Author: Paul McPharlinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Puppet theater
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
The Puppet Theatre in America
Author: Paul McPharlinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Puppet theater
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
The Puppet Theatre in America
Author: Paul McPharlinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Puppet theater
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
The Puppet Theatre in America: A History: 1524 to Now With a List of Puppeteers 1524-1948
Author: Paul McPharlinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Puppet theater
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
The Puppet Theatre in America
Author: Paul McPharlinPublisher: Boston : Plays, Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Puppet plays
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
The puppet theatre in America
Author: Paul McPharlinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Puppet plays, American
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
The Puppet Theatre in America: a History, 1524-1948
Author: Paul McPharlinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Puppet theater
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
The Puppet Theater in America
Author: Paul Mac PharlinPaul McPharlin and the Puppet Theater
Author: Ryan HowardPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786424338
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Paul McPharlin is one of the 20th century's most important contributors to the art of puppetry. Over a period of nine years he created some 20 productions with marionettes, rod puppets, hand puppets and shadow figures. He was also a prolific writer whose technical, theoretical and historical works contributed significantly to a puppetry revival. His book The Puppet Theatre in America is considered the definitive history of American puppetry. Though shy and aloof, McPharlin was also energetic. He had an ability to bring people together and used this knack to found a national puppetry organization, Puppeteers of America. Besides the author's extensive research on McPharlin and puppetry, the book draws on significant contributions from McPharlin's wife, puppeteer and author Marjorie Batchelder McPharlin, who allowed the use of her 18-year correspondence with Paul in the creation of the book. Chapters take the reader through McPharlin's childhood as a loner in Detroit, his maturation and education in New York, and his early, erratic and often unsuccessful attempts at making a living. His puppeteering years, 1929 to 1937, are detailed, as are the later years that saw him first working for the WPA and then being drafted into the army to serve in World War II at age 38. He continued making important contributions to the art of puppetry until a brain tumor took his life at age 45 in 1948. Appendices present two of McPharlin's plays, The Barn at Bethlehem: A Christmas Play and Punch's Circus. Another appendix details puppetry imprints, including yearbooks, plays, handbooks, worksheets and books. A fourth lists Paul McPharlin's Puppeteers, members of the Marionette Fellowship of Detroit.
The Puppet Theatre in America
Author: Paul McPharlinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Puppet theater
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
Punch and Judy in 19th Century America
Author: Ryan HowardPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476601542
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
The hand-puppet play starring the characters Punch and Judy was introduced from England and became extremely popular in the United States in the 1800s. This book details information on nearly 350 American Punch players. It explores the significance of the 19th-century American show as a reflection of the attitudes and conditions of its time and place. The century was a time of changing feelings about what it means to be human. There was an intensified awareness of the racial, cultural, social and economical diversity of the human species, and a corresponding concern for the experience of human oneness. The American Punch and Judy show was one of the manifestations of these conditions.