Transatlantic Stage Stars in Vaudeville and Variety: Celebrity Turns

ISBN-13: 9781403975362 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 307 str.

Leigh Woods

Opis

It was a strange notion in 1900, that leading lights of the legitimate stage would ever join a bill of "turns" or short acts, everything from, and in between, song-and-dance, trained animals, blackface, aerialists, criminals regaling crowds with their exploits, eating fire. Transatlantic Stage Stars in Vaudeville and Variety shows renowned actors showing rough fare in rough times. Celebrity will be seen changing, always, even to twisting its foremost exemplars in the wind.

Recenzje

'Woods shows how international performers in American vaudeville and British music hall wrought new understandings of celebrity, gender, patriotism and empire. This lively storyilluminates an era in global culture that bears important lessons for our own time.' - Robert W. Snyder, Rutgers-Newark; Author of The Voice of the City: Vaudeville and Popular Culture

Spis treści

Acknowledgements Introduction Patronizing, 1890-1901 Precious Brits, 1904-1912 Growing Pains, 1910-1913 Suffer the Women, 1910-1914 War and Peace, 1914-1918 Parting, 1921-1934 Afterthoughts Notes Bibliography Index

O autorze

LEIGH WOODS is Professor of Theatre and Drama and Head of Theatre Studies at the University of Michigan, USA.