Shattering Hamlet's Mirror

Shattering Hamlet's Mirror
Author: Marvin Carlson
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 157
Release: 2016-05-12
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0472119850

Exploring the historical antecedents and mimetic dimensions of "Theater of the Real"

New Serial Titles

New Serial Titles
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Total Pages: 1608
Release: 1996
Genre: Periodicals
ISBN:

A union list of serials commencing publication after Dec. 31, 1949.

Vaudeville and the Making of Modern Entertainment, 1890–1925

Vaudeville and the Making of Modern Entertainment, 1890–1925
Author: David Monod
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2020-09-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 1469660563

Today, vaudeville is imagined as a parade of slapstick comedians, blackface shouters, coyly revealed knees, and second-rate acrobats. But vaudeville was also America's most popular commercial amusement from the mid-1890s to the First World War; at its peak, 5 million Americans attended vaudeville shows every week. Telling the story of this pioneering art form's rise and decline, David Monod looks through the apparent carnival of vaudeville performance and asks: what made the theater so popular and transformative? Although he acknowledges its quirkiness, Monod makes the case that vaudeville became so popular because it offered audiences a guide to a modern urban lifestyle. Vaudeville acts celebrated sharp city styles and denigrated old-fashioned habits, showcased new music and dance moves, and promulgated a deeply influential vernacular modernism. The variety show's off-the-rack trendiness perfectly suited an era when goods and services were becoming more affordable and the mass market promised to democratize style, offering a clear vision of how the quintessential twentieth-century citizen should look, talk, move, feel, and act.