Interrogating America through Theatre and Performance
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Interrogating America through Theatre and Performance

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Interrogating America through Theatre and Performance

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This collection of essays dissects American plays, movies and other performance types that examine America and its history and culture. From Amerindian stage performances to AIDS and post-9/11 America, it displays the various and important ways theatre and performance studies have examined and conversed with American culture and history.

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2016
ISBN
9780230100787
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Theatre History & Criticism

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of Illustrations
  8. Introduction: America Defined and Refined
  9. 1. The Savage Other: "Indianizing" and Performance in Nineteenth-Century American Culture
  10. 2. Defining Faith: Theatrical Reactions to Pro-Slavery Christianity in Antebellum America
  11. 3. Negotiating a New Identity: Irish Americans and the Variety Theatre in the 1860s
  12. 4. Drama and Cultural Pluralism in the America of Susan Glaspell's Inheritors
  13. 5. Beneath the Horizon: Pipe Dreams, Identity, and Capital in Eugene O'Neill's First Broadway Play
  14. 6. Vernacularizing Brecht: The Political Theatre of the New Deal
  15. 7. Let Freedom Ring: Mordecai Gorelik's Politicized Stage Designs
  16. 8. Choreographing America: Redefining American Ballet in the Age of Consensus
  17. 9. Arthur Miller: In Memoriam
  18. 10. Menageries, Melting Pots, Movies: Tennessee on America
  19. 11. Facts on Trial: Documentary Theatre and Zoot Suit
  20. 12. "The Ground on Which I Stand is I, too, Am America": African American Cycle Dramatists, Dramas, and the Voice of Inclusion
  21. 13. My Uncle Sam in Consumer Society: Len Jenkin and the Death of Death of a Salesman
  22. 14. From Paradise to Parasite: Information Theory, Noise, and Disequilibrium in John Guare's Six Degrees of Separation
  23. 15. Not "Very Steven Spielberg"?: Angels in America on Film
  24. 16. Reflections in a Pool: Mary Zimmerman's Metamorphoses and Post-9/11 New York City
  25. 17. An American Echo: Suzan-Lori Parks's The America Play and James Scruggs's Disposable Men
  26. List of Contributors
  27. Index