Blue-collar Broadway : the craft and industry of American theater / / Timothy R. White

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910459700003321
• Autore: White Timothy R.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , 2015; ©2015
• ISBN: 0-8122-2364-0; 0-8122-9041-0
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (288 p.)
• Soggetti: Theater - New York (State) - New York - History; Theater - United States - History; Theaters - New York (State) - New York - Employees - History; Theaters - United States - Employees - History; Electronic books.; Broadway (New York, N.Y.) History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 “Second-Hand Rose” -- Chapter 2. “A Factory for Making Plays” -- Chapter 3. “Sing for Your Supper” -- Chapter 4 “Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’ ” -- Chapter 5. “Sunrise, Sunset” -- Chapter 6. “Every Day a Little Death” -- Chapter 7. “When the Money Keeps Rolling in You Don’t Ask How” -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments
• Sommario/riassunto: Behind the scenes of New York City's Great White Way, virtuosos of stagecraft have built the scenery, costumes, lights, and other components of theatrical productions for more than a hundred years. But like a good magician who refuses to reveal secrets, they have left few clues about their work. Blue-Collar Broadway recovers the history of those people and the neighborhood in which their undersung labor occurred. Timothy R. White begins his history of the theater industry with the dispersed pre-Broadway era, when components such as costumes, lights, and scenery were built and stored nationwide. Subsequently, the majority of backstage operations and storage were ; consolidated in New York City during what is now known as the golden age of musical theater. Toward the latter half of the twentieth century, decentralization and deindustrialization brought the emergence of nationally distributed regional theaters and performing arts centers. The resulting collapse of New York's theater craft economy rocked the theater district, leaving abandoned buildings and criminal activity in place of studios and workshops. But new technologies ushered in a new age of tourism and business for the area. The Broadway we know today is a global destination and a glittering showroom for vetted products. Featuring case studies of iconic productions such as Oklahoma! (1943) and Evita (1979), and an exploration of the craftwork of radio, television, and film production around Times Square, Blue-Collar Broadway tells a rich story of the history of craft and industry in American theater nationwide. In addition, White examines the role of theater in urban deindustrialization and in the revival of downtowns throughout the Sunbelt.

How Film Histories Were Made : Materials, Methods, Discourses / / ed. by Yvonne Zimmermann, Malte Hagener

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910831806603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , [2023]; 2023
• ISBN: 90-485-5457-8
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (530 p.)
• Collana: Film Culture in Transition
• Disciplina: 791.4309
• Soggetti: HISTORY / Historiography
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction: Unpacking Film History's Own Histories -- I Models of Film Historiography: Philosophy and Time -- 1 The Aporias of Cinema History -- 2 What Next? The Historical Time Theory of Film History -- 3 Relativist Perspectivism -- 4 The Discovery of Early Cinema -- II Film ; History in the Making: Processes and Agendas -- 5 Consistency, Explosion, and the Writing of Film History -- 6 Defeats that Were Almost Victories -- 7 A Film-maker's Film Histories -- 8 Hans Richter and the "Struggle for the Film History" -- III Revisiting Film History: Institutions, Knowledge, and Circulation -- 9 Historicizing the Gulf Moving Image Archives -- 10 British Cultural Studies, Film History, and Forgotten Horizons of Cultural Analysis -- 11 The Rise and Fall of Secular Realism -- 12 What Was a Film Society? -- IV Rewriting Film History with Images: Audiovisual Forms of Historiography -- 13 A Televisual Cinematheque Film Histories on West German Television -- 14 The History of Film on Film -- 15 Audiovisual Film Histories for the Digital Age -- V Into the Digital: New Approaches and Revisions -- 16 Future Pasts within the Dynamics of the Digital Present Digitized Films and the Clusters of Media Historiographic Experience -- 17 Tipping the Scales of Film History -- 18 Representing the Unknown -- Select Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This book is specifically dedicated to film history's own history: It provides insights into the fabrication of film histories and the discourses on their materials and methods in the past in order to better understand and reconsider film history today. The interventions unpack unspoken assumptions and hidden agendas that determine film historiography until today, also with the aim to act as a critical reflection on the potential future orientation of the field. The edited volume proposes a transnational, entangled and culturally diverse approach towards an archaeology of film history, while paying specific attention to persons, objects, infrastructures, regions, institutional fields and events hitherto overlooked. It explores past and ongoing processes of doing, undoing and redoing film history. Thereby, in a self-reflective gesture, it also draws attention to our own work as film historians.