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Please note this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title (PTO). Stock of this book requires shipment from an overseas supplier. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. This study analyses the history of puppet, mask, and performing object theatre in the United States over the past 150 years to understand how a peculiarly American mixture of global cultures, commercial theatre, modern-art idealism, and mechanical innovation reinvented the ancient art of puppetry.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Credits
- 1. Playing with Stuff: The Material World in Performance
- 2. The Sioux War Panorama and American Mythic History
- 3. Shalako Puppets and Nineteenth-Century Ritual
- 4. The Little Theatre Movement and the Birth of the American Puppeteer: Midwest Puppet Modernism
- 5. New York Puppet Modernism: Remo Bufano and Jane Heap
- 6. Puppets and Propaganda: 1930s Parades in New York City
- 7. American Puppet Modernism in the 1930s: Gertrude Stein’s Identity
- 8. From Sorcery to Science: Remo Bufano and World’s Fair Puppet Theatre
- 9. Performing Objects, Special Effects, and Mass Media
- 10. Automobile Performance and Kustom Kulture
- 11. Beyond the Cold War: Bread and Puppet Theater at the End of the Century
- 12. Old and New Materials: Wood, Paper, Metal, Plastic, Bone
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Publications by John Bell
- Index