The Empire actors
Subtitle: stars of Australasian costume drama 1890s-1920s
By: Veronica Kelly
Publisher: Currency House
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Strawberry Hills, N.S.W
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9780980563290
Subjects: Theater; History; Actors; Theater and society
Description: "In the decades from Federation to the 1920s live entertainment was an integral part of the Imperial world and performers were the first generation of truly global marketeers." "In epic tales of royal splendours and Napoleonic conquests, of heroic gladiators and Christian sacrifice, of musketeers and courtesans, hussars and doomed princesses, Arab houris and Oriental mandarins, international stage celebrities transported Australasian audiences into identification with the older, more powerful civilizations from which they had come."

" These stars travelled the world in style, carrying messages of trade, fashion, tourism, modernism and the privilege of being a member of the British Empire."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-191) and index.
Table of contents: title: Australasian modernity; title: Seeing 'me and the mechanism together'; title: For God and empire; title: Metamorphic memory and the 'fascinating Julius'; title: The boy from Dumfries; title: Partnerships and their fortunes; title: Gendered bodies in 'gladrags'; title: The queen of emotion; title: Maud Jeffries and Roy Redgrave.