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Recovers the life and art of Bradford Ropes, author of 42nd Street and chronicler of gay lives in early show business

Table of Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • INTRODUCTION
  • The Enduring Myth of 42nd Street and the “Forgotten Melody” of Bradford Ropes
  • INTERLUDE
  • The Stories of Ropes’s Backstage Trilogy
  • ONE
  • Peering Back at “Proper Boston”
  • TWO
  • Drag Reveals and “Strange Interludes”:
  • Billy Bradford’s Dances on Broadway
  • THREE
  • “This is Not a Book to Give to a Maiden Aunt”:
  • The Influence of Backstage Novels and “Pansy Craze” Novels
  • FOUR
  • “Light-Hearted and Damned”:
  • Anti-Gay Discrimination and Camp Defiance in Ropes’s Backstage Novels
  • FIVE
  • “Your Blood Responds More Eagerly to the Lure of the Theatre”:
  • The Backstage Trilogy, the Puritan Ethos, and the Myth of “The Show Must Go On”
  • SIX
  • Bringing Back Bradford Ropes
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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      Publisher: LUP - University of Michigan Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 1/16/2024 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780472056576, 978-0472056576
      ISBN10: 0472056573

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Recovers the life and art of Bradford Ropes, author of 42nd Street and chronicler of gay lives in early show business

      Table of Contents
      • List of Figures
      • Acknowledgments
      • INTRODUCTION
      • The Enduring Myth of 42nd Street and the “Forgotten Melody” of Bradford Ropes
      • INTERLUDE
      • The Stories of Ropes’s Backstage Trilogy
      • ONE
      • Peering Back at “Proper Boston”
      • TWO
      • Drag Reveals and “Strange Interludes”:
      • Billy Bradford’s Dances on Broadway
      • THREE
      • “This is Not a Book to Give to a Maiden Aunt”:
      • The Influence of Backstage Novels and “Pansy Craze” Novels
      • FOUR
      • “Light-Hearted and Damned”:
      • Anti-Gay Discrimination and Camp Defiance in Ropes’s Backstage Novels
      • FIVE
      • “Your Blood Responds More Eagerly to the Lure of the Theatre”:
      • The Backstage Trilogy, the Puritan Ethos, and the Myth of “The Show Must Go On”
      • SIX
      • Bringing Back Bradford Ropes
      • Notes
      • Bibliography
      • Index

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