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Theatre has long been an art form of subterfuge and concealment. Working in the Wings: New Perspectives on Theatre History and Labor, edited by Elizabeth A. Osborne and Christine Woodworth, brings attention to what goes on behind the scenes, challenging, and revising our understanding of work, theat...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Woodworth, Christine (Editor ), Osborne, Elizabeth A., 1977- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2015.
©2015
Colección:Theater in the Americas.
Temas:
Theater > Production and direction > United States > History.
Theater > United States > History.
Théâtre > Production et mise en scène > États-Unis > Histoire.
Théâtre > États-Unis > Histoire.
PERFORMING ARTS > Theater > General.
PERFORMING ARTS > Theater > History & Criticism.
Theater
Theater > Production and direction
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations and Table
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: The Work of Play in Performance
  • Part One
  • Working Conditions
  • 1. Driving Race Work: The UAW, Detroit, and Discrimination for Everybody!
  • 2. Working Together: The Partnership of Les Waters and Annie Smart
  • 3. Advertising and the Commercial Spirit: Cataloging Nineteenth-Century Scenic Studio Practices
  • 4. Don't Quit Your Day Job: Situating Extratheatrical Employment in the Performance Archive
  • Part Two
  • Inscription, Erasure, and Recovery: Palimpsests of Labor
  • 5. Retooling the Kitchen Sink: Representing Domestic Labor in American Performance after 1963
  • 6. Beaten, Battered, and Brawny: American Variety Entertainers and the Working-Class Body
  • 7. Hidden in Plain Sight: Recovering the Federal Theatre Project's Caravan Theatre
  • 8. African American Waiters and Cakewalk Contests in Florida East Coast Resorts of the Gilded Age
  • Part Three
  • Myth, Memory, and Manifestation: The Work of the Public Mind
  • 9. Dion Boucicault's The Octoroon and the Work of Republicanism
  • 10. Myth Made Manifest: Labor, Landscape, and the First Washington Theatre
  • 11. Labor, Theatre, and the Dream of the White City
  • Part Four
  • The Creative Work / The Work of Creation
  • 12. Blue-Collar Bard: Recalling Shakespeare through the Rhetoric of Labor
  • 13. Songs of Salaried Warriors: Copyright, Intellectual Property, and John Philip Sousa's The Free Lance
  • 14. Working on a Masterpiece: Rinde Eckert's And God Created Great Whales
  • Conclusion: Waiting in the Wings-Work
  • Contributors
  • Index.

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