Read Books Online and Download eBooks, EPub, PDF, Mobi, Kindle, Text Full Free.
Selected Theatre Criticism 1900 1919
Download Selected Theatre Criticism 1900 1919 full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Selected Theatre Criticism 1900 1919 ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Book Synopsis Selected Radio and Television Criticism by : Anthony Slide
Download or read book Selected Radio and Television Criticism written by Anthony Slide and published by Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Included here are critical comments on radio programs and personalities from the late 1920s through the late 40s and television shows and celebrities from the late 40s through the late 50s. A unique sourcebook for documentation on Fred Allen, Jack Benny, Milton Berle, Father Coughlin, Edward R. Murrow, and many others.
Book Synopsis The Ziegfeld Follies by : Ann Ommen van der Merwe
Download or read book The Ziegfeld Follies written by Ann Ommen van der Merwe and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This documented history reconstructs the song performances of each annual production of the Ziegfeld Follies from 1907 to 1931. In so doing, it demonstrates the important role of song in facilitating the comedy and spectacle for which the Follies are better known.
Book Synopsis The Emergence of the Modern American Theater, 1914-1929 by : Ronald Harold Wainscott
Download or read book The Emergence of the Modern American Theater, 1914-1929 written by Ronald Harold Wainscott and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the emergence of the modern American theatre in New York during a period of immense creative output and experimentation and against a backdrop of conflicting cultural, economic and political events, this text draws upon material from plays and productions in between 1914-1929.
Book Synopsis Early American Cinema by : Anthony Slide
Download or read book Early American Cinema written by Anthony Slide and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a concise history of the American motion picture industry before 1920.
Book Synopsis Nitrate Won_Ñét Wait by : Anthony Slide
Download or read book Nitrate Won_Ñét Wait written by Anthony Slide and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-05-03 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study looks at the preservation process: newsreel, television, and color preservation; the often controversial issue of colorization; and commercial film archives. It provides detailed histories of the major players in the preservation battle including the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, the American Film Institute, the Museum of Modern Art, the UCLA Film and Television Archive, and the Library of Congress. This first historical overview of film preservation in the United States is also highly controversial in its exposure and criticism of the politicization of film preservation in recent years, and the rising bureaucracy which has often lost sight of preservation and restoration as the ultimate purpose of film archives.
Book Synopsis The Critics' Canon by : Richard Hudson Palmer
Download or read book The Critics' Canon written by Richard Hudson Palmer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1988-10-19 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Palmer clearly states that his purpose is to explain 1the ways of critics to theatre practitioners, the ways of theatre to inexperienced reviewers, and the dynamic convergence of theatre and critic to anyone interested in theatre.' . . . The work is a well-written `primer' for writers and it will be useful primarily to performers who object to unfavorable `criticsm' without understanding the nature and purpose of reviewing. Accessible to general readers and undergraduates. Choice Palmer begins with an examination of the theatrical review as a medium for informing and entertaining theatregoers, documenting events of artistic of community importance, and supporting theatre through critical evaluation and publicity. He next comments on how journalistic pressures affect reviewers. Citing brief examples from hundreds of reviews, the author devotes a chapter to each of the elements that needs to be covered in a review, including performers, script, direction, music, and choreography, together with stage and lighting design and other physical aspects of the production. The final chapter develops criteria for assessing the strengths and weaknesses of a theatrical review, based on aesthetic standards, the cultural tastes of theatregoers, and the interests of the community. Palmer's experience as both a theatre professional and a journalist gives him an intimate understanding of the antagonism that often develops between reviewers and those who feel themselves to be the target of irresponsible criticism. His book provides a clear perspective on theatrical matters and guidelines that will help to improve standards of reviewing and create an appreciation of the essential relationship between the theatre and its critics.
Book Synopsis Broadway and Corporate Capitalism by : M. Schwartz
Download or read book Broadway and Corporate Capitalism written by M. Schwartz and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-07-20 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through an examination of plays, actors, reviews, and audience response of the period, this study traces the development of Broadway as a source of 'mature' American drama, and the simultaneous development of Professional-Managerial Class consciousness and habitus.
Book Synopsis American Drama of the Twentieth Century by : Gerald M. Berkowitz
Download or read book American Drama of the Twentieth Century written by Gerald M. Berkowitz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Professor Berkowitz studies the diversity of American drama from the stylistic, experimental plays of O'Neill, through verse, tragedy and community theatre, to the theatre of the 1990s. The discussions range through dramatists, plays, genres and themes, with full supporting appendix material. It also examines major dramatists such as Eugene O'Neill, Arthur Miller, Sam Shephard, Tennessee Williams and August Wilson and covers not only the Broadway scene but also off Broadway movements and fringe theatres and such subjects as women's and African-American drama.
