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  • Kitchen Sink Realisms

    Domestic Labor, Dining, and Drama in American Theatre

    de Dorothy Chansky ...
    Series series Studies Theatre Hist & Culture
    From 1918’s Tickless Time through Waiting for Lefty, Death of a Salesman, A Streetcar Named Desire, A Raisin in the Sun, and The Prisoner of Second Avenue to 2005’s The Clean House, domestic labor has figured largely on American stages. No dramatic genre has done more than the one often dismissively dubbed “kitchen sink realism” to both support and contest the idea that the home is naturally women ... Leer más

    $39.99 USD

  • Losing It

    Staging the Cultural Conundrum of Dementia and Decline in American Theatre

    de Dorothy Chansky ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This monograph is a study of American (U.S.) stage representations of dementia mounted between 1913 and 2019. Its imbricated strands are playtexts; audiences as both the targets of the productions (artifacts in the marketplace) and as anticipated determinants of legibility; and medical science, both as has been (and is) known to researchers and, more importantly, as it has been (and is) known to ... Leer más

    $125.99 USD

  • Working in the Wings

    New Perspectives on Theatre History and Labor

    de Chrystyna Dail, Sara Freeman, Rosemarie K. Bank, Jonathan L Chambers, Dorothy Chansky, Tracey Elaine Chessum, Jerry Dickey, Elizabeth Reitz Mullenix, Melissa Rynn Porterfield, Tom Robson, AnnMarie T. Saunders, Max Shulman ...
    Series series Theater in the Americas
    Theatre has long been an art form of subterfuge and concealment. Working in the Wings: New Perspectives on Theatre History and Labor, edited by Elizabeth A. Osborne and Christine Woodworth, brings attention to what goes on behind the scenes, challenging, and revising our understanding of work, theatre, and history.Essays consider a range of historic moments and geographic locations—from African ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Food and Theatre on the World Stage

    Edición de Dorothy Chansky, Ann Folino White ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    Putting food and theatre into direct conversation, this volume focuses on how food and theatre have operated for centuries as partners in the performative, symbolic, and literary making of meaning. Through case studies, literary analyses, and performance critiques, contributors examine theatrical work from China, Japan, India, Greece, Italy, France, Germany, England, the United States, Chile, ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

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    The Dream of a Canadian Musical Theatre

    de Mel Atkey ...
    Did you know that the idea behind the Radio City Music Hall Rockettes was first tried out in Toronto? That Canada produced the world’s longest-running annual revue? Few people realize the Canadian influences that are at the heart of American and British culture.Author Mel Atkey’s research for Broadway North included interviews with Norman and Elaine Campbell and Don Harron, creators of Anne of ... Leer más

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  • Far From the Tree

    Parents, Children and the Search for Identity

    de Andrew Solomon ...
    * Selected as One of the Best Books of the 21st Century by The New York Times ** WINNER of the National Book Critics Circle Award * Books for a Better Life Award * The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of the Year *This masterpiece by the National Book Award–winning author of The Noonday Demon features stories of parents who not only learn to deal with their exceptional children, but also ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Breaking the Age Code

    How Your Beliefs About Aging Determine How Long and Well You Live

    de Becca Levy, PhD ...
    Recipient of the 2023 Richard Kalish Innovative Publication Book AwardYale professor and leading expert on the psychology of successful aging, Dr. Becca Levy, draws on her ground-breaking research to show how age beliefs can be improved so they benefit all aspects of the aging process, including the way genes operate and the extension of life expectancy by 7.5 years.The often-surprising results of ... Leer más

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  • Normal Sucks

    How to Live, Learn, and Thrive, Outside the Lines

    de Jonathan Mooney ...
    Confessional and often hilarious, in Normal Sucks a neuro-diverse writer, advocate, and father offers a radical message of acceptance and empowerment.Jonathan Mooney blends anecdote, expertise, and memoir to present a new mode of thinking about how we live and learn. As a neuro-diverse kid diagnosed with dyslexia and ADHD who didn't learn to read until he was twelve, the realization that he wasn’t ... Leer más

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  • The Cult of Personality Testing

    How Personality Tests Are Leading Us to Miseducate Our Children, Mismanage Our Companies, and Misunderstand Ourselves

    de Annie Murphy Paul ...
    Award-winning psychology writer Annie Paul delivers a scathing exposé on the history and effects of personality tests.Millions of people worldwide take personality tests each year to direct their education, to decide on a career, to determine if they'll be hired, to join the armed forces, and to settle legal disputes. Yet, according to award-winning psychology writer Annie Murphy Paul, the sheer ... Leer más

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  • Bipolar Expeditions

    Mania and Depression in American Culture

    de Emily Martin ...
    Manic behavior holds an undeniable fascination in American culture today. It fuels the plots of best-selling novels and the imagery of MTV videos, is acknowledged as the driving force for successful entrepreneurs like Ted Turner, and is celebrated as the source of the creativity of artists like Vincent Van Gogh and movie stars like Robin Williams. Bipolar Expeditions seeks to understand mania's ... Leer más

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  • Depression

    A Public Feeling

    de Ann Cvetkovich ...
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  • An Ideal Theater

    Founding Visions for a New American Art

    de Todd London ...
    An Ideal Theater is a wide-ranging, inspiring documentary history of the American theatre movement as told by the visionaries who goaded it into being. This anthology collects over forty essays, manifestos, letters and speeches that are each introduced and placed in historical context by the noted writer and arts commentator, Todd London, who spent nearly a decade assembling this collection. This ... Leer más

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