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Book Synopsis Female Spectacle by : Susan A. Glenn
Download or read book Female Spectacle written by Susan A. Glenn and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the French actress Sarah Bernhardt made her first American tour in 1880, the term feminism had not yet entered our national vocabulary. But over the course of the next half-century, a rising generation of daring actresses and comics brought a new kind of woman to center stage. Exploring and exploiting modern fantasies and fears about female roles and gender identity, these performers eschewed theatrical convention and traditional notions of womanly modesty. They created powerful images of themselves as ambitious, independent, and sexually expressive New Women. Female Spectacle reveals the theater to have been a powerful new source of cultural authority and visibility for women. Ironically, theater also provided an arena in which producers and audiences projected the uncertainties and hostilities that accompanied changing gender relations. From Bernhardt's modern methods of self-promotion to Emma Goldman's political theatrics, from the female mimics and Salome dancers to the upwardly striving chorus girl, Glenn shows us how and why theater mattered to women and argues for its pivotal role in the emergence of modern feminism.
Book Synopsis Vaudeville old & new by : Frank Cullen
Download or read book Vaudeville old & new written by Frank Cullen and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 1362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Munsey's Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 1010 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis From the Footlights to the Tenderloin by : David Grassé
Download or read book From the Footlights to the Tenderloin written by David Grassé and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-07-04 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her early 20s, Edna Loftus had the world at her feet. As a showgirl in England and France during the Edwardian era, she appeared in many successful theater productions, regularly graced the pages of contemporary magazines, and was featured on numerous picture postcards. She hobnobbed with royalty and kept company with the creme de la creme of European society. Then fate seemingly turned on Edna. After two unsuccessful marriages (the second ending with her husband being incarcerated in an asylum), she was left alone in California, and her decline into poverty and prostitution became fodder for the newspapers which had once sung her praises. By the time of her death in her early 30s, Edna was "a pathetic figure pointed out as a bit of a curiosity because she once had been famous on two continents." Edna Loftus was very much a product of her times. It was not simply a matter of bad choices on Edna's part which led to her dissolution, but also the institutionalized socio-cultural constructs of patriarchy, classism, and religious intolerance of the Edwardian Era. This biography, the first ever written about Edna, examines how these factors played into her descent from the sparkling footlights of the European theaters to the red lights of San Francisco's infamous Tenderloin District and destroyed her in the end.
Download or read book Body Knowledge written by Mary Simonson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the deployment of intermedial aesthetics in the works of early twentieth-century female performers. By destabilizing medial and genre boundaries, these women created compelling and meaningful performances that negotiated turn-of-the-century American social and cultural issues.
Download or read book The Bystander written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Setting the Stage by : Herbert Whittaker
Download or read book Setting the Stage written by Herbert Whittaker and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1999 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stage designer, director, and critic Whittaker recounts his experiences in the Montreal theater scene between 1920 and 1949. Coverage includes profiles of actors, directors, and producers; descriptions of early theaters; and a discussion of the competition between francophone and anglophone artists. Rittenhouse's (drama, Bishop's University) introduction, chronology, and commentary serve to place the memoir in context. c. Book News Inc.
Book Synopsis Peter Pan on Stage and Screen, 1904-2010, 2d ed. by : Bruce K. Hanson
Download or read book Peter Pan on Stage and Screen, 1904-2010, 2d ed. written by Bruce K. Hanson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-08-10 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounting the more than century-long stage and screen history of J.M. Barrie's play Peter Pan, Bruce K. Hanson updates and expands his 1993 volume on "The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up." Hanson traces the origin of Barrie's tale through the first London production in 1904, to various British and American theatrical and film productions up to and including the stage versions of 2010. Included are excerpts of interviews with actresses Dinah Sheridan, Mary Martin and Sandy Duncan, all of whom portrayed Peter Pan on stage, and Betty Comden and Adolph Green, lyricists for the 1954 Broadway musical. The book features a wealth of rare photos, posters, programs and costume designs. An appendix lists virtually every actor who has performed a featured role in a London, Broadway or Hollywood production of Peter Pan from 1904 to the present.
Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Medievalism by : Joanne Parker
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Medievalism written by Joanne Parker and published by Oxford Handbooks. This book was released on 2020 with total page 709 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victorian medievalism physically transformed the streets of Britain It lay at the root of new laws and social policies It changed religious practices It deeply coloured national identities And it inspired art literature and music that remains influential to this day Sometimes driven by nostalgia but also often progressive and futurefacing this widereaching movement which reached its peak during the reign of Queen Victoria looked back to a range of different peoples and historical periods spanning a thousand years in order to inspire and vindicate cultural political and social change Medievalism was pervasive in Victorian literature with texts ranging from translated sagas to pseudomedieval devotional verse to tripledecker novels It became a dominant architectural mode transforming the English landscape with 75% of new churches built on a 'Gothic' rather than a classical model as well as museums railway stations town halls and pumping stations It was appealed to by both Whigs and Tories But it also permeated domestic life influencing the popularity of beards the naming of children and the design of homes and furniture This landmark study is an attempt to draw together for the first time every major aspect of Victorian medievalism and to examine the phenomenon from the perspective of the many disciplines to which it is relevant including intellectual history religious studies social history literary history art history and architecture Bringing together the expertise of 39 experts from different subject areas it reveals the pervasiveness and multifaceted character of the movement in the nineteenth century and explains its continuing legacy today
Download or read book New York Star written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Notable American Women, 1607-1950 by : Radcliffe College
Download or read book Notable American Women, 1607-1950 written by Radcliffe College and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 2172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 1. A-F, Vol. 2. G-O, Vol. 3. P-Z modern period.
Download or read book Boston Home Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 1138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Illustrated Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The American Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Aberdeen-Angus Herd Book by : Aberdeen-Angus Cattle Society
Download or read book The Aberdeen-Angus Herd Book written by Aberdeen-Angus Cattle Society and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The American Stage of To-day by : William Winter
Download or read book The American Stage of To-day written by William Winter and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
