| Description |
xii, 331 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Spectacle, performance and audience in nineteenth-century theatre Introduction / Louis James -- Was Jerrold's Black ey'd Susan more popular than Wordsworth's Lucy? / Louis James -- Word and image in Pixérécourt's melodramas: the dramaturgy of the strip-cartoon / W.D. Howarth -- Joseph Bouchardy: a melodramatist and his public / John McCormick -- The music of melodrama / David Mayer -- Popular theatre in Victorian Birmingham / Douglas A. Reid -- Water drama / Derek Forbes -- Equestrian drama and the circus / Antony D. Hippisley Coxe -- Theatre of war: the Crimea on the London stage 1854-5 / J.S. Bratton -- Popular drama and the mummers' play / A.E. Green -- pt. 2. Politics and performance in twentieth-century drama and film Introduction / David Bradby -- Meyerhold and Eisenstein / Nick Worrall -- Erwin Piscator's 1927 production of Hoppla, we're alive / Martin Kane -- Prolet Buehne: agit-prop in America / Stuart Cosgrove -- Workers' theatre 1926-36 / Raphael Samuel -- The October Group and theatre under the Front Populaire / David Bradby -- Only the stars survive: disaster movies in the seventies / Nick Roddick -- pt. 3. Problems and prospects Introduction / Bernard Sharratt -- The politics of the popular? -from melodrama to television / Bernard Sharratt |
| Analysis |
Western world Popular theatre, ca1800-1977. Political aspects - Conference proceedings |
| Notes |
Includes indexes |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 319-322 |
| Subject |
Drama -- History and criticism.
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Popular culture.
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Theater -- Political aspects.
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| Author |
Bradby, David.
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James, Louis, 1933-
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Sharratt, Bernard.
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| LC no. |
79012036 |
| ISBN |
0521227550 |
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