Stage Women 1900 50 Female Theatre Workers And Professional Practice

Author : MAGGIE B. GALE; KATE DORNEY.,Maggie B. Gale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1526136864

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Stage Women, 1900--50: Female Theatre Workers and Professional Practice by MAGGIE B. GALE; KATE DORNEY.,Maggie B. Gale Pdf

This book presents cutting-edge historical and cultural essays in the field of women, theatre and performance. It explore women's networks of professional practice in the performance industries between 1900 and 1950, with a focus on women's sense and experience of professional agency in an industry largely controlled by men.

Author : Maggie B. Gale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1526147270

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Stage women, 1900-50 by Maggie B. Gale Pdf

Stage women, 1900-50 explores the many ways in which women conceptualised, constructed and participated in networks of professional practice in the theatre and performance industries between 1900 and 1950. A timely volume full of original research, the book explores women's complex negotiations of their agency over both their labour and public representation, and their use of personal and professional networks to sustain their careers. Including a series of case studies that explore a range of well-known and lesser-known women working in theatre, film and popular performance of the period. The volume is divided into two connected parts. 'Female theatre workers in the social and theatrical realm' looks at the relationship between women's work - on- and offstage - and autobiography, activism, technique, touring, education and the law. Part II, 'Women and popular performance', focuses on the careers of individual artists, once household names, including Lily Brayton, Ellen Terry, radio star Mabel Constanduros, and Oscar-winning film star Margaret Rutherford. Overall, the book provides new and vibrant cultural histories of women's work in the theatre and performance industries of the period.

Author : Maggie B. Gale,Kate Dorney
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526136879

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Stage women, 1900–50 by Maggie B. Gale,Kate Dorney Pdf

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This book presents a collection of cutting-edge historical and cultural essays in the field of women, theatre and performance. The chapters explore women’s networks of professional practice in the theatre and performance industries between 1900 and 1950, with a focus on women’s sense and experience of professional agency in an industry largely controlled by men. The book is divided into two sections: ‘Female theatre workers in the social and theatrical realm’ looks at the relationship between women’s work – on and off stage – and autobiography, activism, technique, touring, education and the law. ‘Women and popular performance’ focuses on the careers of individual artists, once household names, including Lily Brayton, Ellen Terry, radio star Mabel Constanduros and Oscar-winning film star Margaret Rutherford.

Author : Maggie B. Gale
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781351397193

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A Social History of British Performance Cultures 1900-1939 by Maggie B. Gale Pdf

This book provides a new social history of British performance cultures in the early decades of the twentieth century, where performance across stage and screen was generated by dynamic and transformational industries. Exploring an era book-ended by wars and troubled by social unrest and political uncertainty, A Social History of British Performance Cultures 1900–1939 makes use of the popular material cultures produced by and for the industries – autobiographies, fan magazines and trade journals, as well as archival holdings, popular sketches, plays and performances. Maggie B. Gale looks at how the performance industries operated, circulated their products and self-regulated their professional activities, in a period where enfranchisement, democratization, technological development and legislation shaped the experience of citizenship. Through close examination of material evidence and a theoretical underpinning, this book shows how performance industries reflected and challenged this experience, and explored the ways in which we construct our ‘performance’ as participants in the public realm. Suited not only to scholars and students of British theatre and theatre history, but to general readers as well, A Social History of British Performance Cultures 1900–1939 offers an original intervention into the construction of British theatre and performance histories, offering new readings of the relationship between the material cultures of performance, the social, professional and civic contexts from which they arise, and on which they reflect.

Author : Jan Sewell,Clare Smout
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 850 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030238285

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The Palgrave Handbook of the History of Women on Stage by Jan Sewell,Clare Smout Pdf

This book brings together nearly 40 academics and theatre practitioners to chronicle and celebrate the courage, determination and achievements of women on stage across the ages and around the globe. The collection stretches from ancient Greece to present-day Australasia via the United States, Soviet Russia, Europe, India, South Africa and Japan, offering a series of analytical snapshots of women performers, their work and the conditions in which they produced it. Individual chapters provide in-depth consideration of specific moments in time and geography while the volume as a whole and its juxtapositions stimulate consideration of the bigger picture, underlining the challenges women have faced across cultures in establishing themselves as performers and the range of ways in which they gained access to the stage. Organised chronologically, the volume looks not just to the past but the future: it challenges the very notions of ‘history’, ‘stage’ and even the definition of ‘women’ itself.

Author : Helen E. M. Brooks,Michael Hammond
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781108481502

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The Cambridge Companion to British Theatre of the First World War by Helen E. M. Brooks,Michael Hammond Pdf

The first comprehensive guide to British theatre's engagement with the First World War over the last century, providing accessible and lively coverage of theatre's role in the representation and remembrance of events, focusing on topics including regionality, politics, popular performance, Shakespeare, class, race and gender.

Author : Katharine M Cockin
Publisher : Pen and Sword Family History
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781526732064

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Tracing Your Theatrical Ancestors by Katharine M Cockin Pdf

How can you find out about the lives of ancestors who were involved in the world of theater: on stage and on film, in the music halls and traveling shows, in the circus and in all sorts of other forms of public performance? Katharine Cockin’s handbook provides a fascinating introduction for readers searching for information about ancestors who had clearly defined roles in the world of the theater and performance as well as those who left only a few tantalizing clues behind. The wider history of public performance is outlined, from its earliest origins in church rituals and mystery plays through periods of censorship driven by campaigns on moral and religious grounds up to the modern world of stage and screen. Case studies, which are a special feature of the book, demonstrate how the relevant records and be identified and interpreted, and they prove how much revealing information they contain. Information on relevant archives, books, museums and websites make this an essential guide for anyone who is keen to explore the subject.

