Author: Thomas Edward DenneryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
Social Reform and the American Theater, 1880-1920
Author: Thomas Edward DenneryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
Social Reform and the American Theater, 1880-1920
Author: Thomas Edward DenneryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
Spectacles of Reform
Author: Amy E. HughesPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472118625
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
In the nineteenth century, long before film and television brought us explosions, car chases, and narrow escapes, it was America's theaters that thrilled audiences, with “sensation scenes” of speeding trains, burning buildings, and endangered bodies, often in melodramas extolling the virtues of temperance, abolition, and women's suffrage. Amy E. Hughes scrutinizes these peculiar intersections of spectacle and reform, revealing the crucial role that spectacle has played in American activism and how it has remained central to the dramaturgy of reform. Hughes traces the cultural history of three famous sensation scenes—the drunkard with the delirium tremens, the fugitive slave escaping over a river, and the victim tied to the railroad tracks—assessing how these scenes conveyed, allayed, and denied concerns about the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. These images also appeared in printed propaganda, suggesting that the coup de théâtre was an essential part of American reform culture. Additionally, Hughes argues that today’s producers and advertisers continue to exploit the affective dynamism of spectacle, reaching an even broader audience through film, television, and the Internet. To be attuned to the dynamics of spectacle, Hughes argues, is to understand how we see. Her book will interest not only theater historians, but also scholars and students of political, literary, and visual culture who are curious about how U.S. citizens saw themselves and their world during a pivotal period in American history.
Theatre, Culture and Temperance Reform in Nineteenth-Century America
Author: John W. FrickPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521817781
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
This book examines the role of temperance drama in American theatre and compares the American genre to its British counterpart.
Composing Ourselves
Author: Dorothy ChanskyPublisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809326495
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
When movies replaced theater in the early twentieth century, live drama was wide open to reform. A rebellion against commercialism, called the Little Theatre movement, promoted the notion that theatre is a valuable form of self-expression. Composing Ourselves argues that the movement was a national phenomenon that resulted in lasting ideas for serious theatre that are now ordinary parts of the American cultural landscape.
Women's Contribution to Nineteenth-century American Theatre
Author: Miriam López RodríguezPublisher: Universitat de València
ISBN: 8437085543
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
Aquesta col·lecció d'assajos mostra els múltiples aspectes de la contribució que va fer la dona, al teatre americà del segle XIX. En aquest estudi s'ensenyen diversos tipus de dones i els rols que ocupen, així com reflecteix la manera que Susan Glaspell i Sophie Treadwell van ajudar a donar forma al teatre, entre moltes altres que escriurien dècades més tard.
Social Reform and Reaction in America
Author: Liberating Hollywood
Author: Maya Montañez SmuklerPublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813587492
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Winner of the 2018 Richard Wall Memorial Award from the Theater Library Association Liberating Hollywood examines the professional experiences and creative output of women filmmakers during a unique moment in history when the social justice movements that defined the 1960s and 1970s challenged the enduring culture of sexism and racism in the U.S. film industry. Throughout the 1970s feminist reform efforts resulted in a noticeable rise in the number of women directors, yet at the same time the institutionalized sexism of Hollywood continued to create obstacles to closing the gender gap. Maya Montañez Smukler reveals that during this era there were an estimated sixteen women making independent and studio films: Penny Allen, Karen Arthur, Anne Bancroft, Joan Darling, Lee Grant, Barbara Loden, Elaine May, Barbara Peeters, Joan Rivers, Stephanie Rothman, Beverly Sebastian, Joan Micklin Silver, Joan Tewkesbury, Jane Wagner, Nancy Walker, and Claudia Weill. Drawing on interviews conducted by the author, Liberating Hollywood is the first study of women directors within the intersection of second wave feminism, civil rights legislation, and Hollywood to investigate the remarkable careers of these filmmakers during one of the most mythologized periods in American film history.
The Cambridge Guide to American Theatre
Author: Don B. WilmethPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521835380
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 13
Book Description
New and updated encyclopedic guide to American theatre, from its earliest history to the present.
Reimagining American Theatre
Author: Robert BrusteinPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0809080583
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Wide-ranging, discerning essays and reviews in which Mr. Brustein finds that the theatre has been quietly reinventing the nature of its art.