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Author :Daniel Charles Gerould Publisher :New York : Performing Arts Journal Publications ISBN 13 : Total Pages :264 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis American Melodrama by : Daniel Charles Gerould
Download or read book American Melodrama written by Daniel Charles Gerould and published by New York : Performing Arts Journal Publications. This book was released on 1983 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gerould goes a long way toward 'revisioning' the genre.--Nineteenth-Century Theatre Research
Book Synopsis Latin American Melodrama by : Darlene J. Sadlier
Download or read book Latin American Melodrama written by Darlene J. Sadlier and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like their Hollywood counterparts, Latin American film and TV melodramas have always been popular and highly profitable. The first of its kind, this anthology engages in a serious study of the aesthetics and cultural implications of Latin American melodramas. Written by some of the major figures in Latin American film scholarship, the studies range across seventy years of movies and television within a transnational context, focusing specifically on the period known as the "Golden Age" of melodrama, the impact of classic melodrama on later forms, and more contemporary forms of melodrama. An introductory essay examines current critical and theoretical debates on melodrama and places the essays within the context of Latin American film and media scholarship. Contributors are Luisela Alvaray, Mariana Baltar, Catherine L. Benamou, Marvin D’Lugo, Paula Félix-Didier, Andrés Levinson, Gilberto Perez, Darlene J. Sadlier, Cid Vasconcelos, and Ismail Xavier.
Download or read book Blood Talk written by Susan Gillman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2003-09-15 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this study, Susan Gillman explores America during the years from the end of Reconstruction to the First World War, and the rise during this period of a remarkable genre - the race melodrama - and the ways in which it converged with literary trends, popular history, and fringe movements." --Publisher.
Book Synopsis An American Melodrama by : Lewis Chester
Download or read book An American Melodrama written by Lewis Chester and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Performing American Identity in Anti-Mormon Melodrama by : Megan Sanborn Jones
Download or read book Performing American Identity in Anti-Mormon Melodrama written by Megan Sanborn Jones and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Ranch 10. Or, Annie from Massachusetts, an American Melodrama, in Three Acts and Two Tableaux by : Harry Meredith
Download or read book Ranch 10. Or, Annie from Massachusetts, an American Melodrama, in Three Acts and Two Tableaux written by Harry Meredith and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-06 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
Book Synopsis American Domesticity by : Kathleen Anne McHugh
Download or read book American Domesticity written by Kathleen Anne McHugh and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999-03-25 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the cult of domesticity to the Semiotics of the Kitchen, housekeeping has been central to both constructing and critiquing the role of women in American society. Frequently domesticity's style has been to make invisible the labor that produces it, allowing woman to be asserted or argued about in universal terms that downplay race, class, and material relations. American Domesticity considers this relationship in representations of domesticity and domestic labor over the last two centuries in didactic, cinematic, and feminist texts. While the domestic is usually conceived of as the antithesis of the public, economical, and political, Kathleen McHugh demonstrates how domestic discourse established the terms within which the most crucial national issues--the market economy, universal white male suffrage, slavery, the construction of racial difference, consumerism, spectatorship, desire, and even feminism--were conceived, assimilated, and understood. Beginning in the nineteenth century, the book investigates the historical roots of domestic labors invisibility in widely circulated didactic housekeeping manuals written by Lydia Child, Catherine Beecher, Mary Pattison, and Christine Frederick. It then considers how pedagogical discourses became entertainment discourses, their focus shifting from the silent era of film to the twilight of the classical period. The book concludes with an examination of the return of a pedagogical impulse within feminist film production concerning domesticity, comparing it to the concurrent rise of feminist film theory in the academy. Looking at this wide range of print and film texts, McHugh traces the outlines of a discourse of domesticity that claims to be private and universal but instead brokers difference within the public sphere.