Author : Kate Holmes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780429594311

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Female Aerialists in the 1920s and Early 1930s by Kate Holmes Pdf

Female solo aerialists of the 1920s and early 1930s were internationally popular performers in the largest live performance mass entertainment of the period in the UK and USA. Yet these aerialists and this period in circus history have been largely forgotten despite the iconic image of ‘the’ female aerialist still flaring in the popular imagination. Kate Holmes uses insights gained as a practitioner to reconstruct in detail the British and American performances and public personae of key stars such as Lillian Leitzel, Luisita Leers, and the Flying Codonas, revealing what is performed and implicit in today’s practice. Using a wealth of original sources, this book considers the forgotten stars whose legacy of the cultural image of the female aerialist echoes. Locating performers within wider cultural histories of sport, glamour, and gender, this book asks important questions about their stardom, including: Why were female aerialists so alluring when their muscularity challenged conservative ideals of femininity and how did they participate in change? What was it about their movements and the spaces they performed in that activated such strong audience responses? This book is vital reading for students and practitioners of aerial performance, circus, gender, popular performance, and performance studies.

Author : Lisa Stead
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780190906535

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Reframing Vivien Leigh by Lisa Stead Pdf

Reframing Vivien Leigh takes a new look at the laboring life one of the twentieth century's most iconic stars. Author Lisa Stead reframes the dominant narratives that have surrounded Leigh's life and career, offering a new perspective on Vivien Leigh as a distinctly archival subject. The book examines the collections and curatorial practices that have built up around her, exploring material documents collated by her own hand and by those who worked with her. The book also examines the collection practices of those who have developed deep, long-standing fandoms of her life and work. To do so, the book draws upon new oral history work with curators, archivists and fan collectives and examines a variety of archived correspondence, items of dress and costume, script annotations, photography, press clippings, props and memorabilia. It argues that such material has the potential to produce a new interpretation of Leigh as a creative laborer. As such, the book casts new light on the labor of archiving itself and the significance of archival processes and practices to contemporary feminist film historiography.

Author : Gillian Arrighi,Jim Davis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108485166

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The Cambridge Companion to the Circus by Gillian Arrighi,Jim Davis Pdf

An authoritative introduction to the specialised histories of the modern circus, its unique aesthetics, and its contemporary manifestations and scholarship, from its origins in commercial equestrian performance, to contemporary inflections of circus arts in major international festivals, educational environments, and social justice settings.

Author : Regina Lee Blaszczyk,David Suisman
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781512824216

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Capitalism and the Senses by Regina Lee Blaszczyk,David Suisman Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004327597

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Marmaduke Pickthall: Islam and the Modern World by Anonim Pdf

This new volume of essays marks eighty years since the death of Marmaduke Pickthall. His various roles as translator of the Qurʾan, traveller to the Near East, political journalist writing on behalf of Muslim Turkey, and creator of the Muslim novel are discussed. In later life Pickthall became a prominent member of the British Muslim community in London and Woking, co-worker with Muslims in the Indian subcontinent, supporter of the Khilafat movement, and editor of the journal Islamic Culture under the patronage of the Nizam of Hyderabad. Marmaduke Pickthall: Islam and the Modern World makes an important contribution to the field of Muslims in Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. Contributors are: Humayun Ansari, Adnan Ashraf, James Canton, Peter Clark, Ron Geaves, A.R. Kidwai, Faruk Kokoglu, Andrew C. Long, Geoffrey P. Nash, M. A. Sherif and Mohammad Siddique Seddon.

Author : Maggie B B. Gale,Vivien Gardner
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0719063329

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Auto/Biography and Identity by Maggie B B. Gale,Vivien Gardner Pdf

Arguing that women use autobiography and performance for expression and as a means of controlling their public and private selves, the contributors of these 11 essays examine the lives and work of a variety of artists ranging from actors as working women in the eighteenth century to monologists and performance artists today. Subjects include several performers, including Alma Ellerslie, Kitty Marion, Ina Rozant, Susan Glaspell, Adrienne Kennedy, Emma Robinson, Lena Ashwell, Tilly Wedekind, Clare Dowie, Janet Cardiff, Tracey Emin, and, in an interview, Bobby Baker, as well as essays on Latina theater and lesbians as performers constructing themselves and their community. Annotation : 2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Author : Florence Hartley
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : History
ISBN : HARVARD:32044009635152

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Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politéness by Florence Hartley Pdf

Do unto others as you would others should do to you. You can never be rude if you bear the rule always in mind, for what lady likes to be treated rudely? True Christian politeness will always be the result of an unselfish regard for the feelings of others, and though you may err in the ceremonious points of etiquette, you will never be im polite. Politeness, founded upon such a rule, becomes the expression, in graceful manner, of social virtues. The spirit of politeness consists in a certain attention to forms and ceremonies, which are meant both to please others and ourselves, and to make others pleased with us ;a still clearer definition may be given by saying that politeness is goodness of heart put into daily practice; the.re can be no true, politeness without kindness, purity, singleness of heart, and sensibility. Many believe that politeness is but a mask worn in the world to conceal bad passions and impulses, and to make a show of possessing virtues not really existing in the heart; thus, that politeness is merely hypocrisy and dissimulation. Do not believe this; be certain that those who profess such a doctrine are practising themselves the deceit they condemn so much.

Author : Chris Millard
Publisher : Springer
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-31
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781137529626

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A History of Self-Harm in Britain by Chris Millard Pdf

This book is open access under a CC BY license and charts the rise and fall of various self-harming behaviours in twentieth-century Britain. It puts self-cutting and overdosing into historical perspective, linking them to the huge changes that occur in mental and physical healthcare, social work and wider politics.