Buch, Englisch, 142 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 323 g
Buch, Englisch, 142 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 323 g
ISBN: 978-1-4766-7259-5
Verlag: McFarland and Company, Inc.
There was, however, a place to go and create and keep your name: theatre.We begin at the turn of the 20th Century when theatre consisted primarily of melodramas, pot-boilers, and drawing room comedies save for the occasional Shakespearean play brought across the ocean by an English company looking for new lands to conquer, The reader is introduced to the Theatre Guild which births the Group Theatre. It looks at the short life and death of the Federal Theatre Project, and the investigations of the motion picture and television industries by the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC). The role the three major performing arts unions played is vital to this story, leading into investigating Broadway and the theatre artists who continue to make work in spite of it all.
This book opens the window on an art form that brought light into the darkness, and ends as a simple love letter to theatre and those who create it.
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- Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Musicals