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Uncle Tom's Cabin on the American Stage and Screen - John W. Frick

Uncle Tom's Cabin on the American Stage and Screen

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Buch | Softcover
308 Seiten
2015 | 1st ed. 2015
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-56647-8 (ISBN)
CHF 74,85 inkl. MwSt
No play in the history of the American Stage has been as ubiquitous and as widely viewed as Uncle Tom's Cabin . This book traces the major dramatizations of Stowe's classic from its inception in 1852 through modern versions on film. Frick introduce the reader to the artists who created the plays and productions that created theatre history.

John Frick is Professor Emeritus of Theatre at the University of Virginia, USA. He is the author of Theatre, Culture and Temperance Reform in Nineteenth-Century America and New York's First Theatrical Center: The Rialto at Union Square as well as co-editor of The Directory of Historic American Theatre and Theatrical Directors: A Biographical Dictionary. He is a past editor of Theatre Symposium, a former Stanley J. Kahrl Fellow at Harvard University, past president of the American Theatre and Drama Society, and the 2010 recipient of the Betty Jean Jones Award for Outstanding Teacher of American Theatre and Drama. While in New York, he worked Off-Off Broadway as a dramaturg and as a stage manager with theatre and dance companies.

1. Halfway between Sermon and Social Theory: The Mania for "Tom Mania" 2. "There is No Arguing with Pictures": The Aiken/Howard Uncle Tom's Cabin 3. "A Play to which No Apologist for Slavery Could Object": The Conway/Kimball/Barnum Uncle Tom's Cabin 4. "O It Was a Sight Worth Seeing": Uncle Tom Hits the Road 5. Long Live Uncle Tom! Uncle Tom's Cabin in the Twentieth Century 6. Uncle Tom in Middle Age: From a Stage Tradition to the Silver Screen Epilogue: The Story that Won't Stay Dead Appendix: Famous Actors/Actresses Who Appeared in Uncle Tom's Cabin

Erscheint lt. Verlag 4.11.2015
Reihe/Serie Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
Zusatzinfo XIX, 308 p.
Verlagsort Basingstoke
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Allgemeines / Lexika
Kunst / Musik / Theater Film / TV
Kunst / Musik / Theater Theater / Ballett
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-137-56647-7 / 1137566477
ISBN-13 978-1-137-56647-8 / 9781137566478
Zustand Neuware
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