalisms greatest contribution to the existing scholarly conversation regarding Jewish Americans and popular culture is her assertion that the secular/sacred binary, imposed by Protestant ideology, is ineffectual for analyzing the nuanced ways in which Judaic rituals and traditions influenced the allegedly nonreligious sphere of American entertainment. * American Studies *Makes new sense of aspects of popular culture we have all grown up with and thought we knew only too well. Most bridges religious studies and theater, political theory and American studies, high criticism and middlebrow performance. Her book will help us see better how Jews and their Jewishness did not merely 'enter' American popular culture, but did so much to invent it. -- Jonathan Boyarin, Leonard and Tobee Kaplan Distinguished Professor of Modern Jewish Thought, University of North CarolinaThe arguments are compelling, and the book is well researched and well written. -- K.J. Wetmore * Choice *This book will transform how many plays, performances, and texts are read, discussed, taught, and performed...Theatrical Liberalism is an important, original book that gets right to the heart of why Jews have been so disproportionately involved in popular performance. * Theatre Journal *Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgments ixSetting the Stage 11. Jews, Theatricality, and Modernity 152. The Birth of Theatrical Liberalism 393. Theatrical Liberalism under Attack 884. The Theatricality of Everyday Life 1415. Theatricality and Idolatry 1646. I Am a Theater 201Curtain Call 241Notes 247Credits 275Index 281About the Author 293
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New York University Press Brown Boys and Rice Queens
Book SynopsisHonorable Mention for the 2015 Cultural Studies Best Book presented by the Association of Asian American StudiesWinner of the 2013 CLAGS Fellowship Award for Best First Book Project in LGBT StudiesA transnational study of Asian performance shaped by the homoerotics of orientalism, Brown Boys and Rice Queens focuses on the relationship between the white man and the native boy. Eng-Beng Lim unpacks this as the central trope for understanding colonial and cultural encounters in 20th and 21st century Asia and its diaspora. Using the native boy as a critical guide, Lim formulates alternative readings of a traditional Balinese ritual, postcolonial Anglophone theatre in Singapore, and performance art in Asian America.Tracing the transnational formation of the native boy as racial fetish object across the last century, Lim follows this figure as he is passed from the hands of the colonial empire to the postcolonial naTrade ReviewBrown Boys and Rice Queensskillfully exfoliates the layers of erotic, political, and cultural investments in inter-racial queer intimacies between the Western desiring male subject and the nubile Oriental boy figure brought about by colonial anddiasporicencounters between Asia and the West.Limelegantly dissects the spell-binding cultural effects of this dyad and conjures new critical perspectives about race, sexuality, and performance. A finely crafted, meticulously analyzed, and intensely provocative multi-sited research,Brown Boys and Rice Queenswill be a touchstone for future works and debates in queer andperformance studies. -- Martin F. Manalansan IV,University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignAll in all, this book manages to cast its own spells and seductions and in its rendering of the centrality of the erotic dyad of the white man/brown boy to colonial knowledge production, Lim makes significant and indelible contributions to the histories of global performance, the Asias, queer theory and cultural colonialism. -- Jack Halberstam * Emisferica *Brown Boys and Rice Queenstroubles the East/West binary relation that takes for granted the imperialist power of the West as absolute and the East as passive subjects to this power . . . . It proposes a rethinking of the meanings of native and ethnic by bridging the disparities in significance to postcolonial studies and ethnic studies. * Signs *This well-organized book is a crucial addition to the growing body of scholarship on contemporary Asian performance. Lim's writing is fluid and strikes a perfect balance among personal anecdotes, archival information, and theory, which makes the book an enjoyable and an engrossing read. * Theatre Journal *Lims book is invaluable, generatively opening spaces for survival within our field of inquiry, illuminating the already existent encounters between our disciplines, and staging the conditions that can make other encounters possible. * Women & Performance *Eng-Beng Lim is interested in many things, and they are all here inBrown Boys and Rice Queens. . . . Lim concludes that he has 'explored . . . the native boy and his transmogrifications in the queer Asias attuned to Orientalism, colonial homoerotics, and dyadic performance' and that he has. Alongside Katsuhiko Suganuma'sContact Momentsand Hoang Tan Nguyen'sA View From the Bottom, the queer Asian male is now getting to talk back. And he is not done * The Journal of Asian Studies *Eng-Beng-Lims Brown Boys and Rice Queensdoes something fresh with anthropologys usual suspects...Power relationships are finessed in a critical analysis of the racial and sexual implications of homoerotic desire between the rice queen and Asian boy coupling. * Anthropological Quarterly *Whereas most scholarship that examines this Orientalist fantasy focuses on the trope of the brown woman, Lim draws attention to the often forgotten brown boy. Lim expands upon