Broadway and corporate capitalism
Subtitle: the rise of the professional-managerial class, 1900-1920
By: Michael Schwartz.
Series: Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230616578
Subjects: Theater and society -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century; Theater management -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century; Class consciousness -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century; American drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Class consciousness in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: a matter for experts; title: The growth of Broadway, the emergence of the PMC. Brave New York: nowhere to go but up; title: The show business; title: Who were the PMC?; title: Meet the experts; title: Where the actors stood: the actors' strike; title: The problem of nerves. Dim shadows: pre-PMC consciousness; title: Modern men and modern nerves; title: Gillette as Sherlock Holmes, super expert; title: Fitch and the psychological moment; title: Neurasthenics caught on Kodak; title: Muckraking the playing field: emerging PMC class consciousness. The freshest kids in town; title: Fair play: The college widow, Strongheart, and Brown of Harvard; title: Sweepings from the muckrakes: The lion and the mouse; title: Strikers, gentlemen, and toughs: the boss; title: A size thirteen collar: musicals and PMC class consciousness. The musical: pre-post-mortem; title: The providences of God: The Sultan of Sulu; title: Musicals grow up for a moment: the Princess shows; title: Showing a class how to move: the Castles; title: System and farce: emerging PMC habitus. Cohan as super model, positive and negative; title: F.W. Taylor: a scientific call for PMC; title: Losing and making a fortune: Brewster's millions; title: Grant Mitchell: PMC poster boy; title: Humbugging prelude: Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford; title: Mitchell on the rise: it pays to advertise; title: PMC apotheosis: a tailor-made man; title: Conclusion: business as usual. Clarence: leading the U.S. safely into the 1920s; title: Freud and the PMC; title: O'Neill and psychological capital; title: Other cures for nerves: a look at the 20s; title: Postscript: the return of the tailor-made man.