American Puppetry

Author : Phyllis T. Dircks
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2004-09-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0786418966

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American Puppetry by Phyllis T. Dircks Pdf

Puppetry has become a significant force in contemporary theatre and thousands of puppets from various cultures and time periods have been collected by scholars, enthusiasts, and curators, who wisely realized that these material images can teach us much about the societies for which they were created. This book consists of essays by the curators of the most significant puppet collections in the United States and by leading scholars in the field. In addition to the descriptive and analytical essays on the collections, the book includes an overview of American puppetry today, a history of puppetry in the United States, and essays on the theater of Julie Taymor, the Jim Henson Company, Howdy Doody's custody case, puppet conservation, and the development of virtual performance space. The fourteen collections discussed include those of the Smithsonian Institution, the Harvard University Theatre Collection, the Brander Matthews Collection at Columbia University, the American Museum of Natural History, and the Center for Puppetry Arts in Atlanta. Appendices provide a listing of additional puppetry collections and a filmography of puppetry at the New York Public Library Donnell Media Center. The work concludes with a bibliography and index and is illustrated with many beautiful photographs of puppeteers and puppets on display and in performance.

Author : John Bell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230613768

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American Puppet Modernism by John Bell Pdf

Please note this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title (PTO). Stock of this book requires shipment from an overseas supplier. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. This study analyses the history of puppet, mask, and performing object theatre in the United States over the past 150 years to understand how a peculiarly American mixture of global cultures, commercial theatre, modern-art idealism, and mechanical innovation reinvented the ancient art of puppetry.

Author : Ryan Howard
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2006-07-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786424337

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Paul McPharlin and the Puppet Theater by Ryan Howard Pdf

Paul McPharlin is one of the 20th century's most important contributors to the art of puppetry. Over a period of nine years he created some 20 productions with marionettes, rod puppets, hand puppets and shadow figures. He was also a prolific writer whose technical, theoretical and historical works contributed significantly to a puppetry revival. His book The Puppet Theatre in America is considered the definitive history of American puppetry. Though shy and aloof, McPharlin was also energetic. He had an ability to bring people together and used this knack to found a national puppetry organization, Puppeteers of America. Besides the author's extensive research on McPharlin and puppetry, the book draws on significant contributions from McPharlin's wife, puppeteer and author Marjorie Batchelder McPharlin, who allowed the use of her 18-year correspondence with Paul in the creation of the book. Chapters take the reader through McPharlin's childhood as a loner in Detroit, his maturation and education in New York, and his early, erratic and often unsuccessful attempts at making a living. His puppeteering years, 1929 to 1937, are detailed, as are the later years that saw him first working for the WPA and then being drafted into the army to serve in World War II at age 38. He continued making important contributions to the art of puppetry until a brain tumor took his life at age 45 in 1948. Appendices present two of McPharlin's plays, The Barn at Bethlehem: A Christmas Play and Punch's Circus. Another appendix details puppetry imprints, including yearbooks, plays, handbooks, worksheets and books. A fourth lists Paul McPharlin's Puppeteers, members of the Marionette Fellowship of Detroit.

Author : George Latshaw
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-30
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9780486156996

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The Complete Book of Puppetry by George Latshaw Pdf

Expert guide explains how to construct several types of puppets and presents exercises for developing distinctive voices, learning puppet movement. Includes stage design, writing plays, directing productions, more. Over 150 black-and-white illustrations.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : PediaPress
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Puppetry by Anonim Pdf

Author : Carol R. Exner
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2005-08-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780786415168

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Practical Puppetry A-Z by Carol R. Exner Pdf

Puppetry is an exciting, flexible, malleable art form that can engage the creative forces of children or adults. Puppets can not only tell a story, they can be used to enhance the curriculum, present an idea or a concept in a compelling way, or teach any number of necessary skills. Children and adults presenting a puppet play are given a sense of their own inventive power. This reference work offers an A to Z view of working with puppets. It covers everything from the basic strategies of advertising and marketing puppet productions, to assembling the puppets out of household materials such as paper bags, cereal boxes, or gloves, to the more elaborate sculpting of armatures. Stages, curtains and props are also discussed along with the history of puppetry. Numerous illustrations give a visual of many of the finished products. This work concludes with an annotated bibliography and index.

