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A Social History of British Performance Cultures 1900-1939: Citizenship, surveillance and the body book cover

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A Social History of British Performance Cultures 1900-1939 Citizenship, surveillance and the body

By Maggie B. Gale Copyright 2020
256 Pages 42 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

256 Pages 42 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

256 Pages 42 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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... Read more

List of Figures  Acknowledgements  Introduction: A Social History of British Performance Cultures 1900-1939: citizenship, surveillance and the body  1. Performance cultures and the expansion, operation and circulation of the performance industries  2. Legislating citizenship: regulating publics, regulating performance  3. Strangers and cultural transgressors on stage and screen: representing the outsider, the foreigner and the poor  4. Performing espionage: surveillance, the uncanny and theatrical spies  5. Performing conflict: beyond the First World War   6. Corporeality and the body in performance: agency and degeneration  Bibliography  Index

Biography

Maggie B. Gale is Chair in Drama at the University of Manchester, UK. Coeditor of the Women, Theatre and Performance series, her recent publications include: Vivien Leigh: Actress and Icon (2018) with Kate Dorney (eds), and The Routledge Drama Anthology and Sourcebook: From Modernism to Contemporary Performance (2nd edition, 2016) with John F. Deeney.

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