Women in American Theatre
| Author | : Helen Krich Chinoy |
| Publisher | : Theatre Communications Grou |
| Total Pages | : 602 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 9781559362634 |
First full-scale revision since 1987.
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Women in the American Theatre
| Author | : Faye E. Dudden |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 278 |
| Release | : 1994-01-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780300070583 |
Through a series of biographical sketches of female performers and managers, Dudden provides a discussion of the conflicted messages conveyed by the early theatre about what it meant to be a woman. It both showed women as sex objects and provided opportunities for careers.
American Women Theatre Critics
| Author | : Alma J. Bennett |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 195 |
| Release | : 2014-01-10 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 0786460253 |
While the history of American theatre has been widely documented, the history of its female reviewers has been routinely overlooked. This book seeks to correct that oversight by exploring the role of the great female American critics, thereby expanding their canonical status. The anthology provides a brief description of the women's lives, their working conditions, samples of their writing, and supporting analyses. For some readers, this will be a first encounter with women who deserve to be represented in the American theatre of their times and recognized for their contributions to the development of dramatic theory and criticism.
Horrible Prettiness
| Author | : Robert Allen |
| Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
| Total Pages | : 369 |
| Release | : 2000-11-09 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0807860085 |
Robert Allen's compelling book examines burlesque not only as popular entertainment but also as a complex and transforming cultural phenomenon. When Lydia Thompson and her controversial female troupe of "British Blondes" brought modern burlesque to the United States in 1868, the result was electric. Their impertinent humor, streetwise manner, and provocative parodies of masculinity brought them enormous popular success--and the condemnation of critics, cultural commentators, and even women's rights campaigners. Burlesque was a cultural threat, Allen argues, because it inverted the "normal" world of middle-class social relations and transgressed norms of "proper" feminine behavior and appearance. Initially playing to respectable middle-class audiences, burlesque was quickly relegated to the shadow-world of working-class male leisure. In this process the burlesque performer "lost" her voice, as burlesque increasingly revolved around the display of her body. Locating burlesque within the context of both the social transformation of American theater and its patterns of gender representation, Allen concludes that burlesque represents a fascinating example of the potential transgressiveness of popular entertainment forms, as well as the strategies by which they have been contained and their threats defused.
The Routledge Anthology of Women's Theatre Theory and Dramatic Criticism
| Author | : Catherine Burroughs |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 745 |
| Release | : 2023-09-29 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1000815986 |
The Routledge Anthology of Women's Theatre Theory and Dramatic Criticism is the first wide-ranging anthology of theatre theory and dramatic criticism by women writers. Reproducing key primary documents contextualized by short essays, the collection situates women’s writing within, and also reframes the field’s male-defined and male-dominated traditions. Its collection of documents demonstrates women’s consistent and wide-ranging engagement with writing about theatre and performance and offers a more expansive understanding of the forms and locations of such theoretical and critical writing, dealing with materials that often lie outside established production and publication venues. This alternative tradition of theatre writing that emerges allows contemporary readers to form new ways of conceptualizing the field, bringing to the fore a long-neglected, vibrant, intelligent, deeply informed, and expanded canon that generates a new era of scholarship, learning, and artistry. The Routledge Anthology of Women's Theatrical Theory and Dramatic Criticism is an important intervention into the fields of Theatre and Performance Studies, Literary Studies, and Cultural History, while adding new dimensions to Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies.
A Sourcebook on Feminist Theatre and Performance
| Author | : Carol Martin |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 336 |
| Release | : 2002-09-11 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1134844239 |
This work is a unique collection of key articles on feminist theatre and performance form The Drama Review (TDR). Carol Martin juxtaposes theory and practice to provide an exceptionally comprehensive overview of the development of feminist theatre. This outstanding collection includes key texts by theorists such as Elin Diamond, Peggy Phelan and Lynda Hart and interviews with practitioners including Anna Deveare Smith and Robbie McCauley. It also contains full performances texts by two of the most influential and controversial practiitioners of feminist theatre: Dress Suits to Hire by Holly Hughes and The Constant State of Desire by Karen Finley. A Sourcebook on Feminist Theatre and Performance is an essential purchase for students of theatre studies, performance studies and women's theatre.
Pin-Up Grrrls
| Author | : Maria Elena Buszek |
| Publisher | : Duke University Press |
| Total Pages | : 464 |
| Release | : 2006-05-31 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 9780822337461 |
DIVA visual history about how feminist artists have appropriated and incorporated the signification of the pin-up genre within their own work./div
Victorian Women and the Theatre of Trance
| Author | : Amy Lehman |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 213 |
| Release | : 2014-01-10 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 0786454717 |
Spiritualists in the nineteenth century spoke of the "Borderland," a shadowy threshold where the living communed with the dead, and where those in the material realm could receive comfort or advice from another world. The skilled performances of mostly female actors and performers made the "Borderland" a theatre, of sorts, in which dramas of revelation and recognition were produced in the forms of seances, trances, and spiritualist lectures. This book examines some of the most fascinating American and British actresses of the Victorian era, whose performances fairly mesmerized their audiences of amused skeptics and ardent believers. It also focuses on the transformative possibilities of the spiritualist theatre, revealing how the performances allowed Victorian women to speak, act, and create outside the boundaries of their restricted social and psychological roles.
Expressionism and Modernism in the American Theatre
| Author | : Julia A. Walker |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 314 |
| Release | : 2005-06-30 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 1139446274 |
Although often dismissed as a minor offshoot of the better-known German movement, expressionism on the American stage represents a critical phase in the development of American dramatic modernism. Situating expressionism within the context of early twentieth-century American culture, Walker demonstrates how playwrights who wrote in this mode were responding both to new communications technologies and to the perceived threat they posed to the embodied act of meaning. At a time when mute bodies gesticulated on the silver screen, ghostly voices emanated from tin horns, and inked words stamped out the personality of the hand that composed them, expressionist playwrights began to represent these new cultural experiences by disarticulating the theatrical languages of bodies, voices and words. In doing so, they not only innovated a new dramatic form, but redefined playwriting from a theatrical craft to a literary art form, heralding the birth of American dramatic modernism.
