{"product_id":"performance-and-politics-in-popular-drama-aspects-of-popular-entertainment-in-theatre-film-and-television-1800-1976-paperback-9780521285247","title":"Performance and Politics in Popular Drama; Aspects of Popular Entertainment in Theatre, Film and Television, 1800–1976 (Paperback) 9780521285247","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003ePerformance and Politics in Popular Drama\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAspects of Popular Entertainment in Theatre, Film and Television, 1800–1976\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDavid Bradby (Edited by), Louis James (Edited by), Bernard Sharratt (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521285247, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 3 September 1981\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e344 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.3 x 2.2 cm, 0.528 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSince the beginning of the nineteenth-century, many forms of theatre have been called 'popular', but in the twentieth-century the term 'popular drama' has taken on definite political overtones, often indicating a repudiation of 'commercial theatre'. Does this mean that political theatre is or tries to be more attractive to more people than commercial theatre? Does it conversely mean that commercial theatre has no political effects? The articles in this book were submitted as papers for a conference on the theme of 'popular' theatre, film and television. Contributions came from people with very different types of experience: from an ex-animal trainer to a lecturer in film studies; from playwrights, directors and actors to professional critics and academics. Each author focused on a particular problem of defining drama in performance, drawing together the conditions of performance, the types of audience and the political effects of the plays or films in question. The result was a series of fruitful connections and juxtapositions that shows the remarkable continuity of the problems raised in attempts to create a popular political drama.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Spectacle, Performance and Audience in Nineteenth-Century Theatre: 1. Introduction Louis James\u003cbr\u003e 2. Was Jerrold's Black Ey'd Susan more popular than Wordsworth's Lucy? Louis James\u003cbr\u003e 3. Word and image in Pixérécourt's melodrama: the dramaturgy of the strip-cartoon W. D. Howarth\u003cbr\u003e 4. Joseph Bouchardy: a melodramatist and his public John McCormick\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Music of melodrama David Mayer\u003cbr\u003e 6. Popular theatre in Victorian Birmingham Douglas A. Reid\u003cbr\u003e 7. Water drama Derek Forbes\u003cbr\u003e 8. Equestrian drama and the circus Antony D. Hippisley Coxe\u003cbr\u003e 9. Theare of war: the Crimea on the London stage 1854–5 J. S. Bratton\u003cbr\u003e 10. Popular drama and the mummers' play A. E. Green\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Politics and Performance in Twentieth-Century Drama and Film: 11. Introduction David Bradby\u003cbr\u003e 12. Meyerhold and Eisenstein Nick Worrall\u003cbr\u003e 13. Erwin Piscator's 1927 production of Hoppla, We're Alive Martin Kane\u003cbr\u003e 14. Prolet Buehne: agit-prop in America Stuart Cosgrove\u003cbr\u003e 15. Worker's theatre 1926–36 Raphael Samuel\u003cbr\u003e 16. The October Group and the theatre under the Front Populaire David Bradby\u003cbr\u003e 17. Only the stars survive: disaster movies in the seventies Nick Roddick\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Problems and Prospects: 18. Introduction Bernard Sharratt\u003cbr\u003e 19. The politics of the popular? - from melodrama to television Bernard Sharratt\u003cbr\u003e Appendix\u003cbr\u003e Select bibliography\u003cbr\u003e General index\u003cbr\u003e Index of titles of plays, films, sketches\u003cbr\u003e Index of theatres, theatre companies and groups.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Theatre studies [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Theatre studies\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Theatre%20studies%20%5BAN%5D%22\"\u003eAN\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46004426670360,"sku":"9780521285247","price":30.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521285247i_82d839f7-f783-4906-8379-10ffb54d3533.jpg?v=1691374552","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/performance-and-politics-in-popular-drama-aspects-of-popular-entertainment-in-theatre-film-and-television-1800-1976-paperback-9780521285247","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}