Transatlantic Broadway [electronic resource] : The Infrastructural Politics of Global Performance /
Schweitzer, M.author.
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.
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Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Preface: Transatlantic Crossings; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; 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 (Re)Crossings; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Theater—History.
Performing arts.
Arts.
Theater.
Theatre History.
Performing Arts.
Arts.
Theatre and Performance Studies.