and presses on the traditional colonial configuration of the East as an exotic, alluring locale that casts & spells deemed potentially seductive and also threatening to Western civility, thus requiring discipline and domination. In this respect, the majority of scholarship on the white man/Asian boy dyad has focused on the subjectivity of the colonizer. Lim, on the other hand, innovatively suggests that the dyadic encounter is mutually constitutive, where spells are cast in both directions from the East and the West. Lim shifts attention back to the Asian boy, who is typically taken as invisible and ubiquitous, in order to decipher latent legacies of colonialism still extant in queer modernity. * Amerasia *An important contribution to how to read, understand and & see Asia, especially where it concerns underlying power relations that still govern notions of agency, representation and identity. * Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology *This book not only provides a thorough and nuanced analyses of a number of performances and movies, it also generates a new set of language for the discussion of Asian masculinity and queerness in popular culture. * International Journal of Communication *Brown Boys and Rice Queens ought to be required reading for anyone working in theatre and performance studies, Asian and Asian American studies, queer studies, or at any of their complex interfaces: at once historical and theoretical; close and deep in parts of his reading, yet contextualizing and synoptic at others; charmingly playful if also soberly earnest, as he insists on what is both ludic and serious about camp, Lim manages to do what, as his book demonstrates, the most fascinating inhabitants of white man / Native boy dyad likewise accomplish: he casts a spell, and it binds. * Modern Drama *Brown Boys and Rice Queens is an impressive feat that utilizes and challenges tropes in postcolonial studies, inter-Asia cultural studies, ethnic American studies, and theorizations of race and sexuality. Lims nuanced reading exposes their blind spots and extends the theorization of these allied fields in his sophisticated analysis of Asian queer performances. This book is a significant contribution to its major fields of queer studies and performance studies. * Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism *Table of ContentsPreface: The Queer Genesis of a Project Acknowledgments Introduction: Tropic Spells, Performance, and the Native Boy 1. A Colonial Dyad in Balinese Performance 2. The Global Asian Queer Boys of Singapore 3. G.A.P. Drama, or The Gay Asian Princess Goes to the United States Conclusion: Toward a Minor-Native Epistemology in Transcolonial BorderzonesNotesIndex About the Author
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New York University Press The Queerest Art
Book SynopsisFrom Shakespeare''s gender-bending play Twelfth Night to the the critically-acclaimed Broadway hit Angels in America, from 17th century kabuki theater of Japan?performed by cross-dressing prostitutes?to the NEA-denounced performance art of Holly Hughes, theater has long been?as co-editor Alisa Solomon terms it?the queerest art. The Queerest Art is a pioneering collection of essays by and conversations among a diverse range of leading theater academics and artists. The first anthology to bring scholars and makers of queer theater into direct dialogue, the volume explores such subjects as same-sex desire in Restoration comedy, the racialized impact of colonial Shakespeare, the cuerpo politizado of a performance artist in contemporary Los Angeles, and the nitty-gritty of getting a queer show presented in Peoria. The Queerest Art rereads the history of performance as a celebration and critique of dissident sexualities, exploring the politics of pleasureTrade Review"A rich and varied collection, featuring the voices both of academics and theatre practitioners." * American Theatre *"The panel discussions...contributes a warm, witty and deliciously rhetorical piece." * Lambda Book Report *"This stimulating collection of essays critically examines and celebrates what, for centuries, many have deeply feared and many others have known and cherished to be true-that theatre is, indeed, the queerest art. The special ephermerality and perilousness of queer existence on- and offstage make this volume's excellently rendered project of documentation through performance, writing, and publication not only admirable and necessary but urgent." * The Drama Review *"Eclectic array of essays." * Theater Journal *Table of Contents1 Great Sparkles of Lust: Homophobia and the Antitheatrical Tradition 2 The Queer Root of Theater 3 "Porno-Tropics": Some Thoughts on Shakespeare, Colonialism, and Sexuality 4 Setting the Stage behind the Seen: Performing Lesbian History 5 "The Man I Love": The Erotics of Friendship in Restoration Theater 6 "Be True to Yearning": Notes on the Pioneers of Queer Theater 7 From the Invisible to the Ridiculous: The Emergence of an Out Theater Aesthetic 8 Queer Theater and the Disarticulation of Identity 9 Out across America: Playing from P.S. 122 to Peoria 10 "Being" a Lesbian: Apple Island and the Performance of Community 11 "Preaching to the Converted" 12 Queer Theater, Queer Theory: Luis Alfaro's Cuerpo Politizado 13 When We Were Warriors 14 The Kids Stay in the Picture, or, Toward a New Queer Theater 15 Goodnight Irene: An Endnote
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Performing Arts Discovering Careers
Book SynopsisA fun, full-color guide that examines 20 careers in the performing arts for creative individuals.
