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. INDICE: The Savage Other: 'Indianizing' and Performance in Nineteenth-Century American Culture; R.K.Bank Defining Faith: Theatrical Reactions to Pro-Slavery Christianity in Antebellum America; A.E.Hughes Negotiating a New Identity: Irish-Americans and the Variety Theatre in the 1860s; S.Kattwinkel Drama andCultural Pluralism In the America of Susan Glaspell's Inheritors; N.Hernando Real Beneath the Horizon: Pipe Dreams, Identity, and Capital in Eugene O'Neill's First Broadway Play; J.E.Jenkins Vernacularizing Brecht: The Political Theater of the New Deal; I.Saal Let Freedom Ring: Mordecai Gorelik's Politicized Stage Designs; A.Fletcher Choreographing America: Re-defining American Ballet in the Age of Consensus; A.Harris Arthur Miller: In Memoriam; C.Bigsby Menageries, Melting Pots, Movies: Tennessee on America; J.V.Haedicke Facts on Trial: Documentary Theatre and Zoot Suit; J.O'Connor 'The Ground on Which I Stand is I, Too, Am America': African American Cycle Dramatists, Dramas and the Voice ofInclusion; L.Menson-Furr My Uncle Sam in Consumer Society: Len Jenkin and theDeath of Death of a Salesman; S.Feffer From Paradise to Parasite: InformationTheory, Noise, and Disequilibrium in John Guare's Six Degrees of Separation; M.Vanden Heuvel 'Not Very Steven Spielberg'?: Angels in America on Film; D.R.Geis Reflections in a Pool: Mary Zimmerman's Metamorphoses and post-9/11 New York City; A.Nouryeh An American Echo: Suzan-Lori Parks's The America Play and James Scruggs's Disposable Men; R.Vorlicky
- ISBN: 978-0-230-61901-2
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 320
- Fecha Publicación: 18/11/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés