Stages of engagement : U.S. theatre and performance from 1898-1949 / Joshua E. Polster.

• Introduction -- Colonialism. Setting the stage: performing war and empire for the new U.S. century -- Religion, race and ethnicity. The Pan-American exposition and tragedy onstage -- Critical perspective: owning up: controlling and defining Jewish identity on the early 20th century American stage / Stuart J. Hecht -- Gender and sexuality. Gendered spaces: law and justice in Susan Glaspell's Trifles -- Critical perspective: sex on Broadway: Mae West and The Wales padlock law / Susan D.W. Abbotson -- Economic systems and systems of government. A new approach to revolution: Artef and Hirsch Leckert in the third period -- Critical perspective: the theatre of war: the rise of fascism, diversionary, anti-war and interventionist theatre / James Fisher -- Salesman and the 1930s theatres of social protest.

Ämnesord

Teater och samhälle  (sao)

Teater  -- historia (sao)

Theater and society  (LCSH)

Förenta staterna 

1900-talet  (sao)

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Ikb-qa Teaterhistoria och teaterkritik: Förenta staterna

Klassifikation

792.09730904 (DDC)

Ikb-qa (kssb/8)