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Imitation Artist : Gertrude Hoffmann's Life in Vaudeville and Dance /
"Imitation Artist: Gertrude Hoffmann's Life in Vaudeville and Dance is the first book-length study of Gertrude Hoffmann's long and influential career as a performer and producer. Hoffmann made her name in the early twentieth century as an imitator, copying highbrow performances from E...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Evanston, Illinois :
Northwestern University Press,
2020.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- PART I. Learning how to copy, 1883-1906. 1. A ballet girl in San Francisco
- 2. Teaming up with Max Hoffmann
- 3. A woman stage manager
- PART II. Solo imitations, 1906-1909. 4. Imitative caricatures
- 5. Women's rivalry and copyright
- 6. A vision of Salome
- PART III. Producing revues, 1910-1914. 7. Gertrude Hoffmann's reviews
- 8. Pirating the Ballets Russes
- 9. Mainstream modernism
- 10. All-American artist
- PART IV. New directions, 1914-1923. 11. Grecian dance, pantomime, and silent film
- 12. Snake acts and other wartime spectacles
- 13. Just drifting
- 14. From advanced vaudeville to cabaret
- PART V. Offstage, 1923-1966. 15. The Gertrude Hoffmann Girls, at home and abroad
- 16. Modern dance and floor shows
- 17. Remembering
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Selected bibliography
- Index.