Theatre, war and propaganda
Subtitle: 1930-2005
By: [editor, M. Scott Phillips]
Contributors: Phillips, M. Scott
Series: Theatre symposium -- v. 14, 2006; Theatre symposium -- v. 14
Publisher: Southern Theatre Conference and University of Alabama Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa, AL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 166
ISBN-13: 9780817353568
Subjects: War and theater; Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Theater and the war; World War, 1939-1945 -- Theater and the war; Iraq War, 2003- -- Theater and the war
Notes: Includes bibliographical references
Table of contents: value: A cognitive approach to Brechtian theatre / Bruce A. McConachie; value: Porgy and Bess as propaganda : preaching to the (Eva Jessye) choir / Alan Woods; value: Inventing the heartland : the Theatre Guild, Oklahoma! and World War II / Claudia Wilsch Case; value: Precious time : an alternative reading of Thornton Wilder's Our town and William Saroyan's The time of your life as pre-World War II dramas / Anne Fletcher; value: Military minstrelsy in text and performance / kb saine; value: In the jungle of cities : May '68 arrives in Avignon / Kate Bredeson; value: Iterations of conscience in performance : the Catonsville Nine, their protest, their trial, and their docudramas / Jim Stacy; value: Where have all the protestors gone? : 1960s radical theatre and contemporary theatrical responses to U.S. military involvement in Iraq / David Callaghan; value: Identity as ideology, assumed or otherwise : second-wave responses to the idea of 9/11 / Evan Bridenstine; value: Stephen Sondheim's Assassins and the wartime political climate / Diana Calderazzo; value: Symposium response / Alan Woods and Bruce A. McConachie