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David Mamet And American Macho

by Arthur (Brandeis University, Massachusetts) Holmberg

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 Through the gangsters, businessmen, soldiers, sailors, athletes, frontiersmen and thugs he created, David Mamet celebrates and criticizes American macho. Presenting close readings of Mamet's plays, this book demonstrates how the playwright addresses complex issues of masculinity and provides revealing insights into the masculine malaise.
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Slavery And Sentiment On The American Stage, 1787â€“1861 - Lifting The Veil Of Black

by Heather S. (University Of Maryland, College Park) Nathans

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 For almost a hundred years before Uncle Tom's Cabin burst on to the scene in 1852, the American theatre struggled to represent the evils of slavery. Slavery and Sentiment examines how both black and white Americans used the theatre to fight negative stereotypes of African Americans in the United States.
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David Mamet And American Macho

by Arthur (Brandeis University, Massachusetts) Holmberg

~~133,84€~~ 93,69€ 30% OFF

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 Through the gangsters, businessmen, soldiers, sailors, athletes, frontiersmen and thugs he created, David Mamet celebrates and criticizes American macho. Presenting close readings of Mamet's plays, this book demonstrates how the playwright addresses complex issues of masculinity and provides revealing insights into the masculine malaise.
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Censorship Of The American Theatre In The Twentieth Century

by John H. (Boston College, Massachusetts) Houchin

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 John Houchin explores the impact of censorship in twentieth-century American theatre, arguing that theatrical censorship coincided with significant challenges to religious, political and cultural systems. This study provides a summary of theatre censorship in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and then analyses key episodes from 1900 to 2000.
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A History Of Asian American Theatre

by Esther Kim (University Of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) Lee

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 Based on over seventy interviews and archival findings, this book surveys the history of Asian American theatre from 1965 to 2005. Subjects included in the study are: actors, playwrights, audiences, alternative performances and the Miss Saigon controversy. It was the first study to document the history of Asian American theatre.
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Congressional Theatre - Dramatizing Mccarthyism On Stage, Film, And Television

by Brenda (University Of Connecticut) Murphy

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 Congressional Theatre is the first book to identify and examine the significant body of plays, films, and teleplays that responded to the actions of the House Committee on Un-American Activities during the 'show business hearings' it held between 1947 and 1960. Among the writers discussed are Arthur Miller, Bertolt Brecht, and Elia Kazan.
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Demons Of Disorder - Early Blackface Minstrels And Their World

by Dale (Vanderbilt University, Tennessee) Cockrell

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 In Demons of Disorder, the first book on the blackface tradition, musicologist Dale Cockrell studies issues of race and class by analysing the cultural expressions of blackface minstrels, and investigates the roots of still-remembered songs.
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The Federal Theatre Project - A Case Study

by Barry B. (University Of Washington) Witham

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 Drawing upon archival resources, official correspondence and personal interviews, this 2003 book provides a detailed examination of the operations of the US Federal Theatre Project in the decade of the 1930s. The book recreates the often chaotic but frequently exhilarating story of Uncle Sam as producer.
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The Provincetown Players And The Culture Of Modernity

by Brenda (University Of Connecticut) Murphy

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 The Provincetown Players, an experimental theatre group that flourished in Greenwich Village from 1916 to 1922, included such playwrights as Eugene O'Neill, Susan Glaspell, and Edna St Vincent Millay. Murphy considers the group's vital role in the development of modernism, and its wider significance in twentieth century American culture.
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The Federal Theatre Project - A Case Study

by Barry B. (University Of Washington) Witham

~~45,96€~~ 32,17€ 30% OFF

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 Drawing upon archival resources, official correspondence and personal interviews, this 2003 book provides a detailed examination of the operations of the US Federal Theatre Project in the decade of the 1930s. The book recreates the often chaotic but frequently exhilarating story of Uncle Sam as producer.
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Sisters In Sin - Brothel Drama In America, 1900â€“1920

by Katie N. (Miami University) Johnson

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 A unique contribution to the study of American theatre, Sisters in Sin recovers a slice of theatre history in demonstrating how the prostitute was central to American realist theatre. Introducing previously unexamined archival documents and unpublished play scripts, Johnson provides an original examination of the forgotten 'brothel drama'.
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Expressionism And Modernism In The American Theatre - Bodies, Voices, Words

by Julia A. (University Of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) Walker

