Body knowledge : performance, intermediality, and American entertainment at the turn of the twentieth century /

The performances and conceptions of art by women that emerged in American cities in the early 20th century were innovative, compelling, and deeply meaningful. This book examines these performances and the performers behind them, focusing particularly on the ways in which they negotiated turn-of-the-...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Simonson, Mary
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: Singing intermediality : Darktown, downtown
  • Choreographing Salome : re-creating the female body
  • Acting ancient : Hellenism, pageantry, and American modernity
  • Dancing music : Isadora Duncan and Wagnerism in the American imagination
  • Dancing pictures : Rita Sacchetto's Tanzbilder
  • Moving images : Adeline Genée and Bessie Clayton's danced histories
  • Filming opera : Anna Pavlova and The dumb girl of Portici
  • Finale: Performing intermediality in The passing show of 1913.