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University of Arizona Press Stages of Life Transcultural Performance and
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The University of Arizona Press Barrio Dreams Selected Plays Camino del Sol
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University of Minnesota Press New Downtown Now
Book SynopsisBrings together ten works that show the excitement and possibilities of the theater. Characterized by fragmenting structure, hypnotic rhythms, kaleidoscopic imagery, unpredictable characters, and lyrical language, these plays resemble puzzles from which the writers are teasing revelations.Trade Review"These are made-up worlds, but made up out of the junk of the real. Many of these plays betray the American delight in the tinkerer's habit and the outsider's pleasure in the beauty of random arrangement, the accidental, and the discarded. What makes them so powerful is their obsession with truth of perception and precision of expression." - Mac Wellman, from the Preface"
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The University of Alabama Press Theatre and Violence Theatre Symposium 07
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The University of Alabama Press Theatre and Politics in the Twentieth Century 9 Modern Contemporary Poetics
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The University of Alabama Press American Drama in the Age of Film
Book SynopsisExamines the strengths and weaknesses of the dramatic and cinematic arts to confront the standard arguments in the film-versus-theater debate. Using widely known adaptations of ten major plays, Brietzke seeks to highlight the inherent powers of each medium and draw conclusions not just about how they differ, but how they ought to differ as well.Trade Review"In this elegant and long-overdue book, drama and film emerge not as competitors per se but as collaborators who variously borrow and profit from their intertwined histories. At the same time, Zander Brietzke delivers a passionate defense of the theater, a reminder that even and especially in an age of media, theater remains the most live and lively art." - Martin Puchner, author of Stage Fright: Modernism. Anti-Theatricality, and Drama"
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The University of Alabama Press Staging America
Book SynopsisThe Provincetown Players created a revolution in American theatre, making room for truly modern approaches to playwriting, stage production, and performance. Jeffery Kennedy offers readers their unabridged story in a meticulously researched and comprehensive narrative that sheds new light on the history of the Provincetown Players.
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The University of Alabama Press Theatre History Studies 2003 Volume 23
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The University of Alabama Press Theatre History Studies 2004 Volume 24
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University of Alabama Press Theatre and Moral Order 15 Theatre Symposium
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The University of Alabama Press Theatre History Studies v 28
Book SynopsisA journal of theatre history and scholarship published annually since 1981 by the Mid-American Theatre Conference (MATC), a regional body devoted to theatre scholarship and practice. The purpose of the conference is to unite persons and organizations with an interest in theatre and to promote the growth and development of various forms of theatre.Trade ReviewThis established annual is a major contribution to the scholarly analysis and historical documentation of international drama. Refereed, immaculately printed and illustrated... the subject coverage ranges from the London season of 1883 to the influence of David Belasco on Eugene O'Neill. - CHOICE
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The University of Alabama Press Theatre History Studies v 29
Book SynopsisA journal of theatre history and scholarship from the Mid - American Theatre Conference (MATC), a regional body devoted to theatre scholarship and practice. It intends to unite people and organizations in their region with an interest in theatre and to promote the growth and development of different forms of theatre.Trade ReviewThis established annual is a major contribution to the scholarly analysis and historical documentation of international drama. Refereed, immaculately printed and illustrated... the subject coverage ranges from the London season of 1883 to the influence of David Belasco on Eugene O'Neill. - Choice
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The University of Alabama Press Theatre Symposium Outdoor Performance v 17
Book SynopsisOutdoor drama takes many forms: ancient Greek theatre, open-air performances of Shakespeare at summer festivals, and re-enactments of landmark historical events. The essays gathered in Outdoor Performance, volume 17 of the annual journal Theatre Symposium, address outdoor theatre's many manifestations, including the historical and non-traditional.
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The University of Alabama Press Enacting History
Book SynopsisThis is a collection of essays exploring the world of historical performances. The volume focuses on performances outside the traditional sphere of theatre, among them living history museums, battle reenactments, pageants, renaissance festivals, and adventure-tourism destinations.Trade Review“The authors and their fellow contributors should be congratulated for producing a book that is theoretically sophisticated and accessible to a wide range of readers and—owing to its innovative topic—a good deal of fun to read.”—Jason Shaffer, author of Performing Patriotism: National Identity in the Colonial and Revolutionary American Theater
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The University of Alabama Press Theatre History Studies 2011 v 31 Volume 31
Book Synopsis“This established annual is a major contribution to the scholarly analysis and historical documentation of international drama. Refereed, immaculately printed and illustrated . . . . The subject coverage ranges from the London season of 1883 to the influence of David Belasco on Eugene O’Neill.”—CHOICE
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The University of Alabama Press Theatre History Studies 2014 Volume 33 Theatres
Book SynopsisWar and theatre is a subject of increasing popularity among scholars of theatre. The essays in this special edition of Theatre History Studies brings together a unique collection of work by thirteen innovative scholars whose work explores such topics as theatre performances during war times, theatre written and performed to resist war, and theatre that fosters and promotes war.
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The University of Alabama Press The Props the Thing Stage Properties Reconsidered
Book SynopsisThe essays in Theatre Symposium: Volume 18 approach the subject of stage props from many angles, and include examinations of props in contemporary and historical productions, explorations of the cultural significance of specific props, and arguments about the nature of the prop itself. The contributors illuminate many aspects of this largely ignored yet crucial part of the theatre.
