Author: Federal Theatre Project (U.S.). National Service BureauPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
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.
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 : 732
Book Description
Modern American Drama: Playwriting in the 1930s
Author: Anne FletcherPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350153591
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
The Decades of Modern American Drama series provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1930s to 2009 in eight volumes. Each volume equips readers with a detailed understanding of the context from which work emerged: an introduction considers life in the decade with a focus on domestic life and conditions, social changes, culture, media, technology, industry and political events; while a chapter on the theatre of the decade offers a wide-ranging and thorough survey of theatres, companies, dramatists, new movements and developments in response to the economic and political conditions of the day. The work of the four most prominent playwrights from the decade receives in-depth analysis and re-evaluation by a team of experts, together with commentary on their subsequent work and legacy. A final section brings together original documents such as interviews with the playwrights and with directors, drafts of play scenes, and other previously unpublished material. The major playwrights and their works to receive in-depth coverage in this volume include: * Clifford Odets: Waiting for Lefty (1935), Awake and Sing! (1935) and Golden Boy (1937); * Lillian Hellman: The Children's Hour (1934), The Little Foxes (1939), and Days to Come (1936); * Langston Hughes: Mulatto (1935), Mule Bone (1930, with Zora Neale Hurston) and Little Ham (1936); * Gertrude Stein: Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights (1938), Four Saints in Three Acts (written in 1927, published in 1932) and Listen to Me (1936).
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.
New York Modern
Author: William B. ScottPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801867934
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Handsomely illustrated and engagingly written, New York Modern documents the impressive collective legacy of New York's artists in capturing the energy and emotions of the urban experience.
A History of Collective Creation
Author: Kathryn Mederos SyssoyevaPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137331305
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Collective creation - the practice of collaboratively devising works of performance - rose to prominence not simply as a performance making method, but as an institutional model. By examining theatre practices in Europe and North America, this book explores collective creation's roots in the theatrical experiments of the early twentieth century.
Prologue
Author: New Deal Theater
Author: I. SaalPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230608833
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
New Deal Theater recovers a much ignored model of political theater for cultural criticism.While considered to be less radical in its aesthetics and politics than its celebrated Weimar and Soviet cousins, it nonetheless proved to be highly effective in asserting cultural critique. In this regard it offers a vital alternative to the dominant modernist paradigm developed in Europe. Rather than radicalizing content and form, New Deal theater insisted that the political had to be made commensurable with the language of a mass audience steeped in consumer culture.The resulting vernacular praxis emphasized empathy over alienation, verisimilitude over abstraction. By examining the cultural vectors that shaped this theater, Saal shows why it was more successful on the American stage than its European counterpart and develops a theory of vernacular political theater which can help us think of the political in art in other than modernist terms.