Julia A. Walker

Performance and Modernity

Enacting Change on the Globalizing Stage

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book demonstrates how the experience of change in the modern period was first registered in bodily metaphors that took shape on stage. In new styles of performance-acting, dance, music, pageantry, avant-garde provocations, film and video-it finds fresh evidence for how modernity has been understood and lived.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 313
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. August 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108964333
• ISBN-10: 1108964338
• Artikelnr.: 70602385

Autorenporträt

Julia A. Walker is Associate Professor of English and Drama, with joint appointments in the English and Performing Arts Departments at Washington University in St. Louis. She is the author of Expressionism and Modernism in the American Theatre: Bodies, Voice, Words (Cambridge University Press, 2005), along with numerous published essays.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Money: Transacting Value on the Romantic Stage; 2. The Railroad: The
Throughline to Modern Consciousness on the Naturalist Stage; 3. The
Nation-State: Eurhythmics and the Bohemian Model of Affiliation; 4.
Advertising: Avant-Garde Provocations and the Commercialization of
Aesthetic Taste; 5. Air Conditioning: Psychological Realism and the
Circulation of 'Cool'.