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OverviewPlease note this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title (PTO). Stock of this book requires shipment from an overseas supplier. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. This study analyses the history of puppet, mask, and performing object theatre in the United States over the past 150 years to understand how a peculiarly American mixture of global cultures, commercial theatre, modern-art idealism, and mechanical innovation reinvented the ancient art of puppetry. Full Product DetailsAuthor: John BellPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9781137286703ISBN 10: 1137286709 Pages: 280 Publication Date: 27 December 2012 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroductions The Sioux War Panorama and American Mythic History Masks and Shalako Puppets: Anthropology meets Indigenous Mask and Puppet Theater The Little Theater Movement and the Birth of the American Puppeteer Jane Heap and the International Theater Exhibition of 1926 Puppets and Propaganda Identity: Gertrude Stein's Puppet Show From Sorcery to Science: Remo Bufano and the 1939 World's Fair American Puppets and Television Kustom Kulture and Detroit Industrials: Cars as Performing Objects Landscape and Teeth Masks ACT-UP and the Puppetista Movement: Reinventing Activist Performance as Object Theater Mass Media and Motion CaptureReviews'In American Puppet Modernism, Bell presents a wide-ranging history of puppets and performing objects within a US socio-political context, contributing new insight into, and detailed analysis of, their roles in US society and theatre history. He simultaneously investigates and re-thinks the role of material objects on stage and in popular culture.' - Alissa Mello, Platform <br>***WINNER OF THE PRIX DE LA RECHERCHE FROM THE INSTITUT INTERNATIONAL DE LA MARIONNETTE!*** <p><br> Bell's survey is neither all-inclusive nor exhaustive but rather an in-depth examination of specific theater events, practitioners, and types of object performance (the Little Theater Movement, Remo Bufano, Bread and Puppet Theater) - a discussion that helps to contextualize the development of object performance into Bell's notion of 'puppet modernism.' Summing Up: Recommended - CHOICE <p> American Puppet Modernism deepens the discourse of performing objects in general while charting the uniquely American (re) discovery of the puppet.Not only is Bell's book an intriguing companion to the history of modern puppet performance, but is also benefits studies in radical street theatre, early avant-garde performance, and Kustom Kulture. - Robert J. Vrtis, University of Oregon, Theatre Journal <p> Brilliant writing! Bell manages to enlighten and enthrall us with a historical perspective on humanity's reliance on, as he calls it, 'the nature of the material world in performance' with insightful accuracy and new data while also challenging readers to consider daring contemporary influences. - Vincent Anthony, Director of the Center for Puppetry Arts, Atlanta <p><br> In this impressive and wide-ranging study, Bell reminds that we belittle puppets at our peril. A unique mixture of the mysterious and the funny, they can to be found at every corner of culture, from rituals to avant-garde performances and from high modernism to popular entertainment. This splendid book offers us nothing less than a fresh view of American culture. - Martin Puchner, H. Gordon Garbedian Chair of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University <p><br> The modernist puppet theatre's movement, from indigenous rituals to the Little Theatres to large political protests, proves to be a fascinating subject, which Bell animates with the expert knowl Author InformationJohn Bell is the Director of the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry at the University of Connecticut, USA. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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