Search Results - "The Stage"

Staging Desire : Queer Readings of American Theater History /

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Stage to Studio : Musicians and the Sound Revolution, 1890-1950 / by Kraft, James P.

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Passing Performances : Queer Readings of Leading Players in American Theater History /

Table of Contents: “…Schanke and Kim Marra -- "My noble Spartacus": Edwin Forrest and masculinity on the nineteenth-century stage / Ginger Strand -- "Such Romeo as we had never ventured to hope for": Charlotte Cushman / Denise A. …”
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Prison Area, Independence Valley : American Paradoxes in Political Life and Popular Culture / by Kroes, Rob

Table of Contents: “…Bush administration and European anti-Americanism -- The ascent of the falling man : an iconic image of 9/11 -- Cool hand luck : how America played its hand entertaining the world -- Musical America : staging the U.S.A. to the sounds of music -- A spaghetti southern : landscapes of fear in Quentin Tarantino's Django unchained -- Freaks on display : a tale of empathy and ostracism -- American responses to the Holocaust : atrocity photographs as nomadic objects -- Barack Hussein Obama : two portrait sketches -- Obama and the paradox of American global power : dreams of democracy and the imperial imperative -- Taking exception.…”
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The Imaginary and Its Worlds : American Studies after the Transnational Turn /

Table of Contents: “…William James versus Charles Taylor: Philosophy of Religion and the Confines of the Social and Cultural Imaginaries / Herwig Friedl -- The Shaping of We-Group Identities in the African American Community: A Perspective of Figurational Sociology on the Cultural Imaginary / Christa Buschendorf -- Russia's Californio Romance: The Other Shores of Whitman's Pacific / Lene Johannessen -- Form Games: Staging Life in the Systems Epoch / Mark Seltzer -- Political Imaginaries. …”
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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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Curing Medicare : A Doctor's View on How Our Health Care System Is Failing Older Americans and How We Can Fix It / by Lazris, Andrew

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Beyond Lift Every Voice and Sing : The Culture of Uplift, Identity, and Politics in Black Musical Theatre / by Seniors, Paula Marie

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I Made You to Find Me : The Coming of Age of the Woman Poet and the Politics of Poetic Address / by Hedley, Jane

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Five Strands of Fictionality : The Institutional Construction of Contemporary American Fiction / by Punday, Daniel

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