Melodrama And The Myth Of America
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Melodrama And The Myth Of America
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Author : Jeffrey Daniel Mason
language : en
Publisher: Drama and Performance Studies
Release Date : 1993
Melodrama And The Myth Of America written by Jeffrey Daniel Mason and has been published by Drama and Performance Studies this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Drama categories.
Jeffrey Mason investigates the reasons for their popular success and reconstructs the social and political backdrop against which they were viewed. He shows how they functioned in the social discourse of the time as collective affirmations of certain cultural myths. Yet these acts of communal belief were played out on the contested stage of American ideological debate.
American Melodrama
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Author : Daniel Charles Gerould
language : en
Publisher: New York : Performing Arts Journal Publications
Release Date : 1983
American Melodrama written by Daniel Charles Gerould and has been published by New York : Performing Arts Journal Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with American drama categories.
Gerould goes a long way toward 'revisioning' the genre.--Nineteenth-Century Theatre Research
Performing American Identity In Anti Mormon Melodrama
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Author : Megan Sanborn Jones
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2009-06-10
Performing American Identity In Anti Mormon Melodrama written by Megan Sanborn Jones and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-10 with History categories.
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 specifically on the construction of the Mormon villain as rapist, murderer, and Turk in anti-Mormon melodramas. These melodramas illustrated a particularly religious world-view that dominated American life and promoted the sexually conservative ideals of the cult of true womanhood. They also examined the limits of honorable violence, and suggested the whiteness of national ethnicity. In investigating the relationship between theatre, popular literature, political rhetoric, and religious fervor, Megan Sanborn Jones reveals how anti-Mormon melodramas created a space for audiences to imagine a unified American identity.
Passionate Politics
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Author : Ralph J. Poole
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2009-03-26
Passionate Politics written by Ralph J. Poole and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-26 with History categories.
This new collection of essays on American stage and film melodrama assesses the multifarious and contradictory uses to which melodrama has been put in American culture from the late 18th century to the present. It focuses on the various ways in which the genre has periodically intervened in debates over race, class, gender and sexuality and, in this manner, has also persistently contributed to the formation and transformation of American nationhood: from the debates over who constitutes the newborn nation in the Early Republic, to the subsequent conflict over abolition and the discussion of gender roles at the turn of the 19th century, to the fervent class struggles of the 1930s and the critiques of domestic containment in the 1950s, as well as to ongoing debates of gender, race, and sexuality today. Addressing these issues from a variety of different angles, including historical, aesthetic, cultural, phenomenological, and psychological approaches, these essays present a complex picture of the cultural work and passionate politics accomplished by melodrama over the course of the past two centuries, particularly at times of profound social change.
The Myth Of America
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Author : Viola Sachs
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2019-05-20
The Myth Of America written by Viola Sachs and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-20 with Literary Criticism categories.
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American Melodrama
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Author : Jason Marks
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1953
American Melodrama written by Jason Marks and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1953 with categories.
Imitations Of Life
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Author : Louise McReynolds
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2002-03-29
Imitations Of Life written by Louise McReynolds and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-03-29 with Drama categories.
DIVUses the under-studied genre of melodrama as a critical prism for understanding Russian/Soviet history, politics and culture--in particular, the uses to which popular culture was put in the Soviet period./div
The Ghosts Within
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Author : Janna Odabas
language : en
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Release Date : 2018-11-30
The Ghosts Within written by Janna Odabas and has been published by transcript Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
The ghost as a literary figure has been interpreted multiple times: spiritually, psychoanalytically, sociologically, or allegorically. Following these approaches, Janna Odabas understands ghosts in Asian American literature as self-reflexive figures. With identity politics at the core of the ghost concept, Odabas emphasizes how ghosts critically renegotiate the notion of 'Asian America' as heterogeneous and transnational and resist interpretation through a morally or politically preconceived approach to Asian American literature. Responding to the tensions of the scholarly field, Odabas argues that the literary works under scrutiny openly play with and rethink conceptions of ghosts as mere exotic, ethnic ornamentation.
Reworlding America
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Author : John Muthyala
language : en
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Release Date : 2006
Reworlding America written by John Muthyala and has been published by Ohio University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with America categories.
"By emphasizing transnational migration, border crossing, and colonial modernity, Reworlding America exposes how national, ethnic, linguistic, religious, and cultural boundaries have been continually created and transgressed - with profound consequences for the peoples of the Americas."--BOOK JACKET.
Interrogating America Through Theatre And Performance
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Author : Iris Smith Fischer
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-04-30
Interrogating America Through Theatre And Performance written by Iris Smith Fischer and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-30 with Performing Arts categories.
This collection of essays dissects American plays, movies and other performance types that examine America and its history and culture. From Amerindian stage performances to AIDS and post-9/11 America, it displays the various and important ways theatre and performance studies have examined and conversed with American culture and history.