Bøker av Megan Sanborn Jones

In the late nineteenth century, melodramas were spectacular entertainment for Americans. They were also a key forum in which elements of American culture were represented, contested, and inverted. This book focuses on the construction of the Mormon villain as rapist, murderer, and Turk in anti-Mormon melodramas.

Looks at Mormon pageants, outdoor theatrical productions that celebrate church theology, reenact church history, and bring to life stories from the Book of Mormon. Megan Sanborn Jones examines four pageants in the US - the Hill Cumorah Pageant in New York, the Manti Pageant in Utah, the Nauvoo Pageant in Illinois, and the Mesa Easter Pageant.