UID:
almafu_9960119635202883
Format:
1 online resource (xii, 331 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
0-511-65942-3
Content:
Since the beginning of the nineteenth-century, many forms of theatre have been called 'popular', but in the twentieth-century the term 'popular drama' has taken on definite political overtones, often indicating a repudiation of 'commercial theatre'. Does this mean that political theatre is or tries to be more attractive to more people than commercial theatre? Does it conversely mean that commercial theatre has no political effects? The articles in this book were submitted as papers for a conference on the theme of 'popular' theatre, film and television. Contributions came from people with very different types of experience: from an ex-animal trainer to a lecturer in film studies; from playwrights, directors and actors to professional critics and academics. Each author focused on a particular problem of defining drama in performance, drawing together the conditions of performance, the types of audience and the political effects of the plays or films in question. The result was a series of fruitful connections and juxtapositions that shows the remarkable continuity of the problems raised in attempts to create a popular political drama.
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Feb 2016).
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Spectacle, performance and audience in nineteenth-century theatre:
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Introduction /
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Was Jerrold's Black ey'd Susan more popular than Wordsworth's Lucy? /
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Word and image in Pixérécourt's melodramas: the dramaturgy of the strip-cartoon /
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Joseph Bouchardy: a melodramatist and his public /
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The music of melodrama /
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Popular theatre in Victorian Birmingham /
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Water drama /
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Equestrian drama and the circus /
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Theatre of war: the Crimea on the London stage 1854-5 /
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Popular drama and the mummers' play /
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Politics and performance in twentieth-century drama and film:
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Introduction /
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Meyerhold and Eisenstein /
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Erwin Piscator's 1927 production of Hoppla, we're alive /
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Prolet Buehne: agit-prop in America /
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Workers' theatre 1926-36 /
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The October Group and theatre under the Front Populaire /
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Only the stars survive: disaster movies in the seventies /
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Problems and prospects:
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Introduction /
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The politics of the popular? -from melodrama to television /
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-28524-0
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-22755-0
Language:
English
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URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511659423
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