Theatre Culture And Temperance Reform In Nineteenth Century America

Author : John W. Frick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521817781
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theatre, Culture and Temperance Reform in Nineteenth-Century America written by John W. Frick and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-07-21 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the role of temperance drama in American theatre and compares the American genre to its British counterpart.

Author : Amy E. Hughes
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472118625
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spectacles of Reform written by Amy E. Hughes and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2012-12-17 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the nineteenth century, long before film and television brought us explosions, car chases, and narrow escapes, it was America's theaters that thrilled audiences, with “sensation scenes” of speeding trains, burning buildings, and endangered bodies, often in melodramas extolling the virtues of temperance, abolition, and women's suffrage. Amy E. Hughes scrutinizes these peculiar intersections of spectacle and reform, revealing the crucial role that spectacle has played in American activism and how it has remained central to the dramaturgy of reform. Hughes traces the cultural history of three famous sensation scenes—the drunkard with the delirium tremens, the fugitive slave escaping over a river, and the victim tied to the railroad tracks—assessing how these scenes conveyed, allayed, and denied concerns about the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. These images also appeared in printed propaganda, suggesting that the coup de théâtre was an essential part of American reform culture. Additionally, Hughes argues that today’s producers and advertisers continue to exploit the affective dynamism of spectacle, reaching an even broader audience through film, television, and the Internet. To be attuned to the dynamics of spectacle, Hughes argues, is to understand how we see. Her book will interest not only theater historians, but also scholars and students of political, literary, and visual culture who are curious about how U.S. citizens saw themselves and their world during a pivotal period in American history.

Author : John W. Frick
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137566450
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Uncle Tom's Cabin on the American Stage and Screen written by John W. Frick and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No play in the history of the American Stage has been as ubiquitous and as widely viewed as Uncle Tom's Cabin . This book traces the major dramatizations of Stowe's classic from its inception in 1852 through modern versions on film. Frick introduce the reader to the artists who created the plays and productions that created theatre history.

Author : Shauna Vey
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809334380
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Childhood and Nineteenth-Century American Theatre written by Shauna Vey and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2015-10-08 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This study of the daily work lives of five members of the Marsh Troupe, a nineteenth-century professional acting company composed primarily of children, sheds light on the construction of idealized childhood inside and outside the American theatre"--

Author : Jeffrey H. Richards
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199731497
Total Pages : 593 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of American Drama written by Jeffrey H. Richards and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the history of American drama from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. It describes origins of early republican drama and its evolution during the pre-war and post-war periods. It traces the emergence of different types of American drama including protest plays, reform drama, political drama, experimental drama, urban plays, feminist drama and realist plays. This volume also analyzes the works of some of the most notable American playwrights including Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, and Arthur Miller and those written by women dramatists.

Author : Bennett Zon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317092376
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Music and Performance Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain written by Bennett Zon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music and Performance Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Essays in Honour of Nicholas Temperley is the first book to focus upon aspects of performance in the broader context of nineteenth-century British musical culture. In four Parts, 'Musical Cultures', 'Societies', 'National Music' and 'Methods', this volume assesses the role music performance plays in articulating significant trends and currents of the cultural life of the period and includes articles on performance and individual instruments; orchestral and choral ensembles; church and synagogue music; music societies; cantatas; vocal albums; the middle-class salon, conducting; church music; and piano pedagogy. An introduction explores Temperley's vast contribution to musicology, highlighting his seminal importance in creating the field of nineteenth-century British music studies, and a bibliography provides an up-to-date list of his publications, including books and monographs, book chapters, journal articles, editions, reviews, critical editions, arrangements and compositions. Fittingly devoted to a significant element in Temperley's research, this book provides scholars of all nineteenth-century musical topics the opportunity to explore the richness of Britain's musical history.

Author : Amy E Hughes
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472028898
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spectacles of Reform written by Amy E Hughes and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2012-12-17 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the nineteenth century, long before film and television brought us explosions, car chases, and narrow escapes, it was America's theaters that thrilled audiences, with “sensation scenes” of speeding trains, burning buildings, and endangered bodies, often in melodramas extolling the virtues of temperance, abolition, and women's suffrage. Amy E. Hughes scrutinizes these peculiar intersections of spectacle and reform, revealing the crucial role that spectacle has played in American activism and how it has remained central to the dramaturgy of reform. Hughes traces the cultural history of three famous sensation scenes—the drunkard with the delirium tremens, the fugitive slave escaping over a river, and the victim tied to the railroad tracks—assessing how these scenes conveyed, allayed, and denied concerns about the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. These images also appeared in printed propaganda, suggesting that the coup de théâtre was an essential part of American reform culture. Additionally, Hughes argues that today’s producers and advertisers continue to exploit the affective dynamism of spectacle, reaching an even broader audience through film, television, and the Internet. To be attuned to the dynamics of spectacle, Hughes argues, is to understand how we see. Her book will interest not only theater historians, but also scholars and students of political, literary, and visual culture who are curious about how U.S. citizens saw themselves and their world during a pivotal period in American history.

Author : M. Scott Phillips
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817354573
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theatre Symposium, Vol. 15 written by M. Scott Phillips and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2007-09-23 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays gathered together in Volume 15 of the annual journal Theatre Symposium investigate how, historically, the theatre has been perceived both as a source of moral anxiety and as an instrument of moral and social reform. Essays consider, among other subjects, ethnographic depictions of the savage “other” in Buffalo Bill’s engagement at the Columbian Exposition of 1893; the so-called “Moral Reform Melodrama” in the nineteenth century; charity theatricals and the ways they negotiated standards of middle-class respectability; the figure of the courtesan as a barometer of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century moral and sexual discourse; Aphra Behn’s subversion of Restoration patriarchal sexual norms in The Feigned Courtesans; and the controversy surrounding one production of Tony Kushner Angels in America, during which officials at one of the nation’s more prominent liberal arts colleges attempted to censor the production, a chilling reminder that academic and artistic freedom cannot be taken for granted in today’s polarized moral and political atmosphere.

Author : Heather S. Nathans
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521870119
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slavery and Sentiment on the American Stage, 1787-1861 written by Heather S. Nathans and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-19 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For almost a hundred years before Uncle Tom's Cabin burst on to the scene in 1852, the American theatre struggled to represent the evils of slavery. Slavery and Sentiment examines how both black and white Americans used the theatre to fight negative stereotypes of African Americans in the United States.

Author : Michael D'Alessandro
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472133179
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Staged Readings written by Michael D'Alessandro and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2022-09-26 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How popular culture helped to create class in nineteenth-century America