Author: Thomas Strychacz
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Keywords: masculinity, theaters, hemingway
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 2003-11
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0807129062
ISBN-13: 9780807129067
Author: Jennifer Fay
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Keywords: postwar, germany, reeducation, hollywood, occupation, theaters
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2008-03-06
List price: $22.50
ISBN-10: 0816647453
ISBN-13: 9780816647453
In the aftermath of total war and unconditional surrender, Germans found themselves receiving instruction from their American occupiers. It was not a conventional education. In their effort to transform German national identity and convert a Nazi past into a democratic future, the Americans deployed what they perceived as the most powerful and convincing weapon-movies. In a rigorous analysis of the American occupation of postwar Germany and the military’s use of “soft power,” Jennifer Fay considers how Hollywood films, including Ninotchka, Gaslight, and Stagecoach, influenced German
Author: Kerry Segrave
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Keywords: inception, history, theaters, drive
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2006-04-07
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0786426306
ISBN-13: 9780786426300
A primarily American institution (though it appeared in other countries such as Japan and Italy), the drive-in theater now sits on the verge of extinction. During its heyday, drive-ins could be found in communities both large and small. Some of the larger theaters held up to 3,000 cars and were often filled to capacity on weekends. The history of the drive-in from its beginnings in the 1930s through its heyday in the 1940s and 1950s to its gradual demise in modern-day America is thoroughly documented here: the patent battles, community concerns with morality (on-screen and off), technologi
Author: Jordan D. Marche II
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Keywords: planetaria, american, space, time, theaters
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2005-06-08
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 081353576X
ISBN-13: 9780813535760
"Marché carefully shows how local and national interests produced the first five major American planetarium theaters—in Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, New York, and Pittsburgh—as well as hundreds of smaller ones—in Pennsylvania schools and in other locations around the country. The millions of people who have found education or entertainment in a planetarium will find great background reading in Theaters of Time and Space!"—Dr. Marvin Bolt, director, history of astronomy department, Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum, Chicago"A timely and valuable contribution to our unders
Authors:James M. Harding, Cindy Rosenthal,
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Keywords: legacies, theaters, radical, sixties, restaging
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2006-12-19
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0472069543
ISBN-13: 9780472069545
In the volatile period of the late sixties and early seventies, several theater groups came to prominence in the United States, informing and shaping activist theater as we know it today. Restaging the Sixties examines the artistry, politics, and legacies of eight radical collectives: the Living Theatre, the Open Theatre, the Performance Group, the San Francisco Mime Troupe, El Teatro Campesino, At the Foot of the Mountain, the Free Southern Theater, and Bread and Puppet Theater. Each of the specially commissioned essays is from a leading theater artist, critic, or scholar. The essays follow a
Authors:Ross Melnick, Andreas Fuchs,
Publisher: MBI
Keywords: movie, theaters, classic, new, treasures, cinema
Number of Pages: 204
Published: 2004-10-15
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0760314926
ISBN-13: 9780760314920
For more than a century, movie theaters have provided the physical setting where motion pictures have delighted and transported audiences. While enough books about film, filmmakers, and movie stars have been written to wrap around the equator, the story behind the movie theaters – the buildings themselves - and the manner in which industrial, social, and artistic trends have informed its evolution has remained largely ignored. Cinema Treasures is an ambitious and marvelously illustrated history of the American movie theater from the early nickelodeons through today’s state-of-the-art megap
Speaking in Other Voices: An Ethnography of Walloon Puppet Theaters (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series)
Author: G. Tucker Childs
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub Co
Keywords: pragmatics, amp, new, series, theaters, puppet, voices, ethnography, walloon, speaking
Number of Pages: 285
Published: 2003-12-19
List price: $188.00
ISBN-10: 902725110X
ISBN-13: 9789027251107
Representing others is the occupation of both anthropologists and puppeteers, though their end results differ. Both observe human interaction and represent some version of it to an audience. The puppeteer’s representation takes the form of an orally presented puppet show while the anthropologist produces a written ethnography. At the base of the puppeteer’s oral presentation, however, are written texts while at the base of ethnographies are spoken words. This text examines the social construction of puppeteers at a short-lived puppetry school, as the young puppeteers learn how to t
