Title
American puppet modernism : essays on the material world in performance / John Bell.
ISBN
9781403979810 (alk. paper)
1403979812 (alk. paper)
Publication Details
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Language
English
Description
xii, 280 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Call Number
PN1978.U6 B45 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification
791.5/380973
Summary
Playing with stuff: the material world in performance -- The Sioux war panorama and American mythic history -- Shalako puppets and nineteenth-century ritual -- The little theatre movement and the birth of the American puppeteer: Midwest puppet modernism -- New York puppet modernism: Remo Bufano and Jane Heap -- Puppets and propaganda: 1930s: Gertrude Stein's "Identity" -- From sorcery to science: Remo Bufano and World's Fair Puppet theatre -- Performing objects, special effects, and mass media -- Automobile performance and kustom kulture -- Beyond the Cold War: Bread and puppet theater at the end of the century -- Old and new materials: wood, paper, metal, plastic, bone.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series
Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history.
Introductions - The Sioux War Panorama and American Mythic History - Masks and Shalako Puppets: Anthropology meets Indigenous Mask and Puppet Theater - The Little Theater Movement and the Birth of the American Puppeteer - Jane Heap and the International Theater Exhibition of 1926 - Puppets and Propaganda - Identity: Gertrude Stein's Puppet Show - From Sorcery to Science: Remo Bufano and the 1939 World's Fair - American Puppets and Television - Kustom Kulture and Detroit Industrials: Cars as Performing Objects - Landscape and Teeth Masks - ACT-UP and the Puppetista Movement: Reinventing Activist Performance as Object Theater - Mass Media and Motion Capture.
