Author: Arthur ArentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Living newspaper
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Triple-A Plowed Under
Author: Arthur ArentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Living newspaper
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Triple-A Plowed Under
Author: Federal Theatre Project (U.S.). National Service BureauPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Plowed Under
Author: Ann Folino WhitePublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253015383
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
A study of Depression-era anger at food waste: “An invaluable contribution to history, theater history, cultural studies, American studies, and other fields.” —Journal of American History During the Great Depression, with thousands on bread lines, farmers were instructed by the New Deal Agricultural Adjustment Act to produce less food in order to stabilize food prices and restore the market economy. Fruit was left to rot on trees, crops were plowed under, and millions of piglets and sows were slaughtered and discarded. Many Americans saw the government action as a senseless waste of food that left the hungry to starve, initiating public protests against food and farm policy. Ann F. White approaches these events as performances where competing notions of morality and citizenship were acted out, often along lines marked by class, race, and gender. The actions range from the “Milk War” that pitted National Guardsmen against dairymen who were dumping milk, to the meat boycott staged by Polish-American women in Michigan, and from the black sharecroppers’ protest to restore agricultural jobs in Missouri to the protest theater of the Federal Theater Project. White provides a riveting account of the theatrical strategies used by consumers, farmers, agricultural laborers, and the federal government to negotiate competing rights to food and the moral contradictions of capitalist society in times of economic crisis.
Triple-A plowed under, by the staff of the Living newspaper. Power, a living newspaper, by Arthur Arent. Spirochete, a history, by Arnold Sundgaard
Author: Federal Theatre Project (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages :
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Triple-A Plowed Under - Power - Spirochete
Author: Triple-A Plowed Under
Author: Federal Theatre Plays
Author: Federal Theatre ProjectPublisher:
ISBN: 9780598514578
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Investigation of Un-American Propaganda Activities in the United States
Author: United States. Congress. House. Special Committee on Un-American Activities (1938-1944)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 1308
Book Description
Modern Drama in Theory and Practice: Volume 3, Expressionism and Epic Theatre
Author: J. L. StyanPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521296304
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Modern drama in theory and ... /J.L. Styan.-v.3.
Earth Matters on Stage
Author: Theresa J. MayPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000069982
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
Earth Matters on Stage: Ecology and Environment in American Theater tells the story of how American theater has shaped popular understandings of the environment throughout the twentieth century as it argues for theater’s potential power in the age of climate change. Using cultural and environmental history, seven chapters interrogate key moments in American theater and American environmentalism over the course of the twentieth century in the United States. It focuses, in particular, on how drama has represented environmental injustice and how inequality has become part of the American environmental landscape. As the first book-length ecocritical study of American theater, Earth Matters examines both familiar dramas and lesser-known grassroots plays in an effort to show that theater can be a powerful force for social change from frontier drama of the late nineteenth century to the eco-theater movement. This book argues that theater has always and already been part of the history of environmental ideas and action in the United States. Earth Matters also maps the rise of an ecocritical thought and eco-theater practice – what the author calls ecodramaturgy – showing how theater has informed environmental perceptions and policies. Through key plays and productions, it identifies strategies for artists who want their work to contribute to cultural transformation in the face of climate change.