Research Catalog

Title

Transatlantic broadway : the infrastructural politics of global performance / Marlis Schweitzer.

Author

Schweitzer, Marlis

Publication

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

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Details

Description

xix, 246 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Summary

"Transatlantic Broadway traces the infrastructural networks and technological advances that supported the globalization of popular entertainment in the pre-World War I period, with a specific focus on the production and performance of Broadway as physical space, dream factory, and glorious machine. Inspired by post-humanist scholarship, this book pays heed to the non-human entities and the backgrounded or disappeared human laborers who participated in the transnational expansion of theatre networks. In particular, it examines the transnational performances of ocean liners, piers, telegraph cables, telegrams, typewriters, office spaces, newspapers, and postcards and asks how these objects, as participants in a series of complicated networks, transformed the machinery of US theatre as well as the everyday practices of those who produced and consumed it. In so doing, it identifies surprising connections between the most mundane of actions - typing a letter, turning over a postcard - and the most extraordinary - firing a torpedo, declaring war"--

Series Statement

Transnational theatre histories

Uniform Title

Transnational theatre histories.

Subjects

• Theater > Production and direction
• PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism
• Theater > Philosophy
• Material culture

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-236) and index.

Contents

Introduction -- 1. Networking the Waves: Ocean Liners, Impresarios, and Broadway's Atlantic Expansion -- 2. Along the Wires: Telegraphic Performances and the Wiring of Broadway -- 3. White Collar Broadway: Performing the Modern Office -- 4. ''My Word! How He is Kissing Her': The Material Culture of Theatrical Promotion -- Epilogue: Transatlantic (Ee)Crossings.

Call Number

MWEC 15-4769

ISBN

• 9781137437341 (hardback)
• 1137437340 (hardback)

LCCN

2015001744

OCLC

893894311

Author

Schweitzer, Marlis, author.

Title

Transatlantic broadway : the infrastructural politics of global performance / Marlis Schweitzer.

Publisher

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Transnational theatre histories

Transnational theatre histories.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-236) and index.

Research Call Number

MWEC 15-4769