Liberty Theater - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Liberty Theater write by Rosalind Solomon. This book was released on 2018. Liberty Theater available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Liberty Theater by Rosalind Fox Solomon brings together her photographs made in the Southern United States from the 1970s to 1990s, never before published together as a group. Solomon's images depict a complex terrain of social and emotional issues inherited over generations: a world of class and gender divisions, implied and overt racism, competing notions of liberty, and lurking violence. Journeying through Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, and South California, Solomon draws attention to cultural idiosyncrasies, paradoxes and theatrical displays: a Daughter of the Confederacy sits in costume with a china doll from her collection; a dead tree stump, fenced and suspended with wires is elevated to the status of a Civil War monument; African American boys examine a vitrine of guns as two white police manikins loom behind them. Poised between act and re-enactment, the animate and the inanimate, Solomon's images reveal how history becomes a vernacular performance and identity a form of theatre.--
Straight Line Crazy
Straight Line Crazy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Straight Line Crazy write by David Hare. This book was released on 2022-03-31. Straight Line Crazy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For forty uninterrupted years, Robert Moses was the most powerful man in New York. Though never elected to office, he manipulated those who were through a mix of guile, charm and intimidation. Motivated at first by a determination to improve the lives of New York City's workers, he created parks, bridges and 627 miles of expressway to connect the people to the great outdoors. But in the 1950s, groups of citizens began to organize against his schemes and against the motor car, campaigning for a very different idea of what a city should be. David Hare's blazing account of a man - played by Ralph Fiennes - whose iron will exposed the weakness of democracy in the face of charismatic conviction, premieres at the Bridge Theatre, London, in March 2022.
Performing the Temple of Liberty
Performing the Temple of Liberty - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Performing the Temple of Liberty write by Jenna M. Gibbs. This book was released on 2014-06-20. Performing the Temple of Liberty available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How popular theater, including blackface characters, reflected and influenced attitudes toward race, the slave trade, and ideas of liberty in early America. Jenna M. Gibbs explores the world of theatrical and related print production on both sides of the Atlantic in an age of remarkable political and social change. Her deeply researched study of working-class and middling entertainment covers the period of the American Revolution through the first half of the nineteenth century, examining controversies over the place of black people in the Anglo-American moral imagination. Taking a transatlantic and nearly century-long view, Performing the Temple of Liberty draws on a wide range of performed texts as well as ephemera—broadsides, ballads, and cartoons—and traces changes in white racial attitudes. Gibbs asks how popular entertainment incorporated and helped define concepts of liberty, natural rights, the nature of blackness, and the evils of slavery while also generating widespread acceptance, in America and in Great Britain, of blackface performance as a form of racial ridicule. Readers follow the migration of theatrical texts, images, and performers between London and Philadelphia. The story is not flattering to either the United States or Great Britain. Gibbs's account demonstrates how British portrayals of Africans ran to the sympathetic and to a definition of liberty that produced slave manumission in 1833 yet reflected an increasingly racialized sense of cultural superiority. On the American stage, the treatment of blacks devolved into a denigrating, patronizing view embedded both in blackface burlesque and in the idea of "Liberty," the figure of the white goddess. Performing the Temple of Liberty will appeal to readers across disciplinary lines of history, literature, theater history, and culture studies. Scholars and students interested in slavery and abolition, British and American politics and culture, and Atlantic history will also take an interest in this provocative work.
Liberty Theatres of the United States Army, 1917-1919
Liberty Theatres of the United States Army, 1917-1919 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Liberty Theatres of the United States Army, 1917-1919 write by Weldon B. Durham. This book was released on 2006-09-12. Liberty Theatres of the United States Army, 1917-1919 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Created by the War Department's Commission on Training Camp Activities, Liberty Theatres aimed to produce "morally uplifting" plays and movies for thousands of troops, but they became little more than public relations ploys. This volume provides an in-depth look at the 42 Liberty Theatres created by the War Department from 1917 to 1919"--Provided by publisher.
Out of Sterno
Out of Sterno - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Out of Sterno write by Deborah Zoe Laufer. This book was released on 2009. Out of Sterno available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Dotty's life in Sterno with her husband Hamel is absolutely perfect! It's a fairy tale, it really is. True, in their seven years of marriage Hamel has forbidden her to leave their tiny apartment or speak to anyone, but Dotty is so very happy to spend her days watching video re-enactments of the day they first met. When a phone call from a mysterious woman threatens to tear her world asunder, Dotty must venture out into the vast city of Sterno, and try to discover what it is to be a "real" woman.
