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Performing Consumers is an exploration of the way in which brands insinuate themselves into the lives of ordinary people who encounter them at branded superstores. Looking at our performative desire to 'try on' otherness, Maurya Wickstrom employs five American brandscapes to serve as case studies: Ralph Lauren; Niketown; American Girl Place; Disney store and The Lion King; and The Forum Shops at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas. In this post-product era, each builds for the performer/consumer an in...

This unique anthology presents the important historical essays on tragedy, ranging from antiquity to the present, divided into historical periods and arranged chronologically. Across its span, it traces the development of theories and philosophies of tragedy, enabling readers to consider the ways in which different varieties of environmentalist, feminist, leftist and postcolonial thought have transformed the status of tragedy, and the idea of the tragic, for recent generations of artists, criti...

Samuel Beckett’s Legacies in American Fiction provides an overdue investigation into Beckett’s rich influences over American writing. Through in-depth readings of postmodern authors such as Robert Coover, Donald Barthelme, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, Paul Auster and Lydia Davis, this book situates Beckett’s post-war writing of exhaustion and generation in relation to the emergence of an explosive American avant-garde. In turn, this study provides a valuable insight into the practical realities...

Each book in 'The Great Broadway Musicals Series' takes you behind the scenes of the original production of these classics of Broadway, composers, song writers and actors.

Between the 1890s and the 1930s, advancements in communication and travel encouraged widespread international cultural exchange, and Americans increasingly came into contact with Russian culture and theatrical performance. A number of factors, including emigration from Russia, world war, revolutionary activities in both Russia and the United States, and developments in modernism in the American theatre influenced the way those performances were received by American artists and audiences. Examini...

El presente libro analiza el papel de las mujeres realizadoras en la Historia del Cine tomando como punto de partida la obra de algunas de ellas, como Maria Luisa Bemberg, Anahi Berneri, Iciar Bollain, Albertina Carri, Maria Canas, Isabel Coixet, Hilda Hidalgo, Susana Koska, Claudia Llosa, Lucrecia Martel, Maria Novaro o Helena Taberna. Se tiene en cuenta el hecho de que a partir de los anos 90 se constata, tanto en el cine espanol como latinoamericano, una destacada presencia de directoras, cuy...

Much recent contemporary fiction by women has appropriated and adapted themes and plot structures found in Shakespearean drama. Julie Sanders examines an international spread of such texts, considering novels by authors from the UK, USA, Canada, South Africa and Australia, whose stories are set in locations covering the globe. During this investigation she considers environmental theory, the Hollywood and Bollywood film industries, detective fiction, children's literature, and the politics of po...

On April 5, 1917, Three Plays for a Negro Theater by Ridgely Torrence opened at the Garden Theatre in New York City. This performance was a monumental event in American stage history. Not only was this the first dramatic production to portray African American life beyond the cliche, it was also the first production on Broadway to feature an all-black cast. The morning after the three plays were performed, newspapers were filled with praise for the cast, crew, and playwright. Despite such early c...

In this book, Elisabeth H. Kinsley weaves the stories of racially and ethnically distinct Shakespeare theatre scenes in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Manhattan into a single cultural history, revealing how these communities interacted with one another and how their work influenced ideas about race and belonging in the United States during a time of unprecedented immigration. As Progressive Era reformers touted the works of Shakespeare as an "antidote" to the linguistic and cultur...

This is a collection of new essays by leading Western specialists on Russian drama and theatre during the first three decades of this century. At this time Russian directors and dramatists were at the forefront of world theatrical experiments, and many of the problems which they faced have since taken on wider significance throughout the world of theatre. The collection is edited by two lecturers in Russian, both of whom have previously published books on Soviet literature.

Le succes retentissant du drame de chevalerie dans les pays de langue allemande a la fin du XVIIIe et au debut du XIXe siecle n'a pas valu a ce -genre-, de la part des chercheurs, l'interet qu'il merite. S'appuyant sur une meilleure circonscription quantitative de ce type dramatique et sur un corpus de reference elargi, la presente etude invalide les theses elaborees a partir d'un materiau fragmentaire. Point de convergence de questions d'esthetique et de realites historiques et politiques, le...

That mysterious characteristic "It" - "the easily perceived but hard-to-define quality possessed by abnormally interesting people" - is the subject of Joseph R. Roach's engrossing new book. As he did in the prizewinning "Cities of the Dead", Roach crisscrosses centuries and continents with a deep playfulness that entertains while it enlightens. Roach traces the origins of "It" back to the period following the Restoration, persuasively linking the sex appeal of today's celebrity figures with thos...