Transatlantic Broadway : the infrastructural politics of global performance /

Transatlantic Broadway traces the infrastructural networks and technological advances that supported the globalization of popular entertainment in the pre-World War I period, with a specific focus on the production and performance of Broadway as physical space, dream factory and glorious machine. In...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Schweitzer, Marlis (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Palgrave Macmillan, [2015]
Series:	Transnational theatre histories.
Subjects:	Theater > Production and direction. Theater > Philosophy. Material culture. PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
1. Networking the Waves: Ocean Liners, Impresarios, and Broadway's Atlantic Expansion
2. Along the Wires: Telegraphic Performances and the Wiring of Broadway
3. White Collar Broadway: Performing the Modern Office
4. ''My Word! How He is Kissing Her': The Material Culture of Theatrical Promotion
Epilogue: Transatlantic (Re)Crossings.