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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777591003321

Autore

McConachie Bruce A

Titolo

American theater in the culture of the Cold War [[electronic resource] ] : producing and contesting containment, 1947-1962 / / Bruce McConachie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2003

ISBN

1-58729-447-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (365 p.)

Collana

Studies in theatre history & culture

Disciplina

792/.0973

792/.0973/0945

Soggetti

Theater - United States - History - 20th century

American drama - 20th century - History and criticism

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 (p. [301]-333) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 A Theater of Containment Liberalism; 2 Empty Boys, Queer Others, and Consumerism; 3 Family Circles, Racial Others, and Suburbanization; 4 Fragmented Heroes, Female Others, and the Bomb; Epilogue; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In this groundbreaking study, Bruce McConachie uses the primary metaphor of containment-what happens when we categorize a play, a television show, or anything we view as having an inside, an outside, and a boundary between the two-as the dominant metaphor of cold war theatergoing. Drawing on the cognitive psychology and linguistics of George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, he provides unusual access to the ways in which spectators in the cold war years projected themselves into stage figures that gave them pleasure.McConachie reconstructs these cognitive processes by relying