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The University of Alabama Press theatresymposium
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The University of Alabama Press Theatre Symposium V 20 Gods and Groundlings Historical Theatrical Audiences
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The University of Alabama Press Theatre Symposium V 21 Ritual Religion and
Book SynopsisVolume 21 of Theatre Symposium presents essays that explore the intricate and vital relationships between theatre, religion, and ritual. Whether or not theatre arose from ritual and/or religion, from prehistory to the present there have been clear and vital connections among the three. Ritual, Religion, and Theatre, volume 21 of the annual journal Theatre Symposium, presents a series of essays that explore the intricate and vital relationships that exist, historically and today, between these various modes of expression and performance. The essays in this volume discuss the stage presence of the spiritual meme; ritual performance and spirituality in The Living Theatre; theatricality, themes, and theology in James Weldon Johnson's God's Trombones; Jordan Harrison's Act a Lady and the ritual of queerness; Gerpla and national identity in Iceland; confession in Hamlet and Measure for Measure; Christian liturgical drama; Muslim theatre and performance; cave rituals and the Brain's Theatre;
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The University of Alabama Press Theatre Symposium Vol 22 Broadway and Beyond Commercial Theatre Considered
Book SynopsisThat theatre is a business remains a truth often ignored by theatre insiders and consumers of the performing arts alike. The essays in Theatre Symposium, Volume 22 explore theatre as a commercial enterprise both historically and as a continuing part of the creation, production, and presentation of contemporary live performance.
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The University of Alabama Press Theatre Symposium Volume 23 Theatre and Youth
Book SynopsisOffers a rich exploration of depictions of youth in works of theatre as well as the role youth play in the creation and performance of drama. The curtain rises with keynote reflections by Suzan Zeder, the distinguished playwright of theatre for youth, and presents eleven original essays about theatre's reflections of youth and the role of young people in making and performing theatre.
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The University of Alabama Press Theatre Symposium Volume 25 CrossCultural
Book SynopsisAddresses the ways that theatre both shapes cross-cultural dialogue and is itself, in turn, shaped by those forces. Globalization may strike many as a phenomenon of our own historical moment, but it is truly as old as civilization: we need only look to the ancient Silk Road linking the Far East to the Mediterranean in order to find some of the earliest recorded impacts of people and goods crossing borders. Yet, in the current cultural moment, tensions are high due to increased migration, economic unpredictability, complicated acts of local and global terror, and heightened political divisions all over the world. Thus globalization seems new and a threat to our ways of life, to our nations, and to our cultures. In what ways have theatre practitioners, educators, and scholars worked to support cross-cultural dialogue historically? And in what ways might theatre embrace the complexities and contradictions inherent in any meaningful exchange? The essays in Theatre Symposium, Volume 25 refl
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The University of Alabama Press Theatre Symposium Volume 26
Book SynopsisOffers a substantive exploration of theatrical costume. Theatre Symposium, Volume 26 analyses the ways in which meaning is conveyed through costuming for the stage and explores the underlying assumptions embedded in theatrical practice and costume production.Table of Contents Introduction by Sarah McCarroll Chapter 1: Plus que Reine: The Napoleonic Revival in Belle Epoque Theatre and Fashion by Michele Majer Chapter 2: Creating a Realistic Rendering Pedagogy: The Fashion Illustration Problem by Caitlin Quinn Chapter 3: Where'd I Put My Character?: The Costume Character Body and Essential Costuming for the Ensemble Actor by Aly Renee Amidei Chapter 4: Embracing the Chaos: Creating Costumes for Devised Work by Kyla Kazuschyk Chapter 5: Dressing the Image: Costumes in Printed Theatrical Advertising by David S. Thompson Chapter 6: Costuming the Audience: Gentility, Consumption, and the Lady’s Theatre Hat in Gilded Age America by Leah Lowe Chapter 7: The RuPaul Effect: The Exploration of the Costuming Rituals of Drag Culture in Social Media and the Theatrical Performativity of the Male Body in the Ambit of the Everyday by Jorge Sandoval Chapter 8: A Brand New Day on Broadway: The Genius of Geoffrey Holder’s Artistry and His Intentional Evocation of the African Diaspora by Gregory S. Carr Chapter 9: “On the [Historical] Sublime”: J. R. Planché’s King John and the Romantic Ideal of the Past by Andrew Gibb Contributors
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The University of Alabama Press Theatre Symposium Volume 27 Theatre and
Book SynopsisA substantive exploration of bodies and embodiment in theatre. Theatre is inescapably about bodies. The essays in Theatre Symposium, Volume 27 explore a broad range of issues related to embodiment.Table of Contents Introduction by Sarah McCarroll Theatre and Embodiment by Rhonda Blair Bodies of Theology: Racine's Esther and Athalie as Embodied Theology by Timothy Pyles Mike Kelly's Performance of Success and Failure on the Field and on the Stage by Travis Stern Miss Julie via Manda Björling, 1906-1912: Embodiment, Conceptual Blending, and Reception by Lawrence D. Smith Hidden Damage: When Uninformed Casting and Actor Training Disregard the Effect of Character Embodiment on Students of Color by Kaja Amado Dunn Ecologies of Experience: John Dewey, Distributed Cognition, and the Cultural-Cognitive Ecosystem of Theatre-Training Settings by Cohen Ambrose Embodying the Ever-Present Past: The Integration of Tuskegee High School by Tessa W. Carr From Tuxedo to Gown: Dietrich’s Haunted Dressing Room(s) by Bridget Sundin Contributors
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The University of Alabama Press Theatre Symposium Volume 31
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The University of Alabama Press Theatre History Studies 2015 Volume 34
Book SynopsisRevisits the foundations of theatre, explores the boundaries and definitions of theatre, and illuminates how writing about the history of theatre is itself a form of historiography. The five essays are arranged chronologically. This fascinating collection is rounded out by an expanded selection of insightful reviews of recent literature in the area.
