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  • Bloody Tyrants and Little Pickles

    Stage Roles of Anglo-American Girls in the Nineteenth Century

    Series series Studies Theatre Hist & Culture
    Bloody Tyrants and Little Pickles traces the theatrical repertoire of a small group of white Anglo-American actresses as they reshaped the meanings of girlhood in Britain, North America, and the British West Indies during the first half of the nineteenth century. It is a study of the possibilities and the problems girl performers presented as they adopted the manners and clothing of boys, entered ... Leer más

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  • Performing Objects and Theatrical Things

    This book rethinks historical and contemporary theatre, performance, and cultural events by scrutinizing and theorizing the objects and things that activate stages, venues, environments, and archives. ... Leer más

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  • When Broadway Was the Runway

    Theater, Fashion, and American Culture

    Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleWhen Broadway Was the Runway explores the central and largely unacknowledged role of commercial Broadway theater in the birth of modern American fashion and consumer culture. Long before Hollywood's red carpet spectacles, Broadway theater introduced American women to the latest styles. At the beginning of the twentieth century, theater ... Leer más

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  • Performance Studies in Canada

    Edición de Laura Levin, Marlis Schweitzer ...
    Since its inception as an institutionalized discipline in the United States during the 1980s, performance studies has focused on the interdisciplinary analysis of a broad spectrum of cultural behaviours including theatre, dance, folklore, popular entertainments, performance art, protests, cultural rituals, and the performance of self in everyday life. Performance Studies in Canada brings together ... Leer más

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  • Flapper

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    Culture, Coordination, and Common Knowledge

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  • Outlaw Marriages

    The Hidden Histories of Fifteen Extraordinary Same-Sex Couples

    For more than a century before gay marriage became a hot-button political issue, same-sex unions flourished in America. Pairs of men and pairs of women joined together in committed unions, standing by each other “for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health” for periods of thirty or forty—sometimes as many as fifty—years. In short, they loved and supported each other every bit as much as any ... Leer más

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  • Public Art

    Theory, Practice and Populism

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  • Arts of Engagement

    Taking Aesthetic Action In and Beyond the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada

    Edición de Dylan Robinson, Keavy Martin ...
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    Arts of Engagement focuses on the role that music, film, visual art, and Indigenous cultural practices play in and beyond Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Indian Residential Schools. Contributors here examine the impact of aesthetic and sensory experience in residential school history, at TRC national and community events, and in artwork and exhibitions not affiliated with the TRC. ... Leer más

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  • Norman Rockwell

    Norman Rockwell’s tremendously successful, prolific career as a painter and illustrator has rendered him a twentieth-century American icon. However, the very popularity and accessibility of his idealized, nostalgic depictions of middleclass life have caused him to be considered not a serious artist but a “mere illustrator”–a disparagement only reinforced by the hundreds of memorable covers he drew ... Leer más

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