Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American newspapers
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
The Ohio Newspaper
Author: The Billboard
Author: Motion Picture News
Author: Vaudeville old & new
Author: Frank CullenPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0415938538
Category : Entertainers
Languages : en
Pages : 1362
Book Description
Winchell
Author: Neal GablerPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0679764399
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
Hailed as the most important and entertaining biography in recent memory, Gabler's account of the life of fast-talking gossip columnist and radio broadcaster Walter Winchell "fuses meticulous research with a deft grasp of the cultural nuances of an era when virtually everyone who mattered paid homage to Winchell" (Time). of photos.
A Revolution in Three Acts
Author: David HajduPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231549547
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Winner - 2022 Deems Taylor / Virgil Thomson Book Awards in Pop from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers Bert Williams—a Black man forced to perform in blackface who challenged the stereotypes of minstrelsy. Eva Tanguay—an entertainer with the signature song “I Don’t Care” who flouted the rules of propriety to redefine womanhood for the modern age. Julian Eltinge—a female impersonator who entranced and unnerved audiences by embodying the feminine ideal Tanguay rejected. At the turn of the twentieth century, they became three of the most provocative and popular performers in vaudeville, the form in which American mass entertainment first took shape. A Revolution in Three Acts explores how these vaudeville stars defied the standards of their time to change how their audiences thought about what it meant to be American, to be Black, to be a woman or a man. The writer David Hajdu and the artist John Carey collaborate in this work of graphic nonfiction, crafting powerful portrayals of Williams, Tanguay, and Eltinge to show how they transformed American culture. Hand-drawn images give vivid visual form to the lives and work of the book’s subjects and their world. This book is at once a deft telling of three intricately entwined stories, a lush evocation of a performance milieu with unabashed entertainment value, and an eye-opening account of a key moment in American cultural history with striking parallels to present-day questions of race, gender, and sexual identity.
Broadway
Author: Ken BloomPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135950199
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 679
Book Description
This volume is another example in the Routledge tradition of producing high-quality reference works on theater, music, and the arts. An A to Z encyclopedia of Broadway, this volume includes tons of information, including producers, writer, composers, lyricists, set designers, theaters, performers, and landmarks in its sweep.
New York Star
Author: The Film Renter and Moving Picture News
Author: Encyclopedia of American Journalism
Author: Stephen L. VaughnPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135880190
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1446
Book Description
The Encyclopedia of American Journalism explores the distinctions found in print media, radio, television, and the internet. This work seeks to document the role of these different forms of journalism in the formation of America's understanding and reaction to political campaigns, war, peace, protest, slavery, consumer rights, civil rights, immigration, unionism, feminism, environmentalism, globalization, and more. This work also explores the intersections between journalism and other phenomena in American Society, such as law, crime, business, and consumption. The evolution of journalism's ethical standards is discussed, as well as the important libel and defamation trials that have influenced journalistic practice, its legal protection, and legal responsibilities. Topics covered include: Associations and Organizations; Historical Overview and Practice; Individuals; Journalism in American History; Laws, Acts, and Legislation; Print, Broadcast, Newsgroups, and Corporations; Technologies.