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The University of Alabama Press Theatre History Studies 2016 Volume 35
Book SynopsisEssays in part one of this volume address theatrical production in very specific historical contexts, among them German theatre from the rubble of Berlin and German nationalist mass spectacles. Essays in part two are devoted to the theme of Rethinking the Maternal in contemporary and historical theatre.Trade ReviewPraise for Theatre History Studies “This established annual is a major contribution to the scholarly analysis and historical documentation of international drama. Refereed, immaculately printed and illustrated. . . . The subject coverage ranges from the London season of 1883 to the influence of David Belasco on Eugene O’Neill.” —CHOICE“International in scope but with an emphasis on American, British, and Continental theater, this fine academic journal includes seven to nine scholarly articles dealing with everything from Filipino theater during the Japanese occupation to numerous articles on Shakespearean production to American children’s theater. . . . An excellent addition for academic, university, and large public libraries.”—Magazines for Libraries, 6th edition
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The University of Alabama Press Theatre History Studies 2017 Volume 36
Book SynopsisA peer-reviewed journal of theatre history and scholarship published annually since 1981 by the Mid-American Theatre Conference. Theatre History Studies is devoted to research in all areas of theatre studies, with special interest in archival research, historical documentation, and historiography.
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The University of Alabama Press Theatre History Studies 2018 Volume 37
Book SynopsisA peer-reviewed journal of theatre history and scholarship published annually since 1981 by the Mid-America Theatre Conference.Table of Contents Meyerhold and The Revolution: A Reading through Henri Lefebvre’s Theories on “Everyday Life” — Stefan Aquilina “Shuffled Together under the Name of a Farce”: Finding Nature in Aphra Behn’s The Emperor of the Moon — Vivian Appler Kate Soffel’s Life of Crime: A Gendered Journey from Warden’s Wife to Criminal Actress — Kristi Good Staging Ajax’s Suicide: A Historiography — Peter A. Campbell Rousing Experiences: Theatre, Politics, and Change — Brian E. G. Cook Until You See the Whites of Their Eyes: Brett Bailey’s Exhibit B and the Consequences of Staging the Colonial Gaze — Megan Lewis Taking the Theatre to the People: Performance Sponsorship and Regulation in Mussolini’s Italy — Patricia Gaborik To Image and to Imagine: Walid Raad, Rabih Mouré, and the Arab Spring — Ilinca Todorut And Anthony Sorge Where Has the Political Theatre in Israel Gone? Rethinking the Concept of Political Theatre Today — Shulamith Lev-Aladgem “Equal Rights By All Means!”: Beatrice Forbes-Robertson’s 1910 Suffrage Matinee and the Onstage Junction of the US And UK Franchise Movements — Christine Woodworth “Why I Wrote the Phyllis Wheatley Pageant-Play”: Mary Church Terrell’s Bicentennial Activism — Lurana Donnels O’Malley The Lasting Theatre of Dario Fo and Franca Rame — Juliet Guzzetta Chavez Ravine: Culture Clash and the Political Project of Rewriting History — Ashley E. Lucas The Heavy Lifting: Resisting the Obama Presidency’s Neoliberalist Conceptions of the American Dream in Kristoffer Diaz’s The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity — Noe Montez
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The University of Alabama Press Theatre History Studies 2019 Volume 38
Book SynopsisA peer-reviewed journal of theatre history and scholarship published annually since 1981 by the Mid-American Theatre Conference. Theatre History Studies is devoted to research in all areas of theatre studies, with special interest in archival research, historical documentation, and historiography.
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The University of Alabama Press Theatre History Studies 2020 Volume 39
Book SynopsisA peer-reviewed journal of theatre history and scholarship published annually since 1981 by the Mid-American Theatre Conference. Theatre History Studies is devoted to research in all areas of theatre studies, with special interest in archival research, historical documentation, and historiography.