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 This study addresses the direct influence on American theatre of new technologies at the turn of the twentieth century. Walker argues that a specific form of drama - expressionism - developed in response to these technologies and to popular fears about them.
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Censorship Of The American Theatre In The Twentieth Century

by John H. (Boston College, Massachusetts) Houchin

~~58,13€~~ 40,69€ 30% OFF

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 John Houchin explores the impact of censorship in twentieth-century American theatre, arguing that theatrical censorship coincided with significant challenges to religious, political and cultural systems. This study provides a summary of theatre censorship in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and then analyses key episodes from 1900 to 2000.
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The Theatre Of Sam Shepard - States Of Crisis

by Stephen J. (University Of Glasgow) Bottoms

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 This comprehensive analysis traces Sam Shepard's career from his experimental one-act plays of the 1960s to the 1994 play Simpatico. Concentrating on his playwriting, this book charts Shepard's various developments and shifts of direction, and the changing contexts in which his work his appeared.
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Drama, Theatre, And Identity In The American New Republic

by Jeffrey H. (Old Dominion University, Virginia) Richards

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 Drama, Theatre, and Identity in the American New Republic explores how theatre both reflects and shapes the question of identity in post-revolutionary American culture. In this 2005 book Richards investigates the ways in which American theatre and playwrights struggled with representing national, cultural, and ethnic details for American audiences.
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Slavery And Sentiment On The American Stage, 1787â€“1861 - Lifting The Veil Of Black

by Heather S. (University Of Maryland, College Park) Nathans

~~133,84€~~ 93,69€ 30% OFF

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 For almost a hundred years before Uncle Tom's Cabin burst on to the scene in 1852, the American theatre struggled to represent the evils of slavery. Slavery and Sentiment examines how both black and white Americans used the theatre to fight negative stereotypes of African Americans in the United States.
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A History Of Asian American Theatre

by Esther Kim (University Of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) Lee

~~133,84€~~ 93,69€ 30% OFF

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 Based on over seventy interviews and archival findings, this book surveys the history of Asian American theatre from 1965 to 2005. Subjects included in the study are: actors, playwrights, audiences, alternative performances and the Miss Saigon controversy. It was the first study to document the history of Asian American theatre.
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Drama, Theatre, And Identity In The American New Republic

by Jeffrey H. (Old Dominion University, Virginia) Richards

~~154,11€~~ 107,88€ 30% OFF

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 Drama, Theatre, and Identity in the American New Republic explores how theatre both reflects and shapes the question of identity in post-revolutionary American culture. In this 2005 book Richards investigates the ways in which American theatre and playwrights struggled with representing national, cultural, and ethnic details for American audiences.
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Theatre Culture In America, 1825â€“1860

by Rosemarie K. (Kent State University, Ohio) Bank

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 Examines how Americans staged their cultures in the decades before the Civil War and advances the idea that cultures are performances which take place both inside and outside of playhouses.
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The Theatre In America During The Revolution

by Jared (Illinois Wesleyan University) Brown

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 A comprehensive attempt to assemble all that is known of theatre at the time of America's political birth. Brown provides a chronicle of this little-researched Revolutionary theatre, demonstrating how theatre impacted on the military and political objectives of both sides.
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The American Stage And The Great Depression - A Cultural History Of The Grotesque

by Mark (Pennsylvania State University) Fearnow

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 This book proposes a correlation between the divided 'mind' of America during the Depression and popular stage works of the era, which are interpreted as theatrical reflections of Depression culture's sense of being trapped between a discredited past and a nightmarish future.
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Early American Theatre From The Revolution To Thomas Jefferson - Into The Hands Of The People

by Heather S. (University Of Maryland, College Park) Nathans

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 Heather Nathans examines the growth and influence of the theatre in the development of the young American Republic, from the Revolution through to the election of Thomas Jefferson in 1800. This 2003 book explores the lives and motives of the people working behind the scenes to establish a new national drama.
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The Revisionist Stage - American Directors Reinvent The Classics

by Amy S. Green

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 Amy S. Green's book salutes the vision and talents of a group of artists who, depending on one's perspective, either revitalized or disfigured the standard dramatic repertoire by adapting canonical dramas for the contemporary American stage. This versatile and insightful study is a full-scale investigation of a remarkably rich and controversial genre.
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Theatre, Culture And Temperance Reform In Nineteenth-Century America

by John W. (University Of Virginia) Frick

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 Nineteenth-century America witnessed a movement against alcohol and as part of the cause a new genre of theatre developed. John Frick examines the role of temperance drama in American theatre, taking examples from both mainstream productions and amateur theatricals, and also compares the American genre to its British counterpart.
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