Author : Don Rubin,Carlos Solorzano
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136359217

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World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre by Don Rubin,Carlos Solorzano Pdf

This new in paperback edition of World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre covers the Americas, from Canada to Argentina, including the United States. Entries on twenty six countries are preceded by specialist introductions on Theatre in Post-Colonial Latin America, Theatres of North America, Puppet Theatre, Theatre for Young Audiences, Music Theatre and Dance Theatre. The essays follow the series format, allowing for cross-referring across subjects, both within the volume and between volumes. Each country entry is written by specialists in the particular country and the volume has its own teams of regional editors, overseen by the main editorial team based at the University of York in Canada headed by Don Rubin. Each entry covers all aspects of theatre genres, practitioners, writers, critics and styles, with bibliographies, over 200 black & white photographs and a substantial index. This Encyclopedia is indispensable for anyone interested in the cultures of the Americas or in modern theatre. It is also an invaluable reference tool for students and scholars of a wide range of disciplines including history, performance studies, anthropology and cultural studies.

Author : Alissa Mello,Claudia Orenstein,Cariad Astles
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781351848794

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Women and Puppetry by Alissa Mello,Claudia Orenstein,Cariad Astles Pdf

Women and Puppetry is the first publication dedicated to the study of women in the field of puppetry arts. It includes critical articles and personal accounts that interrogate specific historical moments, cultural contexts, and notions of "woman" on and off stage. Part I, "Critical Perspective," includes historical and contemporary analyses of women’s roles in society, gender anxiety revealed through the unmarked puppet body, and sexual expression within oppressive social contexts. Part II, "Local Contexts: Challenges and Transformations," investigates work of female practitioners within specific cultural contexts to illuminate how women are intervening in traditionally male spaces. Each chapter in Part II offers brief accounts of specific social histories, barriers, and gender biases that women have faced, and the opportunities afforded female creative leaders to appropriate, revive, and transform performance traditions. And in Part III, "Women Practitioners Speak," contemporary artists reflect on their experiences as female practitioners within the art of puppet theatre. Representing female writers and practitioners from across the globe, Women and Puppetry offers students and scholars a comprehensive interrogation of the challenges and opportunities that women face in this unique art form.

Author : Claudia Orenstein
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000918427

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Reading the Puppet Stage by Claudia Orenstein Pdf

Drawing on the author’s two decades of seeing, writing on, and teaching about puppetry from a critical perspective, this book offers a collection of insights into how we watch, understand, and appreciate puppetry. Reading the Puppet Stage uses examples from a broad range of puppetry genres, from Broadway shows and the Muppets to the rich field of international contemporary performing object experimentation to the wealth of Asian puppet traditions, as it illustrates the ways performing objects can create and structure meaning and the dramaturgical interplay between puppets, performers, and language onstage. An introductory approach for students, critics, and artists, this book underlines where significant artistic concerns lie in puppetry and outlines the supportive networks and resources that shape the community of those who make, watch, and love this ever-developing art.

Author : Edited by Matthew Bernier and Judith O'Hare
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2005-12-29
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781452057491

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Puppetry in Education and Therapy by Edited by Matthew Bernier and Judith O'Hare Pdf

In Puppetry in Education and Therapy: Unlocking Doors to the Mind and Heart, one finds enormous variety, ingenuity, and creativity in the types of puppets, and the ways they are used in education and in therapy. Puppeteers, therapists, and educators, articulate what is meant by “puppetry in education” and “puppet therapy” and how it is the same or different from “puppet theatre”. They describe the unique characteristics and theory of puppetry in education and therapy, the skills it takes to be successful in these areas, the skills that are passed on to people who use puppets for personal expression, and how to assess the impact of puppets on learning or behavior change. Twenty-six authors discuss topics such as puppetry and the multiple intelligences; the process versus the product; using puppetry in schools to promote literacy, preserve cultural heritage, and teach music; how puppetry contributes to Core Curriculum Standards, the theoretical underpinnings of therapeutic puppetry, and a range of ways of facilitating growth and development. If you’re already using puppets, this book will inspire you to understand your work differently and to explore new possibilities. If you’re a teacher or a therapist and you’ve never used puppets before, it will open a whole world of possibilities. This book illustrates that puppetry arts can affect learning and behavior and that puppets indeed have the power to unlock doors to the mind and heart.

