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  • Beyond Broadway

    The Pleasure and Promise of Musical Theatre Across America

    by Professor Stacy Wolf ...
    The idea of American musical theatre often conjures up images of bright lights and big city, but its lifeblood is found in amateur productions at high schools, community theatres, afterschool programs, summer camps, and dinner theatres. In Beyond Broadway, author Stacy Wolf looks at the widespread presence and persistence of musical theatre in U.S. culture, and examines it as a social practice--a ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Feminist Approaches in Musical Theatre

    by Paige Allen, Stacy Wolf ...
    Series series Topics in Musical Theatre
    How does a feminist spectator navigate misogynist representations of women?Musicals have always appealed to women as audience members and fans, even as most artists and producers were (and are) men.Feminist Approaches in Musical Theatre untangles these contradictions that are woven into the very fabric of this beloved, unapologetically commercial art form. This book offers a concise history of ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Changed for Good : A Feminist History of the Broadway Musical

    A Feminist History of the Broadway Musical

    by Stacy Wolf ...
    From Adelaide in "Guys and Dolls" to Nina in "In the Heights" and Elphaba in "Wicked" female characters in Broadway musicals have belted and crooned their way into the American psyche. In this lively book Stacy Wolf illuminates the women of American musical theatre - performers creators and characters -- from the start of the cold war to the present day creating a new feminist history of the genre ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Identities and Audiences in the Musical

    An Oxford Handbook of the American Musical, Volume 3

    Edited by Raymond Knapp, Mitchell Morris, Stacy Wolf ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Issues of identity have always been central to the American musical in all its guises. Who appears in musicals, who or what they are meant to represent, and how, over time, those representations have been understood and interpreted, provide the very basis for our engagement with the genre. In this third volume of the reissued Oxford Handbook of the American Musical, chapters focus on race, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Media and Performance in the Musical

    An Oxford Handbook of the American Musical, Volume 2

    Edited by Raymond Knapp, Mitchell Morris, Stacy Wolf ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    For the past several years, the American musical has continued to thrive by reflecting and shaping cultural values and social norms, and even commenting on politics, whether directly and on a national scale (Hamilton) or somewhat more obliquely and on a more intimate scale (Fun Home). New stage musicals, such as Come from Away and The Band's Visit, open on Broadway every season, challenging ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Changed for Good

    A Feminist History of the Broadway Musical

    by Stacy Wolf ...
    From Adelaide in "Guys and Dolls" to Nina in "In the Heights" and Elphaba in "Wicked," female characters in Broadway musicals have belted and crooned their way into the American psyche. In this lively book, Stacy Wolf illuminates the women of American musical theatre - performers, creators, and characters -- from the start of the cold war to the present day, creating a new, feminist history of the ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Histories of the Musical

    An Oxford Handbook of the American Musical, Volume 1

    Edited by Raymond Knapp, Mitchell Morris, Stacy Wolf ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The American musical is a paradox. On stage or screen, musicals at once hold a dominant and a contested place in the worlds of entertainment, art, and scholarship. Born from a mélange of performance forms that included opera and operetta, vaudeville and burlesque, minstrelsy and jazz, musicals have always sought to amuse more than instruct, and to make money more than make political change. In ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Beyond Broadway

    The Pleasure and Promise of Musical Theatre Across America

    by Stacy Wolf ...
    Narrated by Romy Nordlinger ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 10 min

    The idea of American musical theatre often conjures up images of bright lights and big city, but its lifeblood is found in amateur productions at high schools, community theatres, afterschool programs, summer camps, and dinner theatres. In Beyond Broadway, author Stacy Wolf looks at the widespread presence and persistence of musical theatre in US culture, and examines it as a social practice—a ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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  • Paris Is Burning

    A Queer Film Classic

    by Lucas Hilderbrand ...
    Series series Queer Film Classics
    Paris Is Burning (Jennie Livingston, 1991) captures the energy, ambition, wit, and struggle of African-American and Latino participants in the 1980s New York drag ball scene. This book contextualizes the film within the longer history of drag balls, the practices of documentary, the fervor of the culture wars, and the development of queer theory and critical race studies. ... Read more

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    The Director's Cut

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  • Queer Encyclopedia of Film and Television

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