Author: Hallie FlanaganPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Shifting Scenes of the Modern European Theatre
Author: Hallie FlanaganPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
On the Performance Front
Author: C. CanningPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137543302
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
This book argues that US theatre in the 20th century embraced the theories and practices of internationalism as a way to realize a better world and as part of the strategic reform of the theatre into a national expression. Live performance, theatre internationalists argued, could represent and reflect the nation like no other endeavour.
The Arts
Author: Modern Drama in Theory and Practice: Volume 1, Realism and Naturalism
Author: J. L. StyanPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521296281
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
This 1981 volume begins with the French revolt against naturalism in theatre and then covers the European realist movement.
Americans Experience Russia
Author: Choi ChatterjeePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0415893410
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Americans Experience Russia analyzes how American scholars, journalists, and artists experienced and interpreted Russia/the Soviet Union over the last century. It critically engages with postcolonial theories which posit that a self-valorizing, unmediated west dictated the colonial encounter. In examining the fiction, film, journalism, treatises, and histories Americans produced out of their 'Russian experience, ' this volume closely analyzes these texts, locates them in their sociopolitical context, and gauges how their producers' profession, politics, gender, class, and interaction with native Russian interpreters conditioned their authored responses to Russian/Soviet reality.
The Playbook
Author: James ShapiroPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593490207
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
A brilliant and daring account of a culture war over the place of theater in American democracy in the 1930s, one that anticipates our current divide, by the acclaimed Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro From 1935 to 1939, the Federal Theatre Project staged over a thousand productions in 29 states that were seen by thirty million (or nearly one in four) Americans, two thirds of whom had never seen a play before. At its helm was an unassuming theater professor, Hallie Flanagan. It employed, at its peak, over twelve thousand struggling artists, some of whom, like Orson Welles and Arthur Miller, would soon be famous, but most of whom were just ordinary people eager to work again at their craft. It was the product of a moment when the arts, no less than industry and agriculture, were thought to be vital to the health of the republic, bringing Shakespeare to the public, alongside modern plays that confronted the pressing issues of the day—from slum housing and public health to racism and the rising threat of fascism. The Playbook takes us through some of its most remarkable productions, including a groundbreaking Black production of Macbeth in Harlem and an adaptation of Sinclair Lewis’s anti-fascist novel It Can’t Happen Here that opened simultaneously in 18 cities, underscoring the Federal Theatre’s incredible range and vitality. But this once thriving Works Progress Administration relief program did not survive and has left little trace. For the Federal Theatre was the first New Deal project to be attacked and ended on the grounds that it promoted “un-American” activity, sowing the seeds not only for the McCarthyism of the 1950s but also for our own era of merciless polarization. It was targeted by the first House un-American Affairs Committee, and its demise was a turning point in American cultural life—for, as Shapiro brilliantly argues, “the health of democracy and theater, twin born in ancient Greece, have always been mutually dependent.” A defining legacy of this culture war was how the strategies used to undermine and ultimately destroy the Federal Theatre were assembled by a charismatic and cunning congressman from East Texas, the now largely forgotten Martin Dies, who in doing so pioneered the right-wing political playbook now so prevalent that it seems eternal.
Historical Female Management Theorists
Author: Kristin S. WilliamsPublisher: Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN: 1801173923
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Emerging research interrogates the role of management history in the neglect of women and their accomplishments – Williams builds expertly on this research, bridging feminist theory and critical historiography. Historical Female Management Theorists is essential reading for both feminist scholars and management historians.
Plays by American Women, 1930-1960
Author: Judith E. BarlowPublisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9781557834461
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Offers a collection of classic plays by such women writers as Lillian Hellman, Gertrude Stein, Alice Childress, and Clare Boothe.
Sean O’Casey: A Bibliography of Criticism
Author: E.H. MikhailPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349013307
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2754
Book Description