The Representation of the West in American Drama from 1849-1917
Author : Stuart Wallace Hyde
Publisher :
Page : 1034 pages
File Size : 12,82 MB
Release : 1953
Category : American drama
ISBN :
Author : Stuart Wallace Hyde
Publisher :
Page : 1034 pages
File Size : 12,82 MB
Release : 1953
Category : American drama
ISBN :
Author : R. Wattenberg
Publisher : Springer
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 24,28 MB
Release : 2011-05-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 023011914X
Frontier dramas were among the most popular and successful of early-twentieth-century Broadway type plays. The long runs of contemporary dramas not only indicate the popularity of these plays but also tell us that these plays offered views about the frontier that original audiences could and did embrace.
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 49,48 MB
Release : 2022-06-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9004490418
Author : Roger A. Hall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,36 MB
Release : 2001-08-16
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521793209
This book examines how the American frontier was presented in theatrical productions.
Author : Kay Marcella Robinson
Publisher :
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 17,46 MB
Release : 1983
Category : American drama
ISBN :
Author : Steven Neale
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 40,36 MB
Release : 2017-10-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 0861969294
Introduced by a comprehensive account of the factors governing the adaptation of stage plays and musicals in Hollywood from the early 1910s to the mid-to-late 1950s, Screening the Stage consists of a series of chapter-length studies of feature-length films, the plays and musicals on which they were based, and their remakes where pertinent. Founded on an awareness of evolving technologies and industrial practices rather than the tenets of adaptation theory, particular attention is paid to the evolving practices of Hollywood as well as to the purport and structure of the plays and stage musicals on which the film versions were based. Each play or musical is contextualized and summarized in detail, and each film is analyzed so as to pinpoint the ways in which they articulate, modify, or rework the former. Examples range from dramas, comedies, melodramas, musicals, operettas, thrillers, westerns and war film, and include The Squaw Man, The Poor Little Rich Girl, The Merry Widow, 7th Heaven, The Cocoanuts, Waterloo Bridge, Stage Door, I Remember Mama, The Pirate, Dial M for Murder and Attack.
Author : Maria Szasz
Publisher :
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 24,95 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Dramatists, American
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Author : Gary Michael Salt
Publisher :
Page : 962 pages
File Size : 43,48 MB
Release : 1976
Category : American drama
ISBN :
Author : Sandra K. Sagala
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 36,39 MB
Release : 2010-06-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0826344291
Between 1872 and 1886, before he achieved acclaim for his Wild West show, "Buffalo Bill" led a troupe of traveling actors known as a Combination across the country performing in frontier melodramas. Biographies of William Frederick Cody rarely address these fourteen rather obscure years when Cody honed the skills that would make him the world-renowned entertainer as he is now remembered. In this revision of her earlier book, Buffalo Bill, Actor, Sandra Sagala chronicles the decade and a half of Cody's life as he crisscrossed the country entertaining millions. She analyzes how the lessons he learned during those theatrical years helped shape his Wild West program, as well as Cody, the performer.
Author : Richard W. Etulain
Publisher : America West Publisher
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 13,53 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
The revised and updated edition of this standard reference work in the field of Western American Literature now contains over 6,000 bibliographic references. The topical listings have been expanded to encompass feminist and environmental studies. Rather than attempting to be exhaustive, the editors have chosen the major interpretive works, making the volume useful to both specialists working outside their area and nonspecialists seeking an overview. Broad in its scope, the guide also focuses on a number of special topics: local color and regionalism, popular western literature, western film, Indian literature and Indians in western literature, the environment, women and families, the Beats, and Canadian western literature. Logically and helpfully organized, the volume will be invaluable to scholars, researchers, students, and general readers.