Interrogating America through Theatre and Performance

, by Demastes, William W.; Fischer, Iris Smith

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ISBN: 9780230619012 | 0230619010
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Copyright: 9/15/2009

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This collection brings together a diverse group of essays dissecting American plays, movies, theatre productions, and other performance types that examine American history and culture.

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List of Illustrations	p. ix
Introduction: America Defined and Refined	p. 1
The Savage Other: "Indianizing" and Performance in Nineteenth-Century American Culture	p. 11
Defining Faith: Theatrical Reactions to Pro-Slavery Christianity in Antebellum America	p. 29
Negotiating a New Identity: Irish Americans and the Variety Theatre in the 1860s	p. 47
Drama and Cultural Pluralism in the America of Susan Glaspell's Inheritors	p. 65
Beneath the Horizon: Pipe Dreams, Identity, and Capital in Eugene O'Neill's First Broadway Play	p. 81
Vernacularizing Brecht: The Political Theatre of the New Deal	p. 101
Let Freedom Ring: Mordecai Gorelik's Politicized Stage Designs	p. 121
Choreographing America: Redefining American Ballet in the Age of Consensus	p. 139
Arthur Miller: In Memoriam	p. 157
Menageries, Melting Pots, Movies: Tennessee on America	p. 165
Facts on Trial: Documentary Theatre and Zoot Suit	p. 181
"The Ground on Which I Stand is I, too, Am America": African American Cycle Dramatists, Dramas, and the Voice of Inclusion	p. 199
My Uncle Sam in Consumer Society: Len Jenkin and the Death of Death of a Salesman	p. 217
From Paradise to Parasite: Information Theory, Noise, and Disequilibrium in John Guare's: Six Degrees of Separation	p. 233
Not "Very Steven Spielberg"?: Angels in America on Film	p. 243
Reflections in a Pool: Mary Zimmerman's Metamorphoses and Post-9/11 New York City	p. 257
An American Echo: Suzan-Lori Parks's The America Play and James Scruggs's Disposable Men	p. 271
List of Contributors	p. 291
Index	p. 295
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Interrogating America through Theatre and Performance

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