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The University of Alabama Press Theatre History Studies 2022 Volume 41
Book SynopsisPublished annually since 1981, Theatre History Studies provides critical, analytical, and descriptive essays on all aspects of theatre history and is devoted to disseminating the highest quality peer-review scholarship in the field.
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Univ of Chicago Behalf of Univ of Alabama Theatre History Studies 2024 Vol 43
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MJ - Ohio University Press Teaching Shakespeare into the TwentyFirst Century
Book SynopsisShakespeare is a central shaping and defining figure in our culture. His plays are being taught, filmed, and performed every day in many places and in most of the world’s languages.
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Ohio University Press Coal and Culture
Book SynopsisOpera houses were fixtures of Appalachian life from the end of the Civil War through the 1920s. The only book on opera houses that stresses their cultural context, Condee’s unique study will interest cultural geographers, scholars of Appalachian studies, and all those who appreciate the gaudy diversity of the American scene.Trade Review“A unique combination of entertainment history and Appalachian history…. Condee demonstrates that the region was not as isolated as often thought and that opera houses increased the region’s exposure to various cultural aspects.” * H-Appalachia *“One of the most valuable aspects of Condee’s book is the emphasis on the development of the coal industry in Appalachia, the growth in population and diversity, and especially how internal colonialism led to the development of the opera houses.”“What makes this study of value and also unique is Condee’s approach to the topic. It is a useful analysis of the opera house as a reflector and location of local culture in far more ways than traditional performance. A real attraction is the plentiful illustrations.” * editor of Cambridge Studies in American Theatre & Drama and The Cambridge Guide to American Theatre (2nd ed.) *
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Duke University Press Bronislava Nijinska
Book SynopsisThe definitive source of firsthand information on the early life of the great Vaslav Nijinsky (1889-1950)Trade Review"Early Memoirs . . . is a book that not only paints a detailed canvas of ballet in turn-of-the-century Russia, but does so with an attention to fact and an appreciation of artistic issues that reflect the same analytical intelligence that Nijinska revealed in her own choreography."—Lynn Garafola, author of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes
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Duke University Press Imitations of Life
Book SynopsisUses the under-studied genre of melodrama as a critical prism for understanding Russian/Soviet history, politics and culture - in particular, the uses to which popular culture was put in the Soviet period.Trade Review“Melodrama bore all the defects and virtues of its parent, the French Revolution. Given to wild flights, neck-breaking twists and turns, stark judgements of good and evil, the genre also brought public attention onto private life and the vicissitudes of underprivilege. Melodrama taught much to the Russians who appropriated it. As the contributors to the present volume demonstrate, it taught them how to see, to understand and even how to accomplish history. An imitator surely, but also a creator of life—we can all be grateful to Neuberger and McReynolds for bringing this to our attention.”—James von Geldern, Macalaster CollegeTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction / Louise McReynolds and Joan Neuberger The Misanthrope, the Orphan, and the Magpie: Imported Melodrama in the Twilight of Serfdom / Richard Stites Melodramatizing Russia: Nineteenth-Century Views from the West / Julie A. Buckler The Importance of Being Unhappy, or, Why She Died / Beth Holmgren Melodrama as Counterliterature? Count Amori’s Response to Three Scandalous Novels / Otto Boele Home Was Never Where the Heart Was: Domestic Dystopias in Russia’s Silent Movie Melodramas / Louise McReynolds Alcohol is Our Enemy! Soviet Temperance Melodramas of the 1920s / Julie A. Cassiday Melodrama and the Myth of the Soviet Union / Lars T. Lih Soviet Family Melodrama of the 1940s and 1950s: From Wait for Me to The Cranes Are Flying / Alexander Prokhorov Conventional Melodrama, Innovative Theater, and a Melodramatic Society: Pavel Kohout’s Such a Love at the Moscow University Student Theater / Susan Constanzo Between Public and Private: Revolution and Melodrama in Nikita Mikhalkov’s Slave of Love / Joan Neuberger Playing Dead: The Operatics of Celebrity Funerals, or, The Ultimate Silent Part / Helena Goscilo Suggested Reading Contributors Index
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Duke University Press Trumpets in the Mountains
