Uncle Tom's Cabin on the American Stage and Screen (Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History)

Frick, John W.

Palgrave Macmillan（2012/11発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 308 p.／サイズ 22 b/w illus.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780230114074
• DDC分類 792.0973

基本説明

No play in the history of the American stage has been as ubiquitous and as widely viewed as Uncle Tom's Cabin. This book traces the major dramatizations of Stowe's classic from its inception in 1852 through modern versions on film. Frick introduces the reader the artists who created the plays and productions that created theatre history.

Full Description

No play in the history of the American stage has been as ubiquitous and as widely viewed as Uncle Tom's Cabin. This book traces the major dramatizations of Stowe's classic from its inception in 1852 through modern versions on film. Frick introduces the reader to the artists who created the plays and productions that created theatre history.

Contents

Halfway Between Sermon and Social Theory: The Mania for "Tom Mania" "There is No Arguing with Pictures": The Aiken/Howard Uncle Tom's Cabin "A Play to which No Apologist for Slavery Could Object": The Conway/Kimball/Barnum Uncle Tom's Cabin "O' It Was a Sight Worth Seeing": Uncle Tom Hits the Road Long Live Uncle Tom! Uncle Tom's Cabin in the Twentieth Century Uncle Tom in Middle Age: From a Stage Tradition to the Silver Screen Epilogue: The Story that Won't Stay Dead