Search Results - The Stage

Staging Desire : Queer Readings of American Theater History /

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Detroit on Stage : The Players Club, 1910-2005 / by Levering, Marijean

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Staging Governance : Theatrical Imperialism in London, 1770–1800 / by O'Quinn, Daniel, 1962-

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Staged Otherness : Ethnic Shows in Central and Eastern Europe, 1850–1939 /

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Gender in Play on the Shakespearean Stage : Boy Heroines and Female Pages / by Shapiro, Michael, 1938-

Subjects: “…Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Stage history To 1625.…”
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Lady Dicks and Lesbian Brothers : Staging the Unimaginable at the WOW Cafe Theater / by Davy, Kate

Table of Contents: “…Introducing WOW: "A miracle on E. 4th Street" -- Women are laughing again: allied faces -- Sex, drag, and rock 'n' roles: the festivals -- Feminist space and a system of anarchy: the storefront -- Staging the unimaginable: New York's East Village club scene -- Challenging whiteness: the fourth-floor walk-up -- "Learning to walk on our hands" -- Appendix: WOW Production history.…”
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Revolutionary Acts : Amateur Theater and the Soviet State, 1917-1938 / by Mally, Lynn

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Shakespearean Tragedy and Gender /

Table of Contents: “…'The Moor of Venice, ' or the Italian on the Renaissance English stage /…”
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Encounter, Engagement, and Exchange : How Native Populations of the Americas Transformed the World /

Table of Contents: “…Native Americans as portrayed on the operatic stage :…”
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A Brief History of Islam in Europe : Thirteen Centuries of Creed, Conflict and Coexistence / by Berger, Maurits

Table of Contents: “…Uncivilized Europe (700-1000 CE). I. Setting the Stage. 1. Europe at the Dawn of the Muslim Conquests -- 2. …”
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Theater Figures : The Production of the Nineteenth-Century British Novel / by Allen, Emily, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Theatrical reforms: Stage fright and the scene of reading -- Staging a comeback: The remasculinization of the novel -- Heimlich maneuvers: Domesticity, theatricality, and the abject -- Mesdames Bovary: Performative reading, cultural capital, and high art -- Performing distinction: Elevating the literary sphere.…”
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Performing Power : Cultural Hegemony, Identity, and Resistance in Colonial Indonesia / by Meer, Arnout van der, 1980-

Table of Contents: “…Setting the Stage : The Javanization of Colonial Authority in the Nineteenth Century -- "Sweet was the Dream, Bitter the Awakening" : The Contested Implementation of the Ethical Policy, 1901-1913 -- Disrupting the Colonial Performance : The Hormat Circular of 1913 and the National Awakening -- Contesting Sartorial Hierarchies : From Ethnic Stereotype to National Dress -- East is East and West is West : Forging Modern Identities -- Staging Colonial Modernity : Hegemony, Fairs, and the Indonesian Middle Classes.…”
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The Sound of Innovation : Stanford and the Computer Music Revolution / by Nelson, Andrew J.

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Setting the Stage; 3 The First Movement; 4 Tension and Release; 5 Duet for Stanford and Yamaha; 6 From Exposition to Development; 7 Plucking the Golden Gate Bridge; 8 Recapitulation and Variations; 9 Coda; Appendix: Interviews Conducted by Author; Notes; References; Index.…”
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Spain, China, and Japan in Manila, 1571-1644 : Local Comparisons and Global Connections / by Tremml, Birgit

Table of Contents: “…The foundations of a global stage -- 3. The trilogy of triangular trade -- III. …”
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Before Official Multiculturalism : Women’s Pluralism in Toronto, 1950s-1970s / by Iacovetta, Franca, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…The Case Study -- The Scholarship -- Toronto Counsellors and International Institute Social Work Theory and Practice -- Professionals, Narrative, and Gendered Middle-Class Subjectivities -- Marital Conflict, Emotions, and "De-culturalizing" Violence -- Generational Conflict: Intimacy, Money, and "Mini-Skirt" Feminism -- Making Multicultural Community at the Institute -- Community Projects for Rural Villagers: Health and Occupational Training -- Food as Charity, Community-Building, and Cosmopolitanism on a Budget -- Immigrant Gifts, Pluralist Spectacles, and Staging the Modern City and Nation -- Handicrafts, High Art, and Human Rights: Cultural Guardianship and Internationalism.…”
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Migrating into Financial Markets : How Remittances Became a Development Tool / by Savelsberg, Joachim J., 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : questions, theory, Darfur, data -- Setting the stage : Justice Cascade and Darfur -- The human rights field and Amnesty International -- American mobilization and the Justice Cascade -- The humanitarian aid field and Doctors without Borders -- The humanitarian complex and challenges to the justice : the case of Ireland -- Diplomatic representations of mass violence -- Diplomatic field in national contexts : deviations from the master narrative -- Mediating competing representations : the journalistic field -- Rules of the journalistic game, autonomy and the habitus of Africa correspondents -- Patterns of reporting : fields, countries, ideology and gender -- Conclusions : fields, the global versus the national and representations of mass violence.…”
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Representing Mass Violence : Conflicting Responses to Human Rights Violations in Darfur / by Savelsberg, Joachim J., 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : questions, theory, Darfur, data -- Setting the stage : Justice Cascade and Darfur -- The human rights field and Amnesty International -- American mobilization and the Justice Cascade -- The humanitarian aid field and Doctors without Borders -- The humanitarian complex and challenges to the justice : the case of Ireland -- Diplomatic representations of mass violence -- Diplomatic field in national contexts : deviations from the master narrative -- Mediating competing representations : the journalistic field -- Rules of the journalistic game, autonomy and the habitus of Africa correspondents -- Patterns of reporting : fields, countries, ideology and gender -- Conclusions : fields, the global versus the national and representations of mass violence.…”
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Deciphering Race : White Anxiety, Racial Conflict, and the Turn to Fiction in Mid-Victorian English Prose / by Callanan, Laura

Table of Contents: “…Aestheticizing Mid-Victorian Racial Tropism -- Toussaint and the Staging of Political Aesthetics in Normal: Harriet Martineaus The Hour and the Man (1841) -- Life Clothed in Forms: Radical Racism as Formalist Aesthetic in Robert Knoxs The Races of Men (1850) -- The Dialectic of Scapegoat and Fetish: Failed Catharsis in Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collinss The Perils of Certain English Prisoners (1857) -- So Help Me God, the Truth and Not the Truth: Hyper-Realism and the Taxonomy of Truth Seeking in the Royal Commissions Inquiry into the 1865 Jamaica Rebellion -- Race, Ruins, and Rebellion: Spatializing Racial @Normal: Otherness in James Grants First Love and Last Love (1868) -- De-Aestheticizing Sara(h) Ba(a)rtman(n).…”
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History from the Bottom Up and the Inside Out : Ethnicity, Race, and Identity in Working-Class History / by Barrett, James R., 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Roediger -- Irish americanization on stage : how Irish musicians, playwrights, and writers created a new urban American culture, 1880-1940 -- Making and unmaking the working class : E.P. …”
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Anatomizing Civil War : Studies in Lucan's Epic Technique / by Dinter, Martin T.

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