Book Synopsis They Also Wrote for the Fan Magazines by : Anthony Slide
Download or read book They Also Wrote for the Fan Magazines written by Anthony Slide and published by McFarland. This book was released on 1992 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fan magazines occupied a unique role in American popular culture during the first half of the twentieth century. Their appeal was in the many stars they featured and, on infrequent occasion, the major literary figures who contributed to the pages.Presented here is an anthology of articles from many of the major fan magazines of the 1920s and 1930s written by those not normally associated with this genre: E.E. Cummings, Theodore Drieser, Janet Flanner, Archibald MacLeish, W. Somerset Maugham, and Eleanor Roosevelt. Each article is fully annotated and accompanied by an introductory essay discussing the author's involvement with the movie industry.
Book Synopsis Best Reference Books, 1981-1985 by : Bohdan S. Wynar
Download or read book Best Reference Books, 1981-1985 written by Bohdan S. Wynar and published by Littleton, Colo. : Libraries Unlimited. This book was released on 1986 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Women Pulitzer Playwrights by : Carolyn Casey Craig
Download or read book Women Pulitzer Playwrights written by Carolyn Casey Craig and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2004-11-05 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first century of the coveted Pulitzer Prizes, only 11 women have won the prize for drama: Zona Gale (1921), Susan Glaspell (1931), Zoe Akins (1935), Mary Coyle Chase (1945), Ketti Frings (1958), Beth Henley (1981), Marsha Norma (1983), Wendy Wasserstein (1989), Paula Vogel (1998), Margaret Edson (1999), and Suzan-Lori Parks (2002). This book is about them and their landmark plays, beginning with Gale's Miss Lulu Bett, which championed the unmarried woman forced to work in the home of a married relative, and closing with Parks' controversial Topdog/Underdog, which made her the first black woman to win the prize. Drawn from personal interviews with the playwrights and research from archives and unpublished material, this work shows how the stage art of women has reflected life in the American family and traces a strong thread of feminist history in our culture. Overview chapters set the stage for each playwright and play with sketches of the time period, highlighting the major points of women's experiences in culture, society and the family. Other chapters analyze each play in detail and discuss the playwright's life and opinions. The book also includes a quick history of the Pulitzer Prize and a chapter honoring black female playwrights.
Book Synopsis Taking the Town by : Kolan Thomas Morelock
Download or read book Taking the Town written by Kolan Thomas Morelock and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2008-08-22 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between a town and its local institutions of higher education is often fraught with turmoil. The complicated tensions between the identity of a city and the character of a university can challenge both communities. Lexington, Kentucky, displays these characteristic conflicts, with two historic educational institutions within its city limits: Transylvania University, the first college west of the Allegheny Mountains, and the University of Kentucky, formerly "State College." An investigative cultural history of the town that called itself "The Athens of the West," Taking the Town: Collegiate and Community Culture in Lexington, Kentucky, 1880--1917 depicts the origins and development of this relationship at the turn of the twentieth century. Lexington's location in the upper South makes it a rich region for examination. Despite a history of turmoil and violence, Lexington's universities serve as catalysts for change. Until the publication of this book, Lexington was still characterized by academic interpretations that largely consider Southern intellectual life an oxymoron. Kolan Thomas Morelock illuminates how intellectual life flourished in Lexington from the period following Reconstruction to the nation's entry into the First World War. Drawing from local newspapers and other primary sources from around the region, Morelock offers a comprehensive look at early town-gown dynamics in a city of contradictions. He illuminates Lexington's identity by investigating the lives of some influential personalities from the era, including Margaret Preston and Joseph Tanner. Focusing on literary societies and dramatic clubs, the author inspects the impact of social and educational university organizations on the town's popular culture from the Gilded Age to the Progressive Era. Morelock's work is an enlightening analysis of the intersection between student and citizen intellectual life in the Bluegrass city during an era of profound change and progress. Taking the Town explores an overlooked aspect of Lexington's history during a time in which the city was establishing its cultural and intellectual identity.
Book Synopsis Index to American Reference Books Annual by :
Download or read book Index to American Reference Books Annual written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Index to American Reference Books Annual 1985-1989 by :
Download or read book Index to American Reference Books Annual 1985-1989 written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1970- issued in 2 vols.: v. 1, General reference, social sciences, history, economics, business; v. 2, Fine arts, humanities, science and engineering.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Guide to American Theatre by : Don B. Wilmeth
Download or read book The Cambridge Guide to American Theatre written by Don B. Wilmeth and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-06-13 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This new and updated Guide, with over 2,700 cross-referenced entries, covers all aspects of the American theatre from its earliest history to the present. Entries include people, venues and companies scattered through the U.S., plays and musicals, and theatrical phenomena. Additionally, there are some 100 topical entries covering theatre in major U.S. cities and such disparate subjects as Asian American theatre, Chicano theatre, censorship, Filipino American theatre, one-person performances, performance art, and puppetry. Highly illustrated, the Guide is supplemented with a historical survey as introduction, a bibliography of major sources published since the first edition, and a biographical index covering over 3,200 individuals mentioned in the text."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Choice written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shakespeare Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: