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Branding Texas
Ask anyone to name an archetypal Texan, and you're likely to get a larger-than-life character from film or television (say John Wayne's Davy Crockett or J. R. Ewing of TV's Dallas) or a politician with that certain swagger (think LBJ or George W. Bush). That all of these figures are white and male and bursting with self-confidence is no accident, asserts Leigh Clemons. In this thoughtful study of what makes a \"Texan,\" she reveals how Texan identity grew out of the history—and, even more, the myth—of the heroic deeds performed by Anglo men during the Texas Revolution and the years of the Republic and how this identity is constructed and maintained by theatre and other representational practices. Clemons looks at a wide range of venues in which \"Texanness\" is performed, including historic sites such as the Alamo, the battlefield at Goliad, and the San Jacinto Monument; museums such as the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum; seasonal outdoor dramas such as Texas! at Palo Duro Canyon; films such as John Wayne's The Alamo and the IMAX's Alamo: The Price of Freedom; plays and TV shows such as the Tuna trilogy, Dallas, and King of the Hill; and the Cavalcade of Texas performance at the 1936 Texas Centennial. She persuasively demonstrates that these performances have created a Texan identity that has become a brand, a commodity that can be sold to the public and even manipulated for political purposes.
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Performance, exile and 'America'
\"This collection of essays investigates dramatic and performative renderings of 'America' as an exilic place, investigating how 'America' and exile are imagined, challenged and theatricalized in the works of various theatre artists in the light of the current political climate in the USA\"--Provided by publisher.
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Television’s Tortured Misfits: Authenticity, Method Acting, and Americanness in the Midcentury “Slice-of-Life” Anthology Drama
The realist anthology drama especially thrived under this critical consensus. Because of the constraints of time, budget, and studio space, early television productions were often small in scale and narrative scope. [...]Schreiber argued, television had a great potential for realism and/or naturalism, including with regard to fictional stories, and she applauded dramas that had been able to achieve this effect.3 This was a common critical position at the time, and several critics noted the ability of anthology dramas to fulfill this potential.
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Yellow Face (TCG Edition)
\"A pungent play of ideas with a big heart. Yellow Face brings to the national discussion about race a sense of humor a mile wide, an even-handed treatment and a hopeful, healing vision of a world that could be.\"-- Variety \"Charming, touching, and cunningly organized as well as funny, [with] an Ibsenite reach and stature far beyond any issues of Hwang's self-image.\"-- The Village Voice \"It's about our country, about public image, about face,\" says David Henry Hwang about his latest work, a mock documentary that puts Hwang himself center stage as it explores both Asian identity as well as race in America. The play begins with the 1990s controversy over color-blind casting for Miss Saigon, before it spins into a comic fantasy, in which the character DHH pens a play in protest and then unwittingly casts a white actor as the Asian lead. Yellow Face also explores the real-life investigation of Hwang's father, the first Asian American to own a federally chartered bank, and the espionage charges against physicist Wen Ho Lee. Adroitly combining the light touch of comedy with weighty political and emotional issues, \"Hwang's lively and provocative cultural self-portrait lets nobody off the hook\" ( The New York Times ). David Henry Hwang is the author of the Tony Award-winning M. Butterfly, a finalist for the 1988 Pulitzer Prize. Other plays include Golden Child, FOB, The Dance and the Railroad, and Family Devotions; his opera libretti include three works for composer Philip Glass. He was appointed by President Clinton to the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities.
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Performance, Identity, and Immigration Law
How has contemporary American theatre presented so-called undocumented immigrants? Placing theatre artists and their work within a context of on-going debate, Guterman shows how theatre fills an essential role in a critical conversation by exploring the powerful ways in which legal labels affect and change us.
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Colored Memories
Lester A. Walton was an African American journalist, cultural critic, diplomat, and political activist-an adviser to presidents and industrialists in a career that spanned the first six decades of the twentieth century. In this book, Curtis seeks to discover why Walton is forgotten today. In this unconventional book-a postmodern ghost story, an unprecedented experiment in life-writing-Curtis relates her frustrating search through long-overlooked documents to discover this forgotten man, offering insight into how America's obsession with race has made Walton's story unwelcome. She explores the treachery, duplicity, and archival accidents that transformed a man dedicated to the fulfillment of American democracy into a shadowy figure.
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Black Desire, Theatrical Jazz, and \River See\
The complexities of Black desire can be understood anew through the lens of theatrical jazz. The fluidity of time and space that characterizes theatrical jazz opens a space for a self-determined Black desire that is situated outside of prescriptions about what Black desire might be.
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Facing America
Facing America investigates and explains the changing face of America during the Civil War. Drawing on the literature as well as the photographs and political cartoons of the period, Shirley Samuels also explores the body of the nation imagined both physically and metaphorically, arguing that the Civil War marks a dramatic shift from identifying the American nation as feminine to identifying it as masculine.
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