Book SynopsisAn ethnography exploring how the meaning of cubanía, or Cubanness, is generated in interactions between the state, ordinary Cubans, intellectuals, and artists and other cultural workers.Trade Review"Trumpets in the Mountains is a journey into the rural heartland of Cuba, where few foreigners dare to go . . . and that includes Cubans who've never ventured beyond the city of Havana. Here is a portrait of a Cuba that has escaped the notice of the media, a world where theater people go to country towns and villages to engage in performative dialogues with farm workers about the meaning of the revolution. Drawing on years of fieldwork and personal participation in popular theater, Laurie A. Frederik shows how artistic creativity flourishes in everyday Cuban life in some of the most out-of-the-way places, and offers rich ethnographic examples of how theater has become the perfect stage for acting out the hopes that Cubans still have of building a more just world. Written with sincere affection, this is one of those rare books that gives back to Cuba."—Ruth Behar, author of An Island Called Home: Returning to Jewish Cuba"Engagingly written, theoretically astute, and based on extensive ethnographic work, Laurie A. Frederik's new book provides important insights into underexplored aspects of Cuban revolutionary culture. She considers the dynamics of socially engaged theater from the perspective of actors and audiences themselves and explores debates over national identity and the goals of the revolutionary project as negotiated far from the centers of state control. An important contribution."—Robin Moore, author of Music in the Hispanic Caribbean: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture“The book gives valuable insights into the complexities of making art under less than ideal conditions, depicts the rivalries and artistic differences between urban and rural theatre practitioners in Cuba, and draws a sharp picture of life in a country where economic uncertainty and continuing demands of the state on its citizens serve to complicate the process of theatre-making in ways undreamt of by artists in the west.” -- Kate Eaton * New Theatre Quarterly *“Providing insight into Cuban life beyond the cities, Trumpets in the Mountains is a compelling book. Frederik’s work has deservedly received kudos for overcoming the many obstacles (logistical, cultural, political) that hinder participant observation in rural areas of Cuba.” -- Cristina Pertierra * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *“A delightful read with brilliant and sometimes striking ethnographic details, and is highly recommended for those interested in art, cultural politics, national identity, and rural ethnography not only of Cuba, but of Latin America in general. Frederik’s work could be used as a whole in senior seminars and graduate courses, or by chapter for lower division classes in the social sciences, performance studies, and Latin American studies.” -- Maki Tanaka * Journal of Latin American Geography *“The book is written with verve and is a must read for anyone interested in the role art in general, and the theater in particular, plays on Cuba’s on-going political experiment with socialism.” -- Martin Holbraad * Journal of Anthropological Research *“Frederik’s interdisciplinary analysis of shifting Cuban identity is an essential text for advanced students and scholars of Latin American socio-political history. With this ethnography Frederik succeeds in her attempt to tear down disciplinary divides. The contribution of Trumpets in the Mountains is not limited to the disciplines of anthropology, theater, and performance studies; but rather it is relevant to all disciplines concerned with the construction of collective identity and the delicate relationships between art, power, and cultural authority.” -- Jessica Evans * Journal of Folklore Research *"Frederik is a storyteller. This book is an eloquent performative rendering of her experiences of observing, interviewing, and reflecting on over a decade of theatre practice in Cuba . . . [T]he author has taken great care to transform the work into a compelling read." -- Rea Dennis * Studies on Theater and Performance *"With relevance that extends from anthropology to performance studies and beyond, Trumpets in the Mountains represents a significantcontribution to the understanding of the society, politics and cultural production of Cuba and Latin America." -- Vera Coleman * AmeriQuests *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Prologue: The Red Blood of Cuban Identity xix Introduction: More than Just Scenery 1 1. Revolution and Revolutionary Performance or, what happens when el negrito, la mulata, and el gallego meet el Hombre Nuevo 41 2. Artists in the Special Period, Option Zero, and the Hombre Novísimo or, the heroic rescue of Liborio and Elpidio Valdés 76 3. Creative Process and Play-Making in Cumanayagua or, waiting for Atilio on the side of a country road 111 4. The Inundation of Siguanea and Cuba or, the near drowning and rescue of Cuba's Godot 142 5. Cultural Crusades and the Unsung Artists of Guantánamo or, how Don Quixote Saves humble Harriero from the devil 175 6. Storytellers and the Story Told: Voices and Visions in the Zones of Silence or, who wins the wager if the cockfight ends in a draw 218 7. Dramatic Irony and Janus-Faced Nationalism or, the triumphant stage return of el negrito and mister Smith 259 Notes 279 Glossary 291 Sources Cited 297 Index 325
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Duke University Press Black Performance Theory
