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    - Theatre, the Spanish Civil War, and the Decolonial Imagination in the Americas
    av Lisa Jackson-Schebetta
    715,-

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    - Englishness and Theatre in Revolutionary America
    av Odai Johnson
    715,-

    In this remarkable feat of historical research, Odai Johnson pieces together the surviving fragments of the story of the first professional theatre troupe based in the British North American colonies. In doing so, he tells the story of how colonial elites came to decide they would no longer style themselves British gentlemen, but instead American citizens.

  • - Capital, Race, and Nation at Washington D.C.'s Arena Stage
    av Donatella Galella
    987

    More than a chronicle, America in the Round is a critical history that reveals how far Washington D.C.'s Arena Stage could go with its budget and racially liberal politics, and how Arena both disputed and duplicated systems of power.

  • - Immigration, Urban Life, and Nationalism on Stage
     
    987

    The American Progressive Era is generally regarded as a dynamic period of political reform and social activism. In this volume, editors bring together scholars in nineteenth- and twentieth-century theatre studies to examine the burst of diverse performance venues and styles of the time, revealing how they shaped national narratives surrounding immigration and urban life.

  • - Bringing Three Serials of the Roaring Twenties to Stage and Screen
    av Bethany Wood
    987

    What does it mean, this book asks, to translate a Jazz Age blockbuster from book to film or stage? What adjustments are necessary and what is lost? Bethany Wood examines three well-known stories that debuted as women's magazine serials and traces how each of these narratives traveled across publishing, theatre, and film through adaptation.

  • - Alternative Theatre in Eastern and Central Europe after 1989
    av Vessela S. Warner
    1 017

    In the transition to a postcommunist world in Eastern Europe, "alternative theatre" found ways to grapple with political chaos, corruption, and aggressive implementation of a market economy. Three decades later, this volume is the first comprehensive examination of alternative theatre in ten former communist countries.

  • - The Labor Drama Experiment and Radical Activism in the Early Twentieth Century
    av Mary McAvoy
    987

    Between the world wars, several labour colleges sprouted up across the US. These schools, funded by unions, sought to provide members with adult education while also indoctrinating them into the cause. As Mary McAvoy reveals, a big part of that learning experience centered on the schools' drama programs.

  • - Musical Theatre and the Politics of Bursting into Song and Dance
    av Bradley Rogers
    616,-

    Musicals, it is often said, burst into song and dance when mere words can no longer convey the emotion. This book argues that musicals burst into song and dance when one body can no longer convey the emotion.

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    - Stage Roles of Anglo-American Girls in the Nineteenth Century
    av Marlis Schweitzer
    878,-

    Traces the theatrical repertoire of a small group of white Anglo-American actresses as they reshaped the meanings of girlhood in Britain, North America, and the British West Indies during the first half of the nineteenth century.

  • - Black Feminist Comedy in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Century United States
    av Katelyn Hale Wood
    396

    Archives and analyses Black feminist stand-up comedy in the United States over the past sixty years. Looking closely at the work of Jackie 'Moms' Mabley, Mo'Nique, Wanda Sykes, Sasheer Zamata, Sam Jay, and others, this book shows how Black feminist comedy and the laughter it ignites are vital components of feminist, queer, and anti-racist protest.

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