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This book addresses a deceptively simple question: what accounts
for the global success of A Doll's House, Henrik Ibsen's most
popular play? Using maps, networks, and images to explore the world
history of the play's production, this question is considered from
two angles: cultural transmission and adaptation. Analysing the
play's transmission reveals the social, economic, and political
forces that have secured its place in the canon of world drama; a
comparative study of the play's 135-year production history across
five continents offers new insights into theatrical adaptation. Key
areas of research include the global tours of nineteenth-century
actress-managers, Norway's soft diplomacy in promoting gender
equality, representations of the female performing body, and the
sexual vectors of social change in theatre.
Aviation extended the horizon of international touring across Asia
and the Pacific in the 1950s and 1960s. Nightclubs in Hong Kong,
Manila, Melbourne, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, and Taipei presented
an international array of touring acts. This book investigates how
this happened. It explores the post-war formation of the Asia
Pacific region through international touring and the transformation
of entertainment during the 'jet age' of aviation. Drawing on
archival research across the region, Bollen investigates how
touring variety forged new relations between artists, audiences,
and nations. Mapping tours and tracing networks by connecting
fragments, he reveals how versatile artists translated repertoire
in circulation as they toured, and how entrepreneurial endeavours
harnessed the production of national distinction to government
agendas. He argues that touring variety on commercial circuits
diversified the repertoire in regional circulation, anticipating
the diversity emerging in state-sanctioned multiculturalisms, and
driving the government-construction of national theatres for
cultural diplomacy.
This book addresses a deceptively simple question: what accounts
for the global success of A Doll's House, Henrik Ibsen's most
popular play? Using maps, networks, and images to explore the world
history of the play's production, this question is considered from
two angles: cultural transmission and adaptation. Analysing the
play's transmission reveals the social, economic, and political
forces that have secured its place in the canon of world drama; a
comparative study of the play's 135-year production history across
five continents offers new insights into theatrical adaptation. Key
areas of research include the global tours of nineteenth-century
actress-managers, Norway's soft diplomacy in promoting gender
equality, representations of the female performing body, and the
sexual vectors of social change in theatre.
Aviation extended the horizon of international touring across Asia
and the Pacific in the 1950s and 1960s. Nightclubs in Hong Kong,
Manila, Melbourne, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, and Taipei presented
an international array of touring acts. This book investigates how
this happened. It explores the post-war formation of the Asia
Pacific region through international touring and the transformation
of entertainment during the 'jet age' of aviation. Drawing on
archival research across the region, Bollen investigates how
touring variety forged new relations between artists, audiences,
and nations. Mapping tours and tracing networks by connecting
fragments, he reveals how versatile artists translated repertoire
in circulation as they toured, and how entrepreneurial endeavours
harnessed the production of national distinction to government
agendas. He argues that touring variety on commercial circuits
diversified the repertoire in regional circulation, anticipating
the diversity emerging in state-sanctioned multiculturalisms, and
driving the government-construction of national theatres for
cultural diplomacy.
Multimedia Histories: From the Magic Lantern to the Internet is the
first book to explore in detail the vital connections between
today's digital culture and an absorbing history of screen
entertainments and technologies. Its range of coverage moves from
the magic lantern, the stereoscope and early film to the DVD and
the internet. By reaching back into the innovative media practices
of the nineteenth century, Multimedia Histories outlines many of
the revealing continuities between nineteenth, twentieth, and
twenty-first century multimedia culture. Comprising some of the
most important new work on multimedia culture and history by key
writers in this growing field, Multimedia Histories will be an
indispensable new sourcebook for the discipline. It will be an
important intervention in rethinking the boundaries of
Anglo-American film and media history.
This pioneering study harnesses virtual reality to uncover the
history of five venues that have been 'lost' to us: London's 1590s
Rose Theatre; Bergen's mid-nineteenth-century Komediehuset;
Adelaide's Queen's Theatre of 1841; circus tents hosting Cantonese
opera performances in Australia's goldfields in the 1850s; and the
Stardust showroom in 1950s Las Vegas. Shaping some of the most
enduring genres of world theatre and cultural production, each
venue marks a significant cultural transformation, charted here
through detailed discussion of theatrical praxis and
socio-political history. Using virtual models as performance
laboratories for research, Visualising Lost Theatres recreates the
immersive feel of venues and reveals performance logistics for
actors and audiences. Proposing a new methodology for using
visualisations as a tool in theatre history, and providing 3D
visualisations for the reader to consult alongside the text, this
is a landmark contribution to the digital humanities.
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