Performance and Modernity - Enacting Change on the Globalizing Stage

List of contents

1. Money: Transacting Value on the Romantic Stage; 2. The Railroad: The Throughline to Modern Consciousness on the Naturalist Stage; 3. The Nation-State: Eurhythmics and the Bohemian Model of Affiliation; 4. Advertising: Avant-Garde Provocations and the Commercialization of Aesthetic Taste; 5. Air Conditioning: Psychological Realism and the Circulation of 'Cool'.

About the author

Julia A. Walker is Associate Professor of English and Drama, with joint appointments in the English and Performing Arts Departments at Washington University in St. Louis. She is the author of Expressionism and Modernism in the American Theatre: Bodies, Voice, Words (Cambridge University Press, 2005), along with numerous published essays.

Summary

This book demonstrates how the experience of change in the modern period was first registered in bodily metaphors that took shape on stage. In new styles of performance-acting, dance, music, pageantry, avant-garde provocations, film and video-it finds fresh evidence for how modernity has been understood and lived.

Product details

• Authors: Julia A. Walker, Julia A. (Washington University Walker
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2021
• EAN: 9781108833066
• ISBN: 978-1-108-83306-6
• No. of pages: 312
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; DRAMA / American / General, Performance Art, Theatre Direction & Production, Theatre direction and production