Book SynopsisBlack performance theory is a rich interdisciplinary area of study and critical method. In this collection of new essays, some of its pioneering thinkers demonstrate the breadth and depth, innovation, and critical value of black performance theory.Trade Review“With this compelling volume, DeFrantz and Gonzalez provide less a settled corpus of methodologies applied to a canon of academically sanctioned performance genres than an articulation and elaboration of black corporealities, vocalities, and ‘sensibilities’ across a heterogeneous field of performative enunciations--’high’ and pop culture, geographically dispersed and diasporic. . . . This promises to become a key work. Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals.” -- R. Remshardt * Choice *"This is theory that dances. [...] Black Performance Theory convenes 14 scholars and practitioners of Africana performance and bids them dance and groove across national, hemispheric, oceanic, planetary, disciplinary, epochal, formal, and methodological boundaries in pursuit of blackness in motion." -- La Marr Jurelle Bruce * TDR: The Drama Review *Table of ContentsForeword / D. Soyini Madison Acknowledgments Introduction. From "Negro Experiment" to "Black Performance" / Thomas F. DeFrantz and Anita Gonzalez Part I: Transporting Black 1. Navigations: Diasporic Transports and Landings / Anita Gonzalez 2. Diasporic Spidering: Constructing Contemporary Black Identities / Nadine George-Graves 3. Twenty-First-Century Post-Humans: The Rose of the See-J / Hershini Bhana Young 4. Hip Work: Undoing the Tragic Mulata / Melissa Blanco Borelli Part II: Black-En-Scene 5. Black-Authored Lynching Drama's Challenge to Theater History / Koritha Mitchell 6. Reading "Spirit" and the Dancing Body in the Choreography of Ronald K. Brown and Reggie Wilson / Carl Paris 7. Uncovered: A Pageant of Hip Hop Masters / Rickerby Hinds Part III: Black Imaginary 8. Black Movements: Flying Africans in Spaceships / Soyica Diggs Colbert 9. Post-logical Notes on Self-Election / Wendy S. Walters 10: Cityscaped: Ethnospheres / Anna B. Scott Part IV: Hi-Fidelity Black 11. "Rip It Up": Excess and Ecstasy in Little Richard's Sound / Tavia Nyong'o 12. Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough: Presence, Spectacle, and Good Feeling in Michael Jackson's This Is It / Jason King 13. Afro-sonic Feminist Praxis: Nina Simone and Adrienne Kennedy in High Fidelity / Daphne A. Brooks 14. Hip-Hop Habitus V.2.0 / Thomas F. DeFrantz Bibliography Contributors Index
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Duke University Press Black Performance Theory
Book SynopsisBlack performance theory is a rich interdisciplinary area of study and critical method. In this collection of new essays, some of its pioneering thinkers demonstrate the breadth and depth, innovation, and critical value of black performance theory.Trade Review“With this compelling volume, DeFrantz and Gonzalez provide less a settled corpus of methodologies applied to a canon of academically sanctioned performance genres than an articulation and elaboration of black corporealities, vocalities, and ‘sensibilities’ across a heterogeneous field of performative enunciations--’high’ and pop culture, geographically dispersed and diasporic. . . . This promises to become a key work. Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals.” -- R. Remshardt * Choice *"This is theory that dances. [...] Black Performance Theory convenes 14 scholars and practitioners of Africana performance and bids them dance and groove across national, hemispheric, oceanic, planetary, disciplinary, epochal, formal, and methodological boundaries in pursuit of blackness in motion." -- La Marr Jurelle Bruce * TDR: The Drama Review *Table of ContentsForeword / D. Soyini Madison Acknowledgments Introduction. From "Negro Experiment" to "Black Performance" / Thomas F. DeFrantz and Anita Gonzalez Part I: Transporting Black 1. Navigations: Diasporic Transports and Landings / Anita Gonzalez 2. Diasporic Spidering: Constructing Contemporary Black Identities / Nadine George-Graves 3. Twenty-First-Century Post-Humans: The Rose of the See-J / Hershini Bhana Young 4. Hip Work: Undoing the Tragic Mulata / Melissa Blanco Borelli Part II: Black-En-Scene 5. Black-Authored Lynching Drama's Challenge to Theater History / Koritha Mitchell 6. Reading "Spirit" and the Dancing Body in the Choreography of Ronald K. Brown and Reggie Wilson / Carl Paris 7. Uncovered: A Pageant of Hip Hop Masters / Rickerby Hinds Part III: Black Imaginary 8. Black Movements: Flying Africans in Spaceships / Soyica Diggs Colbert 9. Post-logical Notes on Self-Election / Wendy S. Walters 10: Cityscaped: Ethnospheres / Anna B. Scott Part IV: Hi-Fidelity Black 11. "Rip It Up": Excess and Ecstasy in Little Richard's Sound / Tavia Nyong'o 12. Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough: Presence, Spectacle, and Good Feeling in Michael Jackson's This Is It / Jason King 13. Afro-sonic Feminist Praxis: Nina Simone and Adrienne Kennedy in High Fidelity / Daphne A. Brooks 14. Hip-Hop Habitus V.2.0 / Thomas F. DeFrantz Bibliography Contributors Index
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University of Pittsburgh Press Pittsburgh in Stages
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University of Pittsburgh Press Staging Buenos Aires
Book SynopsisStaging Buenos Aires centers theater as a source of historical inquiry to understand how nonelites experienced and shaped a city undergoing dramatic transformations. Commercial theater constituted the core of the city's public sphere, one in which middle-class playwrights and audiences assumed the leading role. Audiences and critics often disagreed about what was acceptable entertainment. Playwrights used theater to promote their own ideas of sociopolitical change, creating a space for working- and middle-class audiences to identify and push back against imposed regulations and attitudes. Cultural production on the city's stages revealed fissures and social anxieties about the expansion of the political system and of the public sphere as women became increasingly visible in urban spaces. At the same time, theater also gave structure and meaning to these rapid changes, providing the space for the city's playwrights and complex publics to play a key role in identifying, processing, and s
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