The American Stage and the Great Depression
A Cultural History of the Grotesque
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- Author: Mark Fearnow, Pennsylvania State University
- Date Published: February 2007
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- isbn: 9780521033626
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The American Stage and the Great Depression: A Cultural History of the Grotesque proposes a correlation between the divided "mind" of America during the Depression and popular stage works of the era, which are interpreted as theatrical reflections of Depression culture's sense of being trapped between a discredited past and a nightmarish future. The author analyzes the 1930s as an era of the grotesque, in which the irreconcilable were forced into tense and dynamic coexistence.
Read more- Provides an interdisciplinary approach to theatre
- Focuses attention on popular stage works of the period
- Applies the theory of the grotesque to American culture of the 1930s
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"...provides valuable insights into the popular culture (theatre and fiflm) of a period which has often been categorized too indiscriminately as the "red decade." American Studies
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- Date Published: February 2007
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521033626
- length: 228 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 152 x 14 mm
- weight: 0.35kg
- contains: 4 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: loving the grotesque
1. The grotesque and the Great Depression
2. The political analogy
or, 'tragicomedy' in an in-between age
3. Misery burlesqued: the peculiar case of Tobacco Road
4. Chaos and cruelty in the theatrical space: Horse Eats Hat, Hellzapoppin, and the pleasure of farce
Appendix: cast and staff information for principal productions
Notes
Bibliography
Index.
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