
Theatre Across Oceans
Mediators of Transatlantic Exchange, 1890-1925
Nic Leonhardt(Author)
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Published on 16. September 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
XVI, 336 pages
978-3-030-76357-2 (ISBN)
Description
Theatre Across Oceans: Mediators Of Transatlantic Exchange
allows the reader to enter and understand the infrastructural 'backstage area' of global cultural mobility during the years between 1890 and 1925. Located within the research fields of global history and theory, the geographical focus of the book is a transatlantic one, based on the active exchange in this phase between North and South America and Europe. Emanating from a rich body of archival material, the study argues that this exchange was essentially facilitated and controlled by professional theatrical mediators (agents, brokers), who have not been sufficiently researched within theatre or historical studies. The low visibility of mediators in the scientific research is in diametrical contrast to the enormous power that they possessed in the period dealt with in this book.
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Series
Edition
2021 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Cham
Switzerland
Publishing group
Springer International Publishing
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
16 farbige Abbildungen, 4 s/w Abbildungen
XVI, 336 p. 20 illus., 16 illus. in color.
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 148 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
456 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-030-76357-2 (9783030763572)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-76355-8
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Book
09/2021
Palgrave Macmillan
€149.79
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Person
Nic Leonhardt
is Associate Professor of Theatre Studies at LMU Munich. Her research focuses on theatre history of the nineteenth and twentieth century and is strongly interdisciplinary and transnational in approach. Since 2016 she has been the senior researcher and associate director of the ERC (European Research Council) project "Developing Theatre" at LMU Munich, as well as director of the Centre for Global Theatre History.
Content
Chapter 1. Meandering (Theatre) Histories.- Chapter 2. "Transfer, Transmission, Translation" - of Countries, Oceans, News.- Chapter 3. Agencies Backstage, Bookings, Bureaucracy.- Chapter 4. Transatlantic Mediators of Theatre.- Chapter 5. Multifurcations: The Course and Decline of Transatlantic Theatre Flows during the First World War.- Chapter 6. Conclusion.