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A Social History of British Performance Cultures 1900-1939 - Citizenship, surveillance and the body (Hardcover)
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A Social History of British Performance Cultures 1900-1939 - Citizenship, surveillance and the body (Hardcover)
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This book provides a new social history of British performance
cultures in the early decades of the twentieth century, where
performance across stage and screen was generated by dynamic and
transformational industries. Exploring an era book-ended by wars
and troubled by social unrest and political uncertainty, A Social
History of British Performance Cultures 1900-1939 makes use of the
popular material cultures produced by and for the industries -
autobiographies, fan magazines and trade journals, as well as
archival holdings, popular sketches, plays and performances. Maggie
B. Gale looks at how the performance industries operated,
circulated their products and self-regulated their professional
activities, in a period where enfranchisement, democratization,
technological development and legislation shaped the experience of
citizenship. Through close examination of material evidence and a
theoretical underpinning, this book shows how performance
industries reflected and challenged this experience, and explored
the ways in which we construct our 'performance' as participants in
the public realm. Suited not only to scholars and students of
British theatre and theatre history, but to general readers as
well, A Social History of British Performance Cultures 1900-1939
offers an original intervention into the construction of British
theatre and performance histories, offering new readings of the
relationship between the material cultures of performance, the
social, professional and civic contexts from which they arise, and
on which they reflect.
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