Failure Fascism And Teachers In American Theatre

Author : James F. Wilson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783031340130

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Failure, Fascism, and Teachers in American Theatre by James F. Wilson Pdf

This timely and accessible book explores the shifting representations of schoolteachers and professors in plays and performances primarily from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in the United States. Examining various historical and recurring types, such as spinsters, schoolmarms, presumed sexual deviants, radicals and communists, fascists, and emasculated men teachers, Wilson shines the spotlight on both well-known and nearly-forgotten plays. The analysis draws on a range of scholars from cultural and gender studies, queer theory, and critical race discourses to consider teacher characters within notable education movements and periods of political upheaval. Richly illustrated, the book will appeal to theatre scholars and general readers as it delves into plays and performances that reflect cultural fears, desires, and fetishistic fantasies associated with educators. In the process, the scrutiny on the array of characters may help illuminate current attacks on real-life teachers while providing meaningful opportunities for intervention in the ongoing education wars.

Author : Joshua Polster
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317358732

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Stages of Engagement by Joshua Polster Pdf

Stages of Engagement is a compelling and wonderfully varied account of the relationship between theatre in the United States and the social, cultural, and political forces that shaped it during one of the most formative periods in the nation’s history. Joshua E. Polster applies key thematic perspectives – Colonialism, Religion, Race and Ethnicity, Gender and Sexuality, Economic Systems, and Systems of Government – to seminal moments in US history. In doing so he explores the ways in which the theatre has responded to these turning points, through the work of some of its principal dramatists, directors, designers, and theatre companies. His approach tackles questions such as: • How did the plays of this period reflect the nation’s concerns and anxieties? • How did theatre, culture, and politics interconnect as the United States took to the world stage? • Which critical viewpoints are most useful to us when examining these cultural phenomena? • How did performances and productions attempt to influence their audiences' social and civic engagement? On its own, or in tandem with its companion volume The Routledge Anthology of US Drama 1898–1949, this is the ideal text for any course in US Theatre. By examining each cultural moment from a range of critical perspectives and drawing upon a diverse range of sources, it is designed specifically for today’s interdisciplinary and multicultural curriculum.

Author : Susan C. W. Abbotson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350014626

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Modern American Drama: Playwriting in the 1950s by Susan C. W. Abbotson Pdf

The Decades of Modern American Drama series provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1930s to 2009 in eight volumes. Each volume equips readers with a detailed understanding of the context from which work emerged: an introduction considers life in the decade with a focus on domestic life and conditions, social changes, culture, media, technology, industry and political events; while a chapter on the theatre of the decade offers a wide-ranging and thorough survey of theatres, companies, dramatists, new movements and developments in response to the economic and political conditions of the day. The work of the four most prominent playwrights from the decade receives in-depth analysis and re-evaluation by a team of experts, together with commentary on their subsequent work and legacy. A final section brings together original documents such as interviews with the playwrights and with directors, drafts of play scenes, and other previously unpublished material. The major writers and their works to receive in-depth coverage in this volume include: * William Inge: Picnic (1953), Bus Stop (1955) and The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1957); * Stephen Sondheim, Arthur Laurents and Jerome Robbins: West Side Story (1957) and Gypsy (1959); * Alice Childress: Just a Little Simple (1950), Gold Through the Trees (1952) and Trouble in Mind (1955); * Jerome Lawrence and Robert Lee: Inherit the Wind (1955), Auntie Mame (1956) and The Gang's All Here (1959).

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Education
ISBN : OSU:32435030217210

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The American Teacher Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Gassner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 772 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Drama
ISBN : UCSD:31822001017599

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A Treasury of the Theatre: Modern drama from Oscar Wilde to Eugene Ionesco by John Gassner Pdf

Author : Dorothy Chansky
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781609383756

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Kitchen Sink Realisms by Dorothy Chansky Pdf

From 1918’s Tickless Time through Waiting for Lefty, Death of a Salesman, A Streetcar Named Desire, A Raisin in the Sun, and The Prisoner of Second Avenue to 2005’s The Clean House, domestic labor has figured largely on American stages. No dramatic genre has done more than the one often dismissively dubbed “kitchen sink realism” to both support and contest the idea that the home is naturally women’s sphere. But there is more to the genre than even its supporters suggest. In analyzing kitchen sink realisms, Dorothy Chansky reveals the ways that food preparation, domestic labor, dining, serving, entertaining, and cleanup saturate the lives of dramatic characters and situations even when they do not take center stage. Offering resistant readings that rely on close attention to the particular cultural and semiotic environments in which plays and their audiences operated, she sheds compelling light on the changing debates about women’s roles and the importance of their household labor across lines of class and race in the twentieth century. The story begins just after World War I, as more households were electrified and fewer middle-class housewives could afford to hire maids. In the 1920s, popular mainstream plays staged the plight of women seeking escape from the daily grind; African American playwrights, meanwhile, argued that housework was the least of women’s worries. Plays of the 1930s recognized housework as work to a greater degree than ever before, while during the war years domestic labor was predictably recruited to the war effort—sometimes with gender-bending results. In the famously quiescent and anxious 1950s, critiques of domestic normalcy became common, and African American maids gained a complexity previously reserved for white leading ladies. These critiques proliferated with the re-emergence of feminism as a political movement from the 1960s on. After the turn of the century, the problems and comforts of domestic labor in black and white took center stage. In highlighting these shifts, Chansky brings the real home.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Periodicals
ISBN : STANFORD:36105016964756

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American Theatre by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1936
Category : Dance
ISBN : IOWA:31858034134969

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New Theatre by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Comparative civilization
ISBN : UCSD:31822016060634

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Journal of American Culture by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 820 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Education
ISBN : MINN:30000004837526

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Resources in Education by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Dissertations, Academic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105121649136

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Dissertation Abstracts International by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Teachers' unions
ISBN : CORNELL:31924062247865

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The New York Teacher by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1943
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IOWA:31858011214792

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The Vertical File Service Catalog by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1944
Category : Filing systems
ISBN : OSU:32435031028905

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Vertical File Service Catalog by Anonim Pdf

Author : Steven H. Jaffe
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781479804603

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Activist New York by Steven H. Jaffe Pdf

Activist New York surveys New York City's long history of social activism from the 1650's to the 2010's. Bringing these passionate histories alive, Activist New York is a visual exploration of these movements, serving as a companion book to the highly-praised Museum of the City of New York exhibition of the same name. New York's primacy as a metropolis of commerce, finance, industry, media, and ethnic diversity has given it a unique and powerfully influential role in the history of American and global activism. Steven H. Jaffe explores how New York's evolving identities as an incubator and battleground for activists have made it a "machine for change." In responding to the city as a site of slavery, immigrant entry, labor conflicts, and wealth disparity, New Yorkers have repeatedly challenged the status quo. Activist New York brings to life the characters who make up these vibrant histories, including David Ruggles, an African American shopkeeper who helped enslaved fugitives on the city's Underground Railroad during the 1830s; Clara Lemlich, a Ukrainian Jewish immigrant who helped spark the 1909 "Uprising of 20,000" that forever changed labor relations in the city's booming garment industry; and Craig Rodwell, Karla Jay, and others who forged a Gay Liberation movement both before and after the Stonewall Riot of June 1969. Permanent exhibition: Puffin Foundation Gallery, Museum of the City of New York, USA.