Format:
1 online resource (210 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781841509877
Content:
This original analysis of contemporary British pantomime addresses the question of how pantomime creates a unique interactive relationship with, and potentially transformative experience for, its audiences.British This is an accessible and valuable text that encourages readers to review their assumptions about pantomime and reconsider its importance as a popular theatre form
Note:
Front Cover -- Preliminary Pages -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Illustrations -- The Prologue: What's Behind Them? -- Money Matters -- Chaos and Disruption in Slapstick and Slosh Scenes -- Fantasy and Illusion in Design -- Familiarity and Nostalgia in an Oral Tradition -- Quests and Transformations in Pantomime Stories -- Playing with Distance in Pantoland -- Is She or Isn't He? Gender and Identity -- Audience Participation, Community and Ritual -- Topical Reference and the Unique Event -- Artifice and Excess in Pantomime Comedy -- Mixing Genres in Pantomime Music -- A Utopian Community of Dancers -- The Epilogue: What's Entertainment? -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover
Additional Edition:
Print version Taylor, Millie British Pantomime Performance Bristol : Intellect, Limited,c2007 ISBN 9781841501741
Language:
English
Keywords:
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