Theatre Culture And Temperance Reform In Nineteenth Century America
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Theatre Culture And Temperance Reform In Nineteenth Century America
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Author : John W. Frick
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2003-07-21
Theatre Culture And Temperance Reform In Nineteenth Century America written by John W. Frick and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-07-21 with Drama categories.
This book examines the role of temperance drama in American theatre and compares the American genre to its British counterpart.
Spectacles Of Reform
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Author : Amy E. Hughes
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2012-12-17
Spectacles Of Reform written by Amy E. Hughes and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-17 with Performing Arts categories.
In the nineteenth century, long before film and television brought us explosions, car chases, and narrow escapes, it was America's theaters that thrilled audiences, with “sensation scenes” of speeding trains, burning buildings, and endangered bodies, often in melodramas extolling the virtues of temperance, abolition, and women's suffrage. Amy E. Hughes scrutinizes these peculiar intersections of spectacle and reform, revealing the crucial role that spectacle has played in American activism and how it has remained central to the dramaturgy of reform. Hughes traces the cultural history of three famous sensation scenes—the drunkard with the delirium tremens, the fugitive slave escaping over a river, and the victim tied to the railroad tracks—assessing how these scenes conveyed, allayed, and denied concerns about the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. These images also appeared in printed propaganda, suggesting that the coup de théâtre was an essential part of American reform culture. Additionally, Hughes argues that today’s producers and advertisers continue to exploit the affective dynamism of spectacle, reaching an even broader audience through film, television, and the Internet. To be attuned to the dynamics of spectacle, Hughes argues, is to understand how we see. Her book will interest not only theater historians, but also scholars and students of political, literary, and visual culture who are curious about how U.S. citizens saw themselves and their world during a pivotal period in American history.
Uncle Tom S Cabin On The American Stage And Screen
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Author : John W. Frick
language : en
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Release Date : 2015-11-04
Uncle Tom S Cabin On The American Stage And Screen written by John W. Frick and has been published by Palgrave Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-04 with Performing Arts categories.
No play in the history of the American Stage has been as ubiquitous and as widely viewed as Uncle Tom's Cabin . This book traces the major dramatizations of Stowe's classic from its inception in 1852 through modern versions on film. Frick introduce the reader to the artists who created the plays and productions that created theatre history.
Childhood And Nineteenth Century American Theatre
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Author : Shauna Vey
language : en
Publisher: SIU Press
Release Date : 2015-10-08
Childhood And Nineteenth Century American Theatre written by Shauna Vey and has been published by SIU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-08 with History categories.
"This study of the daily work lives of five members of the Marsh Troupe, a nineteenth-century professional acting company composed primarily of children, sheds light on the construction of idealized childhood inside and outside the American theatre"--
The Oxford Handbook Of American Drama
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Author : Jeffrey H. Richards
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2014-02
The Oxford Handbook Of American Drama written by Jeffrey H. Richards and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02 with Drama categories.
This volume explores the history of American drama from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. It describes origins of early republican drama and its evolution during the pre-war and post-war periods. It traces the emergence of different types of American drama including protest plays, reform drama, political drama, experimental drama, urban plays, feminist drama and realist plays. This volume also analyzes the works of some of the most notable American playwrights including Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, and Arthur Miller and those written by women dramatists.
Music And Performance Culture In Nineteenth Century Britain
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Author : Bennett Zon
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-29
Music And Performance Culture In Nineteenth Century Britain written by Bennett Zon and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-29 with Music categories.
Music and Performance Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Essays in Honour of Nicholas Temperley is the first book to focus upon aspects of performance in the broader context of nineteenth-century British musical culture. In four Parts, 'Musical Cultures', 'Societies', 'National Music' and 'Methods', this volume assesses the role music performance plays in articulating significant trends and currents of the cultural life of the period and includes articles on performance and individual instruments; orchestral and choral ensembles; church and synagogue music; music societies; cantatas; vocal albums; the middle-class salon, conducting; church music; and piano pedagogy. An introduction explores Temperley's vast contribution to musicology, highlighting his seminal importance in creating the field of nineteenth-century British music studies, and a bibliography provides an up-to-date list of his publications, including books and monographs, book chapters, journal articles, editions, reviews, critical editions, arrangements and compositions. Fittingly devoted to a significant element in Temperley's research, this book provides scholars of all nineteenth-century musical topics the opportunity to explore the richness of Britain's musical history.
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.
Theatre Symposium Vol 15
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Author : M. Scott Phillips
language : en
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Release Date : 2007-09-23
Theatre Symposium Vol 15 written by M. Scott Phillips and has been published by University of Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-09-23 with Performing Arts categories.
The essays gathered together in Volume 15 of the annual journal Theatre Symposium investigate how, historically, the theatre has been perceived both as a source of moral anxiety and as an instrument of moral and social reform. Essays consider, among other subjects, ethnographic depictions of the savage “other” in Buffalo Bill’s engagement at the Columbian Exposition of 1893; the so-called “Moral Reform Melodrama” in the nineteenth century; charity theatricals and the ways they negotiated standards of middle-class respectability; the figure of the courtesan as a barometer of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century moral and sexual discourse; Aphra Behn’s subversion of Restoration patriarchal sexual norms in The Feigned Courtesans; and the controversy surrounding one production of Tony Kushner Angels in America, during which officials at one of the nation’s more prominent liberal arts colleges attempted to censor the production, a chilling reminder that academic and artistic freedom cannot be taken for granted in today’s polarized moral and political atmosphere.
Staged Readings
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Author : Michael D'Alessandro
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2022-09-26
Staged Readings written by Michael D'Alessandro and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-26 with Literary Criticism categories.
How popular culture helped to create class in nineteenth-century America
Slavery And Sentiment On The American Stage 1787 1861
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Author : Heather S. Nathans
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2009-03-19
Slavery And Sentiment On The American Stage 1787 1861 written by Heather S. Nathans and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-19 with Drama categories.
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.
