Author: Leon A. Bennun
Publisher: Nature Kenya East Africa Natural History Society
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Important Bird Areas in Kenya
Author: Leon A. Bennun
Publisher: Nature Kenya East Africa Natural History Society
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Publisher: Nature Kenya East Africa Natural History Society
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
George Peabody, a Biography
Author: Franklin Parker
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN: 9780826512567
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
A biography of George Peabody
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN: 9780826512567
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
A biography of George Peabody
Publications 1934
Author: United States. National Recovery Review Board
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
Henry Adams and His Friends
Author: Henry Adams
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Historians
Languages : en
Pages : 938
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Historians
Languages : en
Pages : 938
Book Description
Hollywood Highbrow
Author: Shyon Baumann
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691187282
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Today's moviegoers and critics generally consider some Hollywood products--even some blockbusters--to be legitimate works of art. But during the first half century of motion pictures very few Americans would have thought to call an American movie "art." Up through the 1950s, American movies were regarded as a form of popular, even lower-class, entertainment. By the 1960s and 1970s, however, viewers were regularly judging Hollywood films by artistic criteria previously applied only to high art forms. In Hollywood Highbrow, Shyon Baumann for the first time tells how social and cultural forces radically changed the public's perceptions of American movies just as those forces were radically changing the movies themselves. The development in the United States of an appreciation of film as an art was, Baumann shows, the product of large changes in Hollywood and American society as a whole. With the postwar rise of television, American movie audiences shrank dramatically and Hollywood responded by appealing to richer and more educated viewers. Around the same time, European ideas about the director as artist, an easing of censorship, and the development of art-house cinemas, film festivals, and the academic field of film studies encouraged the idea that some American movies--and not just European ones--deserved to be considered art.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691187282
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Today's moviegoers and critics generally consider some Hollywood products--even some blockbusters--to be legitimate works of art. But during the first half century of motion pictures very few Americans would have thought to call an American movie "art." Up through the 1950s, American movies were regarded as a form of popular, even lower-class, entertainment. By the 1960s and 1970s, however, viewers were regularly judging Hollywood films by artistic criteria previously applied only to high art forms. In Hollywood Highbrow, Shyon Baumann for the first time tells how social and cultural forces radically changed the public's perceptions of American movies just as those forces were radically changing the movies themselves. The development in the United States of an appreciation of film as an art was, Baumann shows, the product of large changes in Hollywood and American society as a whole. With the postwar rise of television, American movie audiences shrank dramatically and Hollywood responded by appealing to richer and more educated viewers. Around the same time, European ideas about the director as artist, an easing of censorship, and the development of art-house cinemas, film festivals, and the academic field of film studies encouraged the idea that some American movies--and not just European ones--deserved to be considered art.
New Readings in Theatre History
Author: Jacqueline S. Bratton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521794633
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Table of contents
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521794633
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Table of contents
The Victorian Music Hall
Author: Dagmar Kift
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521474726
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
With the exception of the occasional local case study, music-hall history has until now been presented as the history of the London halls. This book attempts to redress the balance by setting music-hall history within a national perspective. Kift also sheds a new light on the roles of managements, performers and audiences. For example, the author confutes the commonly held assumption that most women in the halls were prostitutes and shows them to have been working women accompanied by workmates of both sexes or by their families. She argues that before the 1890s the halls catered predominantly to working-class and lower middle-class audiences of men and women of all ages and were instrumental in giving them a strong and self-confident identity. The hall's ability to sustain a distinct class-awareness was one of their greatest strengths - but this factor was also at the root of many of the controversies which surrounded them. These controversies are at the centre of the book and Kift treats them as test cases for social relations which provide fresh insights into nineteenth-century British society and politics.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521474726
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
With the exception of the occasional local case study, music-hall history has until now been presented as the history of the London halls. This book attempts to redress the balance by setting music-hall history within a national perspective. Kift also sheds a new light on the roles of managements, performers and audiences. For example, the author confutes the commonly held assumption that most women in the halls were prostitutes and shows them to have been working women accompanied by workmates of both sexes or by their families. She argues that before the 1890s the halls catered predominantly to working-class and lower middle-class audiences of men and women of all ages and were instrumental in giving them a strong and self-confident identity. The hall's ability to sustain a distinct class-awareness was one of their greatest strengths - but this factor was also at the root of many of the controversies which surrounded them. These controversies are at the centre of the book and Kift treats them as test cases for social relations which provide fresh insights into nineteenth-century British society and politics.
Representing the Past
Author: Charlotte M. Canning
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1587299380
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
"Representing the Past is required reading for any serious scholar of theatre and performance historiography: original in its conception, global in its reach, thought-provoking and transformative in its effects."---Gay Gibson Cima, author, Early American Women Crities: Performance, Religion, Race --
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1587299380
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
"Representing the Past is required reading for any serious scholar of theatre and performance historiography: original in its conception, global in its reach, thought-provoking and transformative in its effects."---Gay Gibson Cima, author, Early American Women Crities: Performance, Religion, Race --
Melodramatic Tactics
Author: Elaine Hadley
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804724036
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
This pathbreaking work analyzes melodrama as not merely a theatrical genre but as a behavioral paradigm of the nineteenth century, manifest in the theater, in literature, and in society. It shows how the melodramatic mode reaffirmed the familial, hierarchical, and public grounds for ethical behavior and identity that characterized models of social exchange and organization.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804724036
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
This pathbreaking work analyzes melodrama as not merely a theatrical genre but as a behavioral paradigm of the nineteenth century, manifest in the theater, in literature, and in society. It shows how the melodramatic mode reaffirmed the familial, hierarchical, and public grounds for ethical behavior and identity that characterized models of social exchange and organization.
The Making of Victorian Drama
Author: Anthony Jenkins
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521402050
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
The drama of Edward Bulwer, Tom Robertson, W. S. Gilbert, W. A. Jones, Arthur Pinero, Oscar Wilde and Bernard Shaw, examined in social and political context. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of theatre history, English literature and social history, and women's studies.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521402050
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
The drama of Edward Bulwer, Tom Robertson, W. S. Gilbert, W. A. Jones, Arthur Pinero, Oscar Wilde and Bernard Shaw, examined in social and political context. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of theatre history, English literature and social history, and women's studies.