Author : Jo Ann Cavallo
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781839987656

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The Sicilian Puppet Theater of Agrippino Manteo (1884-1947) by Jo Ann Cavallo Pdf

Sicilian puppet theater was the predominant form of cultural expression for working-class southern Italians and Sicilians from the early 1800s until the proliferation of television in the 1950s. This form of dramatic prose theater also flourished in diasporic Italian urban communities, bringing immigrants together for nightly performances of the same deeply cherished chivalric stories. Agrippino Manteo’s scripts, examined for the first time in this study, are testimony to the rich substance of the Paladins of France narratives dramatized on the traditional opera dei pupi stage. Even beyond their historical and aesthetic value, the alternating episodes of love, enchantment, adventure, and warfare invite us to relive the passion, heartbreak, excitement, and magic of knights and damsels from around the globe – from Europe to North Africa to East Asia – who share the stage with a host of wizards, fairies, giants, and monsters. This study reconstructs the history of the Manteo family marionette theater in New York City across seven decades and three generations, provides translations of eight selected plays and 270 extant summaries, and offers comparative analyses uncovering the creative process of adaptation from Italian Renaissance masterpieces of chivalric poetry to nineteenth-century prose compilations to Agrippino Manteo’s opera dei pupi dramatizations.

Author : Dassia N. Posner,Claudia Orenstein,John Bell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317911722

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The Routledge Companion to Puppetry and Material Performance by Dassia N. Posner,Claudia Orenstein,John Bell Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Puppetry and Material Performance offers a wide-ranging perspective on how scholars and artists are currently re-evaluating the theoretical, historical, and theatrical significance of performance that embraces the agency of inanimate objects. This book proposes a collaborative, responsive model for broader artistic engagement in and with the material world. Its 28 chapters aim to advance the study of the puppet not only as a theatrical object but also as a vibrant artistic and scholarly discipline. This Companion looks at puppetry and material performance from six perspectives: theoretical approaches to the puppet, perspectives from practitioners, revisiting history, negotiating tradition, material performances in contemporary theatre, and hybrid forms. Its wide range of topics, which span 15 countries over five continents, encompasses: • visual dramaturgy • theatrical juxtapositions of robots and humans • contemporary transformations of Indonesian wayang kulit • Japanese ritual body substitutes • recent European productions featuring toys, clay, and food. The book features newly commissioned essays by leading scholars such as Matthew Isaac Cohen, Kathy Foley, Jane Marie Law, Eleanor Margolies, Cody Poulton, and Jane Taylor. It also celebrates the vital link between puppetry as a discipline and as a creative practice with chapters by active practitioners, including Handspring Puppet Company’s Basil Jones, Redmoon’s Jim Lasko, and Bread and Puppet’s Peter Schumann. Fully illustrated with more than 60 images, this volume comprises the most expansive English-language collection of international puppetry scholarship to date.

Author : Vít Hořejš,William Keyes,Milan Knížák
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Puppet theater
ISBN : 1886406006

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Czechoslovak-American Puppetry by Vít Hořejš,William Keyes,Milan Knížák Pdf

Author : David Currell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : UGA:32108005309276

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The Complete Book of Puppetry by David Currell Pdf

Introduces the history of puppetry and gives instructions for making various of puppets, creating stage sets, and producing plays.

Author : Paul McPharlin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1936
Category : Puppet plays
ISBN : STANFORD:36105047826438

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Puppets in America, 1739 to Today by Paul McPharlin Pdf