Book Synopsis Passionate Politics by : Ralph J. Poole
Download or read book Passionate Politics written by Ralph J. Poole and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Melodrama and Modernity by : Ben Singer
Download or read book Melodrama and Modernity written by Ben Singer and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2001-02-05 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveying the expanding conflict in Europe during one of his famous fireside chats in 1940, President Franklin Roosevelt ominously warned that "we know of other methods, new methods of attack. The Trojan horse. The fifth column that betrays a nation unprepared for treachery. Spies, saboteurs, and traitors are the actors in this new strategy." Having identified a new type of war -- a shadow war -- being perpetrated by Hitler's Germany, FDR decided to fight fire with fire, authorizing the formation of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) to organize and oversee covert operations. Based on an extensive analysis of OSS records, including the vast trove of records released by the CIA in the 1980s and '90s, as well as a new set of interviews with OSS veterans conducted by the author and a team of American scholars from 1995 to 1997, The Shadow War Against Hitler is the full story of America's far-flung secret intelligence apparatus during World War II. In addition to its responsibilities generating, processing, and interpreting intelligence information, the OSS orchestrated all manner of dark operations, including extending feelers to anti-Hitler elements, infiltrating spies and sabotage agents behind enemy lines, and implementing propaganda programs. Planned and directed from Washington, the anti-Hitler campaign was largely conducted in Europe, especially through the OSS's foreign outposts in Bern and London. A fascinating cast of characters made the OSS run: William J. Donovan, one of the most decorated individuals in the American military who became the driving force behind the OSS's genesis; Allen Dulles, the future CIA chief who ran the Bern office, which he called "the big window onto the fascist world"; a veritable pantheon of Ivy League academics who were recruited to work for the intelligence services; and, not least, Roosevelt himself. A major contribution of the book is the story of how FDR employed Hitler's former propaganda chief, Ernst "Putzi" Hanfstengl, as a private spy. More than a record of dramatic incidents and daring personalities, this book adds significantly to our understanding of how the United States fought World War II. It demonstrates that the extent, and limitations, of secret intelligence information shaped not only the conduct of the war but also the face of the world that emerged from the shadows.
Book Synopsis Melodrama and the Myth of America by : Jeffrey Daniel Mason
Download or read book Melodrama and the Myth of America written by Jeffrey Daniel Mason and published by Drama and Performance Studies. This book was released on 1993 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Imitations of Life by : Marcia Landy
Download or read book Imitations of Life written by Marcia Landy and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On melodrama.
Book Synopsis Ranch 10, Or Annie From Massachusetts by : Harry Meredith
Download or read book Ranch 10, Or Annie From Massachusetts written by Harry Meredith and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Ranch 10, or Annie From Massachusetts: An American Melodrama, in Three Acts and Two Tableaux Neely. A pail of water is it well, well; there's a bucket in the house and water in the pump, help yourself or go wid out it. Joe. Hiss! Hiss! Hiss! You no make a much a gab Miss Irish bring a water for dat a pony and whiskey for de master. Neely. \vater for both I should suggest, let the horse drink first and then the master dip his ugly head in the pail. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis Ranch 10, Or, Annie from Massachusetts by : Harry [From Old Catalog] Meredith
Download or read book Ranch 10, Or, Annie from Massachusetts written by Harry [From Old Catalog] Meredith and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-05 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis An American Melodrama. The Presidential Campaign of 1968. Lewis Chester, Godfrey Hodgson, Bruce Page. (1. Publ.) by : Lewis Chester
Download or read book An American Melodrama. The Presidential Campaign of 1968. Lewis Chester, Godfrey Hodgson, Bruce Page. (1. Publ.) written by Lewis Chester and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis All that Hollywood Allows by : Jackie Byars
Download or read book All that Hollywood Allows written by Jackie Byars and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All that Hollywood Allows explores the representation of gender in popular Hollywood melodramas of the 1950s. Both a work of feminist film criticism and theory and an analysis of popular culture, this provocative book examines from a cultural studies perspective top-grossing film melodramas, such as A Streetcar Named Desire, From Here to Eternity, East of Eden, Imitation of Life and Picnic. Stereotypically viewed as a complacent and idyllic time, the 1950s were actually a time of dislocation and great social change. Jackie Byars argues that mass media texts of the period, especially films, provide evidence of society's consuming preoccupation with the domestic sphere - the nuclear family and its values - and she shows how Hollywood melodramas interpreted and extended societal debates concerning family structure, sexual divisions of labour, and gender roles. Her readings of these films assess a variety of critical methodologies and approaches to textual analysis, some central to feminist film studies and some previously bypassed by scholars in the field.
Download or read book American Melodrama written by Jason Marks and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Ranch 10. Or, Annie from Massachusetts, an American Melodrama, in Three Acts and Two Tableaux by : Harry Meredith
Download or read book Ranch 10. Or, Annie from Massachusetts, an American Melodrama, in Three Acts and Two Tableaux written by Harry Meredith and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-06 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
