American Puppet Modernism - Essays on the Material World in Performance

Zusatztext 'In American Puppet Modernism! Bell presents a wide-ranging history of puppets and performing objects within a US socio-political context! contributing new insight into! and detailed analysis of! their roles in US society and theatre history. He simultaneously investigates and re-thinks the role of material objects on stage and in popular culture.' - Alissa Mello! Platform Informationen zum Autor John Bell is the Director of the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry at the University of Connecticut, USA. Klappentext Please note this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title (PTO). Stock of this book requires shipment from an overseas supplier. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. This study analyses the history of puppet! mask! and performing object theatre in the United States over the past 150 years to understand how a peculiarly American mixture of global cultures! commercial theatre! modern-art idealism! and mechanical innovation reinvented the ancient art of puppetry. Zusammenfassung This study analyses the history of puppet, mask, and performing object theatre in the United States over the past 150 years to understand how a peculiarly American mixture of global cultures, commercial theatre, modern-art idealism, and mechanical innovation reinvented the ancient art of puppetry. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introductions The Sioux War Panorama and American Mythic History Masks and Shalako Puppets: Anthropology meets Indigenous Mask and Puppet Theater The Little Theater Movement and the Birth of the American Puppeteer Jane Heap and the International Theater Exhibition of 1926 Puppets and Propaganda Identity: Gertrude Stein's Puppet Show From Sorcery to Science: Remo Bufano and the 1939 World's Fair American Puppets and Television Kustom Kulture and Detroit Industrials: Cars as Performing Objects Landscape and Teeth Masks ACT-UP and the Puppetista Movement: Reinventing Activist Performance as Object Theater Mass Media and Motion Capture...

Product details

• Authors: J. Bell, John Bell, Bell John
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.12.2012
• EAN: 9781137286703
• ISBN: 978-1-137-28670-3
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History; Palgrave Studies in Theatre an; Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); B, Performing Arts, Literature: history & criticism, History of the Americas, North America (USA and Canada), Palgrave History Collection, Theatre and Performance Arts, America—History, Literature—History and criticism, Literary History, America—Literatures, North American Literature