American Puppet Modernism Essays on the Material World in Performance

Name: American Puppet Modernism Essays on the Material World in Performance
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ISBN: 9781403979810

ISBN-10: 1403979812

ISBN-13: 9781403979810

Edition: 2008

Authors: John Bell

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This studynbsp;analyzes the history of puppet, mask, and performing object theater in the United States over the past 150 years to understand how a peculiarly American mixture of global cultures, commercial theater, modern-art idealism and mechanical innovation created uniquely modern and singularly American approaches which have reinvented the ancient arts of puppetry as essential performance modes of the twenty-first century.

Book details

Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date: 9/19/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 280
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.81" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English

John Bell is Assistant Professor of Innovative Communication Design at the University of Maine.



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Playing with Stuff: The Material World in Performance



The Sioux War Panorama and American Mythic History



Shalako Puppets and Nineteenth-Century Ritual



The Little Theatre Movement and the Birth of the American Puppeteer: Midwest Puppet Modernism



New York Puppet Modernism: Remo Bufano and Jane Heap



Puppets and Propaganda: 1930s Parades in New York City



American Puppet Modernism in the 1930s: Gertrude Stein's Identity



From Sorcery to Science: Remo Bufano and World's Fair Puppet Theatre



Performing Objects, Special Effects, and Mass Media



Automobile Performance and Kustom Kulture



Beyond the Cold War: Bread and Puppet Theater at the End of the Century



Old and New Materials: Wood, Paper, Metal, Plastic, Bone


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