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Dreaming America : popular front ideals and aesthetics in children's plays of the Federal Theatre Project /

This book traces how the tumultuous politics of the late 1930s shaped the stories and staging of federally funded plays for children. Indeed, children’s theater was central to the Federal Theatre Project’s vision of building a national theater. The author argues that representations of the child and...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Frost, Leslie Elaine
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2013]
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505 0 |a Introduction : children's theatre of a people's theatre -- Federal Theatre Project dreams : raising up an educated audience for a permanent American national theatre -- "We should have called it Rumplestiltskin" : a labor fairy tale gets real in The Revolt of the Beavers -- "I looked him right square in the eye" : being African American in The Story of Little Black Sambo -- "Shadows your thoughts are marching" : anti-fascism and home-front patriotism in Federal Theatre's A Letter to Santa Claus and Hollywood's The Little Princess -- Wishing on a star : Pinocchio's journey from the Federal stage to Disney's world -- Conclusion : death of a dream. 
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