Interrogating America through Theatre and Performance
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Interrogating America through Theatre and Performance

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Interrogating America through Theatre and Performance

About this book

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.

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Yes, you can access Interrogating America through Theatre and Performance by Kenneth A. Loparo,Iris Smith Fischer, W. Demastes in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Media & Performing Arts & North American History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of Illustrations
  8. Introduction: America Defined and Refined
  9. 1. The Savage Other: "Indianizing" and Performance in Nineteenth-Century American Culture
  10. 2. Defining Faith: Theatrical Reactions to Pro-Slavery Christianity in Antebellum America
  11. 3. Negotiating a New Identity: Irish Americans and the Variety Theatre in the 1860s
  12. 4. Drama and Cultural Pluralism in the America of Susan Glaspell's Inheritors
  13. 5. Beneath the Horizon: Pipe Dreams, Identity, and Capital in Eugene O'Neill's First Broadway Play
  14. 6. Vernacularizing Brecht: The Political Theatre of the New Deal
  15. 7. Let Freedom Ring: Mordecai Gorelik's Politicized Stage Designs
  16. 8. Choreographing America: Redefining American Ballet in the Age of Consensus
  17. 9. Arthur Miller: In Memoriam
  18. 10. Menageries, Melting Pots, Movies: Tennessee on America
  19. 11. Facts on Trial: Documentary Theatre and Zoot Suit
  20. 12. "The Ground on Which I Stand is I, too, Am America": African American Cycle Dramatists, Dramas, and the Voice of Inclusion
  21. 13. My Uncle Sam in Consumer Society: Len Jenkin and the Death of Death of a Salesman
  22. 14. From Paradise to Parasite: Information Theory, Noise, and Disequilibrium in John Guare's Six Degrees of Separation
  23. 15. Not "Very Steven Spielberg"?: Angels in America on Film
  24. 16. Reflections in a Pool: Mary Zimmerman's Metamorphoses and Post-9/11 New York City
  25. 17. An American Echo: Suzan-Lori Parks's The America Play and James Scruggs's Disposable Men
  26. List of Contributors
  27. Index