Staging modern American life
Subtitle: popular culture in the experimental theatre of Millay, Cummings, and Dos Passos
By: Thomas Fahy
Series: What is theatre?
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 183
ISBN-13: 9780230115958
Subjects: Popular culture in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama; American Experimental drama; Popular culture; History and criticism; American drama; Dramatic works; PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism; PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / Playwriting; Experimental theater; History
Description: "The theatrical works of Millay, Cummings, and Dos Passos, which have largely been marginalized in discussions of theater history and literary scholarship, offer a hybrid theater that integrates the popular with the formal, the mainstream with the experimental. Fahy examines the integration of and challenges to popular culture found in their works and offers new readings with an eye to American cultural studies and the impact of mass entertainment on modern life"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: "I cannot live without a macaroon!" : food, hunger, and the dangers of modern American culture in Edna St. Vincent Millay's Aria da Capo and other plays; title: "Damn everything but the circus!" : the ambiguous place of popular culture in E. E. Cummings' Him; title: Planes, trains, and automobiles : technology and the suburban nightmare in the plays of John Dos Passos; title: Conclusion.