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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “dorothy chansky”
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  • Losing It

    Staging the Cultural Conundrum of Dementia and Decline in American Theatre

    by Dorothy Chansky ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This monograph is a study of American (U.S.) stage representations of dementia mounted between 1913 and 2019. Its imbricated strands are playtexts; audiences as both the targets of the productions (artifacts in the marketplace) and as anticipated determinants of legibility; and medical science, both as has been (and is) known to researchers and, more importantly, as it has been (and is) known to ... Read more

    $125.99 USD

  • Kitchen Sink Realisms

    Domestic Labor, Dining, and Drama in American Theatre

    by Dorothy Chansky ...
    Series series Studies Theatre Hist & Culture
    From 1918’s Tickless Time through Waiting for Lefty, Death of a Salesman, A Streetcar Named Desire, A Raisin in the Sun, and The Prisoner of Second Avenue to 2005’s The Clean House, domestic labor has figured largely on American stages. No dramatic genre has done more than the one often dismissively dubbed “kitchen sink realism” to both support and contest the idea that the home is naturally women ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Working in the Wings

    New Perspectives on Theatre History and Labor

    by Chrystyna Dail, Sara Freeman, Rosemarie K. Bank, Jonathan L Chambers, Dorothy Chansky, Tracey Elaine Chessum, Jerry Dickey, Elizabeth Reitz Mullenix, Melissa Rynn Porterfield, Tom Robson, AnnMarie T. Saunders, Max Shulman ...
    Series series Theater in the Americas
    Theatre has long been an art form of subterfuge and concealment. Working in the Wings: New Perspectives on Theatre History and Labor, edited by Elizabeth A. Osborne and Christine Woodworth, brings attention to what goes on behind the scenes, challenging, and revising our understanding of work, theatre, and history.Essays consider a range of historic moments and geographic locations—from African ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • Food and Theatre on the World Stage

    Edited by Dorothy Chansky, Ann Folino White ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    Putting food and theatre into direct conversation, this volume focuses on how food and theatre have operated for centuries as partners in the performative, symbolic, and literary making of meaning. Through case studies, literary analyses, and performance critiques, contributors examine theatrical work from China, Japan, India, Greece, Italy, France, Germany, England, the United States, Chile, ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

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  • Far From the Tree

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  • Normal Sucks

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  • The Cult of Personality Testing

    How Personality Tests Are Leading Us to Miseducate Our Children, Mismanage Our Companies, and Misunderstand Ourselves

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  • Depression

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  • In Our Prime

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    Now in paperback from New York Times reporter Patricia Cohen, a “lively, well-researched chronicle” (The New York Times Book Review) of the concept of middle age, from the nineteenth century to the present.The director behind the Hollywood close-up and the inventor of the “midlife crisis,” the doctors who promised to restore men’s sexual vigor with monkey gland transplants and the neuroscientists ... Read more

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